Elliot Page

We were like, "You should probably just start your own thing and fund it yourself.

If you're that passionate about the idea, you probably have the financial means to do so, given that you created The Matrix." So Lily Wachowski has made good on that promise, and it's interesting this comes at a time when, first of all, he has complained about not getting funding from major studios, but also Elliot Page has complained about not getting any roles after the success of The Odyssey.

There's some kind of trans representation recession happening in Hollywood where-

Well, as a, a short-

That happened way before Elon Musk

... whatever.

Um, and then they go on to praise Christopher Nolan for being a good trans ally by casting Elliot Page in The Odyssey.

And Lilly Wachowski, on that subject, says, "You've got to hand it to Christopher Nolan for casting Elliot in the first place.

Like...

It was great because I thought Elliot Page was terrible and phenomenal in the movie at the same time.

On the beach with the Trojan horse, I thought that was like, ugh.

But then there's this scene where Elliot Page is dead.

It's like a zombie.

And they're talking to Odysseus.

yeah.

That's Elliot Page, formerly known as Ellen Page.

Yes, I know this one.

Optimus Prime.

You know that one?

Yeah.

I mean, comic accurate short Wolverine is pretty small.

I mean, why not Elliot Page? You know, I'm just saying.

Future Academy Award winning.

I thought we were

He was great.

But everybody, even before they saw a frame of film, Oh, they cast Elliot Page.

Everyone said it first.

They cast Elliot Page as Achilles.

And Achilles isn't even in the Odyssey.

He died during Troy, like, you know, during the Iliad.

He was the guy who told Odysseus to fuck off near

the end of the film.

We get his point of view of the Trojan horse.

Because we have two different points of view of the Trojan horse, right? We have Menelaus' point of view of it, and then we have the character played by Elliot Page.

I don't know the name of that character.

citizen citizen something like that who the one who dies standing in front of it to protect it from the the uh the the trojans who

And so people come up, they draw a rod, and if the rod is a certain rod, then they are to go to Troy, and if it isn't, they stay behind.

And that's when we see Antinius in his first act as a disreputable jerk, which is when he pulls a rod that would send him to Troy.

He trades his rod with a poorer person, and that person would be played by Elliot Page later in the film.

At this point, it's just a young boy.

Exactly like Zelda.

See, this is the bit that was crazy with all the stuff with Elliot Page.

It feels like if you made the movie or something first, that the character model will be based on that person because it's ridiculous.

They misunderstood of...

Sorry, not that you should always cast.

Elliot Page being cast as Achilles when he wasn't, but just the fact that the actor in real life is trans is enough to be like, oh, their mate is bad

enough.

In the mythology, Achilles is very much like a twinkie.

We're nasty.

Okay, so if Elliot Page was in the restroom, you would be on your best behavior.

But if Hunter Schaefer's in there, you're going to be shitting your guts out and throwing your dick around?

I mean, maybe.

He is a huge character in that, and just take him out completely.

So we can blend his character in another character and turn him into Ellen Page.

Ah, okay.

That 12-year-old boy running down in her daddy's armor.