Elliot Page says reading Christopher Nolan's script for The Odyssey left him "breathless" — a reaction he compared to his first encounter with the script for Inception, the 2010 science-fiction thriller that marked their only previous collaboration.

Page made the remarks during an interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on 6 August 2026, where he discussed reuniting with Nolan on the upcoming epic. He described the screenplay as "complex, massive" and praised its "tremendous engine and heart that kept moving forward" (Rolling Stone).

The two last worked together on Inception, and Page told Fallon that being asked to return meant a great deal to him. He called Nolan's directing style "impeccable" and the film sets "focused." Nolan, in turn, said working with Page again was "really fun," calling the actor "terrific" and noting how much they had enjoyed the Inception shoot (Rolling Stone).

Page plays Sinon, an Ithacan soldier, in the film. The character does not appear in Homer's original Odyssey but does surface in Virgil's The Aeneid, the Roman epic poem written centuries later. Page also described performing practical stunts, including a sequence involving the Trojan Horse early in the story that he called a "classic Nolan" moment to shoot (Rolling Stone).

The Fallon appearance was not Page's first public discussion of the project. He also spoke about the film on The Daily Show with host Desi Lydic on 23 July 2026 (The Daily Show, YouTube), and as far back as October 2025 told People magazine that reuniting with Nolan "meant so much" to him (People).

The casting of Page and Lupita Nyong'o in The Odyssey drew online backlash led by Elon Musk, who threatened to produce an AI-generated, "historically accurate" adaptation of the ancient Greek epic in response (Rolling Stone). Page did not address the controversy during the Fallon interview, focusing instead on the script, the stunts and the working relationship with Nolan.

For Nolan, The Odyssey follows his Best Picture-winning Oppenheimer (2023) and represents a shift into classical myth. For Page, it is a return to a director who, sixteen years ago, handed him one of the defining roles of his career — and a script he says hit just as hard the second time around.