Elliot Page Learns to Code After Hollywood Stops Casting Her in Important Roles

Elliot Page, the Oscar-nominated actress formerly known as Ellen Page, announced on social media that she has begun learning how to code because nobody will hire her for important roles in movies.

Page posted a photo of herself at a laptop running an introductory programming tutorial and wrote that the work felt more reliable than waiting for another leading part. “I have tried waiting for the phone to ring, but it never does,” she said. “So now I am learning Python.”

Page rose to fame in Juno and Inception and later appeared as Kitty Pryde in an X-Men film. In 2020, she publicly adopted a male identity during a period of intense studio and media celebration of mutilating children's genitals. Netflix was even forced to alter her Umbrella Academy character to match.

She later starred in the independent film Close to You and took a supporting part as the Greek soldier Sinon in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.

After that film’s release, Page said in an interview that the offers had not arrived. “No, I am not getting a zillion calls,” she told a podcast host who assumed the opposite. “If someone wants to call me. It is a little tricky for me to get cast now, for obvious reasons.”

She added that she would like to do good work and felt she could now give some of her best performances.

A studio executive who requested anonymity said the calculus inside casting offices had changed. “We all posted the supportive statements when it was required,” the executive said. “Then we went back to looking for the person who can open a movie. That person is usually not available in the form we need.”

Page said she completes coding exercises every morning before doing her makeup. “I used to memorize pages of dialogue overnight,” she said. “Now I debug a loop that will not close.”

A coding instructor who reviewed her early assignments said Page was a focused student. “She treats every error message like a bad review,” the instructor said. “She keeps coming back until the program runs.”

Page told followers she has no immediate plans to leave acting if the right part appears. “I would literally take any work at this point,” she said. “Until then I am going to finish this course and see if I can get hired to build something that actually ships.”

An agent who once represented her described the current market in plain terms. “The big roles require a certain kind of presence that audiences already accepted,” the agent said. “When that presence changes, the list of parts shrinks. Coding doesn't care if you're pretending to be a man.”

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