Any actor will tell you that auditioning is the worst part of the job. The whole awkward, vulnerable experience is only made worse when you have to submit an audition tape—usually a straight-on shot of you standing in an empty room, reading lines to no one from a scene you’ve probably read once before. Frankly, the…
By now it’s safe to assume every female actor in Hollywood has experienced harassment—actually, just assume every female everywhere—but it’s always more helpful to hear it from them directly, in dispiriting detail. This afternoon Ellen Page joined the fray with a lengthy Facebook post sharing her experiences working…
Earlier this year, Netflix announced that it would be supplementing its Marvel superhero shows with an adaptation of Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s Dark Horse superhero comic The Umbrella Academy, and now the show has found one of its stars. As reported by Variety, Ellen Page has joined the cast as Vanya, the “black…
“Moving to Canada” has become a common response for many Americans looking to escape the United States’ political ails. But, in the video above, native Canadian Ellen Page notes that there are many problems the country is currently facing that parallel problems in the U.S., including dealing with their own legions of…
Kate Mara and her husband Jamie Bell are not-so-secretly obsessed with The Real Housewives series. Mara recently met Dorinda Medley from the New York branch of the franchise, and, in the video above, tells us what that experience was like.
Back in 1990, Flatliners made a bit of a splash (grossing the equivalent of $114 million today) largely due to historical accident: It happened to be audiences’ first opportunity to see Julia Roberts after Pretty Woman made her an instant superstar. As psychological horror, the movie didn’t quite work, squandering a…
In their new film, My Days Of Mercy, Kate Mara and Ellen Page play lovers on the opposite ends of the political spectrum: Page is Lucy, a woman who is vehemently opposed to the death penalty, while Mara’s Mercy is in support of it. In the video above, we sat down with Mara, Page, and Amy Seimetz, who plays Lucy’s…
It’s the question that has haunted humankind, plagued our philosophers, and inspired countless works of art, intellect, and science, all while inspiring our greatest minds to look beyond the rational world: Why can’t we make up our minds about remakes? Actually, the question is, “What happens to you after you die?,”…
Who she is: Shadowcat, a.k.a. Kitty Pryde
TMZ has posted footage of openly gay actress Ellen Page on the streets of Washington D.C. this morning, listening to the words of an anti-gay street preacher, and then responding calmly to his rants. From the presence of co-star Ian Daniel—and a multi-person camera crew—it’s pretty clear that Page was talking to the…
One of the standout shows from Vice Media’s new channel Viceland is Gaycation. The documentary series follows host and executive producer Ellen Page as she and her best friend Ian Daniel travel the world in an effort to wrap their heads around the LGBT experience in various countries. The four-episode first season…
Ellen Page and Kate Mara are taking their real-life friendship to new heights, starring beside one another in the upcoming romantic drama Mercy, according to Variety. The Oscar-nominated Juno star will play the daughter of a man on death row who winds up falling in love with a woman (played by House Of Cards’ Mara) on…
What would become of American society if the power were to go out permanently nationwide? Odds are we’d be looking at a fairly apocalyptic scenario—something like The Stand, perhaps, except with most people killed by a battle for dwindling resources rather than by a superflu. The new drama Into The Forest, however,…
Things start off pretty rough for Ellen Page in this trailer for the new Netflix original movie Tallulah, what with her sleeping in a van and asking the mother of her ex-boyfriend for money, but it steadily gets worse as the trailer goes on. Oh sure, she seems a little happier and a little more stable as she hangs out…
Here’s the first official trailer for Into The Forest, a Canadian film starring Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood as sisters fighting to survive at the end of the world. Written and directed by Patricia Rozema, Into The Forest is an adaptation of Jean Hegland’s novel of the same title. The trailer lacks the usual…
“Everyone was waiting for you to come out,” a fan tells Ellen Page in the finale of Viceland’s Gaycation. Page and her best friend and Gaycation travel companion Ian Daniel are at New York City’s pride parade, days after the U.S. Supreme Court decided in favor of marriage equality. “Myself as well,” Page replies with…
Viceland, Vice Media’s new Spike Jonze-led 24-hour TV network, has announced the original slate of shows for its upcoming February 29 debut. With a focus on culture, the roster of programs runs the gamut from embedded reporting, to food journalism, to weed etiqutte, to LGBT issues, and then back to food again.…
As reported by Variety, Ellen Page is in talks to star in a reboot of Flatliners, the 1990 sci-fi thriller that starred Kiefer Sutherland and Julia Roberts. In the original, Sutherland played a medical school student who wanted to learn more about the afterlife, so he dragged his friends in to help with an experiment…
Based on a rousing true story, Freeheld focuses on a dying woman crusading for gay rights, and features an imposing cast of Oscar nominees. But it doesn’t quite feel like the prestige pictures that blow through theaters this time of year; it’s a drama often dignified by its workmanlike approach, one that feels…
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Arriving in select theaters Friday, The End Of The Tour belongs to a fine tradition of movies that feature little more than two actors gabbing at each other. We’ve lined up five days of the same, recommending…
