{"id":1133462,"date":"2026-08-06T08:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1133462\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T08:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:07:17","slug":"elliot-page-reflects-on-being-in-christopher-nolans-the-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1133462\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliot Page Reflects on Being in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tElliot Page<\/a> compared reading Christopher Nolan<\/a>\u2018s script for The Odyssey<\/a> to reading Inception for the first time. During an interview on The Tonight Show<\/a>, the actor reflected on what it was like to be part of both those films, saying The Odyssey<\/a> made him \u201cbreathless.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy first reaction, honestly, it was similar to reading the script to Inception,\u201d Page told host Jimmy Fallon<\/a>. \u201cI really was just left breathless. Really blown away by something that was so complex, so massive, and with this tremendous engine and heart that just kept moving forward. It just really blew me away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added of working with Nolan for the second time, \u201cI felt so fortunate to be asked to come back and to be part of something this epic and incredible as this. It was just such a gift.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tPage described Nolan\u2019s directing style as \u201cimpeccable,\u201d saying his sets are \u201cfocused.\u201d \u201cYou can just only be present and his direction will always just be so concise and just perfect,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPage plays the character of Sinon, an Ithacan soldier, in the film. The actor described doing practical stunts, including one involving the Trojan Horse early in the story that he called a \u201cclassic Nolan\u201d moment to shoot. Sinon notably doesn\u2019t appear in Homer\u2019s original text of The Odyssey, but does appear in Virgil\u2019s The Aeneid. <\/p>\n

\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n

\n\tNolan recently called working with Page again \u201creally fun.\u201d \u201cElliot\u2019s just terrific,\u201d Nolan said in an interview<\/a>. \u201cI just thought this was such a great part for him. We had such a great time years ago on Inception. It\u2019s nice to reunite with people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPage has been broadly praised in reviews for the film, although that hasn\u2019t stopped right-wing backlash to his performance. Even before the movie was released, Elon Musk led the online rage about<\/a> the casting of Page and Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong\u2019o, who plays Helen of Troy. Musk has since threatened to create<\/a> an entirely AI-generated, \u201chistorically accurate,\u201d adaptation of\u00a0The\u00a0Odyssey.\u00a0That is, of course, completely unnecessary as Nolan\u2019s version has broken box office records and caused an ongoing ticket frenzy<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elliot Page compared reading Christopher Nolan\u2018s script for The Odyssey to reading Inception for the first time. During…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1133463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3937],"tags":[42315,290963,77,7845,112406,56531,106239,382,16,15],"class_list":["post-1133462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-elliot-page","tag-entertainment","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-late-night-tv","tag-the-odyssey","tag-the-tonight-show","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117047541597210044","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1133463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}