Ellen Page: Hanging with Leo and keeping it real
Gayle MacDonald, Globe & Mail, July 9, 2010
When Paul Gross was filming Wilby Wonderful, he slipped into a crowded room to catch a scene with Ellen Page - the then-16-year-old Haligonian with whom he shared very little screen time, but had been hearing a lot about. “I remember watching her work, and being utterly mesmerized, thinking she’s one in a million,” says Gross. “Such a rarity. An absolute natural. And I remember also thinking ‘I can’t wait to see how her career unfolds.’ ”
Pretty darn well.
So well, in fact, it sounds almost apocryphal: First there were those juicy roles in psychologically wrought indie films - The Tracey Fragments, Hard Candy, An American Crime. Then came the kudos (that nice Oscar nom for Juno) and the celeb BFFs (Drew Barrymore, for one, who recruited her for Whip It). And, yes, she’s even done the superhero thing as a five-foot-nothing Kitty Pryde in X-Men: The Last Stand.
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When Paul Gross was filming Wilby Wonderful, he slipped into a crowded room to catch a scene with Ellen Page - the then-16-year-old Haligonian with whom he shared very little screen time, but had been hearing a lot about. “I remember watching her work, and being utterly mesmerized, thinking she’s one in a million,” says Gross. “Such a rarity. An absolute natural. And I remember also thinking ‘I can’t wait to see how her career unfolds.’ ”
Pretty darn well.
So well, in fact, it sounds almost apocryphal: First there were those juicy roles in psychologically wrought indie films - The Tracey Fragments, Hard Candy, An American Crime. Then came the kudos (that nice Oscar nom for Juno) and the celeb BFFs (Drew Barrymore, for one, who recruited her for Whip It). And, yes, she’s even done the superhero thing as a five-foot-nothing Kitty Pryde in X-Men: The Last Stand.
(Rest of the article...)