Ellen Page Calls Out Hollywood’s Gay Double Standard
“I look at all the things I’ve done in movies: I’ve drugged a guy, tortured someone, become a roller-derby star overnight. But now I’m gay, I can’t play a straight person?” – Ellen Page
“I look at all the things I’ve done in movies: I’ve drugged a guy, tortured someone, become a roller-derby star overnight. But now I’m gay, I can’t play a straight person?” – Ellen Page
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rngdJ-aDvog Two of the coolest guys around, Hugh Jackman and Peter Dinklage, did a Tumblr chat while they were making the rounds of X-Men: Days of Future Past promotion. In the video, they get asked questions by fans and cast members (Patrick Stewart, Ellen Page and more) and it’s
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Despite reaching super fame after starring in the movie Juno, Ellen Page doesn’t feel that people are hounding her to be in their films.
Go back one hundred years and the only options actors had to display their craft were the theater and the still-in-its-infancy movies. Radio and television opened up more opportunities in the following decades, and more recently the internet has allowed actors to show their work instantly on a worldwide scale.
Ellen Page is no longer being typecast as the quirky, awkward girl she played in Juno.
The Oscar-nominated actress is playing a seductress in the new Woody Allen movie, To Rome With Love. Although the role was a departure for the actress, Page was intrigued by the script.