Why Ellen Page loves horror when she can’t stand gore
To mainstream viewers, Ellen Page is probably best known as the eerily composed star of the revenge-horror movie Hard Candy, the roller-derby movie Whip It, or the teen-pregnancy dramedy Juno, which earned her Best Actress nominations at the Oscars and Golden Globes. But for genre fans, she’s earned her fame in different ways, as Kitty Pryde in X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Days of Future Past, and as one of the stars of Christopher Nolan’s Inception. She’s been in big, terrible blockbusters like Flatliners and terrific little Indies like Tallulah, but there’s a familiar theme to her movies: she seeks out roles where vulnerable, struggling women take decisive action, where her characters don’t let their fears control their lives.
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