Elliot Page Was in a $1.8B Hit. Why Won't Hollywood Hire Him?

July 2026. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey opens around the world and makes $1.79 billion, more than double Inception. One of the first faces you see belongs to Elliot Page. Six weeks later, a film critic asked him if the calls were pouring in. "No, Kevin, I'm not," he said. No offers. No role lined up. Online, plenty of people are sure they know why: he came out as trans, and "nobody casts a five-foot-one leading man." So is Elliot Page's career really over? This is the full story: Halifax and Trailer Park Boys, Hard Candy, Juno and an Oscar nomination at 20, the quiet years after it, coming out twice (2014 and 2020), the backlash, The Umbrella Academy, Pageboy, Close to You, the Achilles rumour and the height argument, the reviews of The Odyssey, and what he is building now. CHAPTERS 0:00 Nobody called 0:58 The kid from Halifax 1:40 Juno 3:10 The quiet years 4:37 Coming out, twice 7:00 The backlash 8:14 The quiet after 9:25 The height question 10:42 The Odyssey 11:43 The verdict KEY SOURCES On Film with Kevin McCarthy (Sep 2026):    • New Elliot Page interview on The Odyssey, ...   TIME cover story (Mar 2021): https://time.com/5947032/elliot-page-2/ Variety on the casting calls (2026): https://variety.com/2026/film/news/el... Variety review of The Odyssey: https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews... Empire on his performance: https://www.empireonline.com/movies/f... Nolan to Rolling Stone UK: https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/film/t... Nolan on the casting backlash (Deadline): https://deadline.com/2026/07/christop... The Daily Wire (Sep 2026): https://www.dailywire.com/news/elliot... NPR on Pageboy: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/11804... Esquire (2022): https://www.esquire.com/entertainment... Netflix Top 10 (Season 3): https://www.netflix.com/tudum/top10/t... Box Office Mojo, The Odyssey: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/t... Bell Media and PAGEBOY Productions: https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/pre... GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index 2025: https://glaad.org/sri/2025/executive-... Plus NBC News, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, People, CBC and TheWrap. FOOTAGE Universal Pictures (The Odyssey trailers), Fox Searchlight (Juno), Warner Bros. (Inception), 20th Century Fox (X-Men: The Last Stand), Lionsgate (Hard Candy, Freeheld), Sony Pictures (Flatliners, To Rome with Love), A24 (Into the Forest), IFC (Super, The Cured, the Independent Spirit Awards), Signature (My Days of Mercy), Greenwich Entertainment (Close to You), Netflix (The Umbrella Academy, Tallulah, There's Something in the Water), Apple TV+ (The Oprah Conversation), Showcase (Trailer Park Boys), ABC News and Good Morning America, the 80th Academy Awards (ABC), CBS News, NBC (TODAY, Nightly News, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon), Comedy Central (The Daily Show), Entertainment Tonight, MTV News, Viceland, WION, the Human Rights Campaign and On Film with Kevin McCarthy. Used for commentary, criticism and news reporting. PHOTOS (Wikimedia Commons) Elliot Page: Philip Romano (CC BY-SA 4.0), Colleen Sturtevant (CC BY-SA 4.0), Frypie (CC BY-SA 4.0), Library of Congress Life (CC0), Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 2.0), greg2600 (CC BY-SA 2.0), Courtney (CC BY 2.0) · Christopher Nolan, Tom Holland, Samantha Morton: Philip Romano (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Diablo Cody: Josh Jensen (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Brett Ratner: David Shankbone (CC BY 3.0) · Anna Paquin, Ben Shapiro: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Jordan Peterson: Elekes Andor (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Kevin Hart: Eva Rinaldi (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Elon Musk: Steve Jurvetson (CC BY 2.0) · Halifax: Daeva Trạc (CC BY-SA 4.0) · TIFF Bell Lightbox: Mathew5000 (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Dolby Theatre: dconvertini (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Netflix HQ: Coolcaesar (CC BY-SA 3.0). The Brett Ratner and Pageboy stories in this video are Elliot Page's own accounts; Anna Paquin said she was there when the Ratner comment was made. Page has never said outright why he isn't being cast. His height is a commonly listed figure, not an official one, and his screen time in The Odyssey is a press estimate. Box-office figures: Box Office Mojo; streaming figures: Netflix. Spotlight Them: the biggest stories in pop culture, told in full. Subscribe for celebrities, creators, movies and TV, from the headline moment to everything that happened after. #ElliotPage #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan