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2010 Appearances Updated

Celyn — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:46:31 +0000

Hi everyone! I’m Celyn, and I’m very happy to say that the lovely Holly has allowed me to hop on board here at The Ellen Pages – I can’t wait to get started! So, as a welcome gift to you all, I’ve added more pictures of Ellen at the Super Comic-Con Panel, as well as pictures from the Inception World Premiere and over 250 from the Inception LA Premiere! I absolutely loved her green dress. More updates asap!

Ellen at Comic Con

Holly — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:06:39 +0000

Ellen attended Comic Con this past weekend to promote Super.

‘Hard Candy’ to hit Blu Ray in October.

Holly — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:07:28 +0000

One of Ellen’s older roles as Haley Stark, a girl who tortures a man she believes is a pedophile, is scheduled to hit blu ray this October. Thanks to High Def Digest we can share this news with you.

Specs haven’t been revealed yet, but supplements for the psychological thriller ‘Hard Candy,’ starring Ellen Page and Patrick Wilson, will include: Two audio commentaries with filmmakers and actors, Deleted and extended scenes, Making-of documentary, and Controversial Confection featurette

Ellen on Craig Ferguson

Michelle — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:15:55 +0000

Ellen was on Craig Ferguson July 16 and I’ve posted a video below. I’ll post some screencaptures later on.

Collider Interview with Ellen

Holly — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:38:48 +0000

Ellen Page Video Interview INCEPTION; TILDA, SUPER, FREEHELD – Click here for more free videos

Another interview with Ellen about ‘Inception’

Holly — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:37:37 +0000

Here is a snippet of the interview conducted, to read more of the article and interview, please visit Telegraph

Page is much plainer when talking about working with DiCaprio. ‘Leo is a f– movie star,’ she says emphatically. ‘It was really insane to be in a place like Morocco in an area that seems semi-abandoned and have people yelling, “Leo, Leo,” ’ she says. ‘I was maybe 10 or 11 when I saw Titanic. And, yes, I was a fan. I loved it.

And I think I maybe even had a picture of Leo in my locker at school. Shh – don’t tell anyone!’

Page was already acting herself by then; she was cast in Pit Pony, a film for Canadian television, at 10 years old and continued to work throughout her school years.

At 17 she played the lead role in Hard Candy, a cult hit in which Page’s 14-year-old character turns the tables on a paedophile. It was a hard-hitting and critically acclaimed performance. (It’s also the film that caught the attention of Jason Reitman, who directed Juno.)

‘I think of some of the things they’ve allowed me to do,’ Page says of her parents, ‘and I think, “Wow.” When I was 16 my parents let me live alone in Europe [to film Mouth to Mouth], and I may have had wine once in a while. I may leave out some details about some experiences,’ she says with a laugh.

Video: Ellen lived in a haunted brothel

Holly — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:34:31 +0000

Ellen Talks ‘Inception’

Holly — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:32:56 +0000

Q: It seems to me the film’s core is the notion that thoughts can transform and even destroy you.

A: And they can perpetuate our personal suffering. And the elusiveness of all love. Sure, shooting this movie made me think more about my dreams. But what “Inception” made me think of more, especially because of books I was reading at the time, is my awake world and the elusiveness of all life. My own, individual perspective and the thoughts I’m creating for myself. Definitely a bit of an existential-crisis-esque time, but I’m in my early 20s, so … (laughs)

Q: Were there times you had trouble tracking the four levels of subconsciousness in the climax?

A: Of course. But Chris could answer pretty much any question I had. When you’re getting into multiple levels and projection – luckily, my character is the newbie who is asking all the questions like, “Whose subconscious are we going into, again? Because I’m fricking lost.” On the day (of shooting), that’s a really crazy moment and you don’t think of that having any humor in it. But watching it with an audience, that gets a lot of laughs because everyone’s like, “Thank you!”

Q: Weren’t you a little jealous you didn’t get the tumbling-hotel fight?

A: You know what? I was. I want to say it delicately because that was so much pain for Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), and a lot of training. I’m sure there were days when he was not letting on just how exhausted he was and how much pain he was in because he’s such a rad dude. … But I love that stuff. I was always an athlete when I was a kid. When I got to watch Joe do some of it, I was blown away. It’s like something that’s never been in a movie before. To shoot such an insane action sequence, so practically (in-camera with no visual effects) – that’s mind-blowing.

Q: So what is behind this great passion of yours for bees?

A: They’re absurdly selfless, they supply us with at least one-third of our food – they’re pollinators – and they’re disappearing, as I think is pretty commonly known now. Without bees, we’re basically dead. It can be explained, it’s just that pesticide companies don’t want to allow it to be explained. I got to be involved with these lovely people who made this wonderful documentary, “Vanishing of the Bees”; I narrated it.

There’s this image in the film – it shows how a bee performs on a healthy flower. It’s stunningly gorgeous. Then it shows a bee on a flower that’s been sprayed and it’s absolutely heartbreaking. I was so moved by this poor bee that was so confused, lost, couldn’t even grasp onto the flower. In France, farmers banded together because they knew it was a specific pesticide, and they got it banned. And here, the discussion isn’t even open.

Read more: San Fransisco Gate

Ellen dreams big

Holly — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:31:09 +0000

These days, the term “young Hollywood” conjures up images of pouty, plastic starlets being chased down Robertson Boulevard by paparazzi and probation officers, but recently the soulful side of young Hollywood made an appearance at a corner deli on Franklin Avenue. “Hi Joe,” Ellen Page said with a faraway smile as Joseph Gordon-Levitt gave her a hug.

Page and Gordon-Levitt are costars in Christopher Nolan’s “Inception,” the perception-bending heist movie that opens July 16 amid high expectations and strong early reviews. Leonardo DiCaprio leads an extremely deep cast — there are seven Oscar nominees in the film — but Nolan says that Page and Gordon-Levitt more than held their own. “They were simply outstanding,” the director said last year on the London set, “their performances are key to the film and some of the best work I’ve seen.”

But more than their work in any single film, Gordon-Levitt and Page are interesting because, in an era when vacuous celebrity and recycled concepts are ascendant, they are talented actors of serious ambition. Of course, both of them roll their eyes at the expectations and even pretensions that come bundled with that sort of statement — but they also talk freely and articulately about their frustrations with media of the moment and the paradoxes of stardom.

Page, a Nova Scotia native with bird bones and a steady gaze, made her screen debut at age 10 in a Canadian television movie and turned 23 a week after this last Valentine’s Day. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as a pregnant high school student in the 2007 film “Juno” and before that startled audiences in the 2005 movie “Hard Candy,” in which she portrayed a teenager who traps and tortures a man she suspects is a sexual predator.

To read more of this article, visit LA Times Blog

Ellen Has Vivid Dreams.

Holly — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:09:50 +0000

ELLEN PAGE struggled to differentiate between dreams and reality as a chi ld, because she suffered from “incredibly vivid” sleep hallucinations.
The Oscar-nominated actress would regularly wake up in the halls of hot els after a bout of sleepwalking and be convinced she had seen a range of bizarre items – including a deep freeze.
And the Juno star admits she found her dreamlike states “scary” – becau se she was never sure if she was still dreaming or awake.
She tells Britain’s Sunday Times, “I guess you’d call them night halluc inations. I’ve often found myself sleepwalking and waking up in halls of hotels. If someone saw me, they would think I was awake, but I am seeing something else and I am communicating with it, whether it is a person or where I see something as obscure as a bird’s nest or bugs. And, one time, there a deep freeze in my room.
“It feels real to me and it is incredibly vivid. Luckily, it is happeni ng less as I get older, because when I was a kid it was scary. It created a lot of existential dilemma, because you start having these questions, like, ‘Is this person really perceiving me?’ Nobody can ever say anything to me to convince me they really exist, because who knows? It has never fully gone away, although, luckily, I can’t recall when last it happened.

Source: PR Inside