Elliot Page reveals the change he’s seen working for Christopher Nolan since transitioning
Elliot Page and Christopher Nolan are working together again for The Odyssey after 16 years apart.
Page first starred in a Nolan film in 2010’s Inception, appearing as Ariadne, the graduate student recruited by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Dom Cobb. It’s ironic that Page’s character was named after a Greek myth because almost 20 years on he is reuniting to play Sinon in the film, the cousin of Odysseus.
In that time the Umbrella Academy and Juno actor has revealed that he is a transgender man, even going viral recently for his stacked new physique after taking up boxing.
Page has spoken about how working for Nolan was different this time round and how this was in part influenced by his transition.
Page said The Odyssey meant ‘so much more to him’
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In 2025, Page spoke about The Odyssey during a Comic-Con panel with Josh Horowitz alongside James McAvoy to discuss X-Men: Days of Future Past, saying: “I was so excited to be thought of and to be asked to come back to work him.”
The actor said that he had ‘loved’ working with Nolan on Inception, and being part of the iconic film.
He added: “I was just completely jazzed and excited, and basically went and met with Chris and talked about the part, then sat in a room and read the script. It was such a joy to come back.”
Page then explained that, now that he has transitioned, working on the project was even better than working on Inception.
He explained: “To come back now, as you can imagine, being more comfortable in yourself makes these sorts of projects more enjoyable. “To get to have a Chris Nolan experience again now meant so much to me selfishly.”
Page trolled alongside Lupita Nyong’o and Travis Scott
The Odyssey has been a surprising site of hate online, particularly focused on the casting of Page along with Lupita Nyong’o and Travis Scott’s small acting role in the film. He has also produced an original song, continuing his collaboration with Nolan from Tenet.
The majority of this hate online has been based in transphobia and racism, suggesting that the film is ‘historically inaccurate’ in their portrayal of people who did not exist and are mythological figures rather than real people.
This has forced The Odyssey’s X account to disable comments on certain posts due to trolling from right wing accounts. X's owner, Elon Musk, has even fired his own criticism at the casting.
Speaking exclusively to LADbible Joel Christensen, Professor of Classics and Provost of the CUNY Graduate Center has written a new book on The Odyssey. On the casting controversies the academic said: “I think people labor under the misconception that the Homeric epics represent historical people and historical events.
"Ancient audiences knew that the events happened during the mythical race of heroes. They assume that racial categories from the modern world map onto the ancient world. This is not the case. The Homeric epics also are very cagey about visual descriptions of any of the figures.”
All in all, if you’re complaining about ‘realism’ in a fake story about a Greek warrior interacting with gods and monsters, you should probably get outside more. Even if you’re the world’s richest man.
The Odyssey is available to watch in cinemas 17 July.
Topics: Christopher Nolan, Elliot Page, Film, LGBTQ
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