Or something else obscure. The New York Times has a nice little article on Ellen Page, being just a girl from Halifax. “I always want to dress up like an animal or something really obscure, like a carrot or a wrench… That would be awesome.”

Ellen Page is becoming more noticeable in the United States and her popularity will surely only rise more after Juno is released in a few weeks. Check out the very nice article from the Los Angeles Times about Ellen Page going from indie to mainstream. “I do what I do and obviously some people don’t like it and then there’s certain people that have responded well to different performances and it’s just — it’s a weird thing. It’s something I can’t really describe. It’s something I feel like is already there, you know? It’s just about finding...

Ellen Page stars in The Tracey Fragments, an experimental film by Bruce McDonald about a teenager whose life is falling apart, gets bullied around at school and is an outsider. Page can related and feels compassion for a fearless girl like Tracey: “If you’re at all different you’re judged for it” “I get judged for wearing friggin’ jeans and T-shirts. People judge me in a variety of ways just because of the way I dress or the way I carry myself. I don’t care.” “From a young age, girls are so socialized to be this one thing. People can just...

The Envelope has an interview with Ellen Page about the movie “Juno” from her home in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Among the more interesting points, Ellen discusses how she was like Juno at her age: I was like Juno when I was younger in certain ways, as were my friends. Sixteen-year-old girls do wear sweater vests and flannel shirts, and that’s OK. It’s so annoying when you’re constantly being told what you’re supposed to enjoy and what you’re supposed to find sexy and how you’re supposed to be, and so on and so forth. I think a film like “Juno,”...

“I read the script a couple years ago, and I really connected to this girl” “She was like a lot of people I know, but branching away from that common stereotype (of shallow, silly teens) in popular media. Pretty much all I wanted was to play Juno — I was kind of obsessive about it.”