![]() ![]() So, it seems like the environment is an ongoing concern of yours.Įllen Page: Yeah. You also voiced a documentary about, colony collapse with bees. So, it’s obviously extremely different, but the idea of living in an intentional community, living in a way that removes waste and encourages living in a cyclical way with the Earth, allowed for connection to doing this project.īrendan Francis Newnam: I don’t mean to suggest that you were a terrorist, but it just seemed like that this topic is of interest you. And, I really desired to have something sort of separate from this world that I work in, just for myself, and so I went to Oregon to this place called Las Valley and studied for my culture design and eco village development and you know it’s obviously very different because in The East obviously they’re very intense eco activists who believe ‘an eye for an eye’ justice and are obviously have violent intentions. You know, I had just finished a movie and I had had a busy sort of year too, with a lot of transition. And then to have it be about a lot of issues and topics that I personally am interested and think about of course makes me want to jump into a project like that this.īrendan Francis Newnam: Is it true you actually studied, permaculture design at an ecovillage in Eugene, Oregon? I know that that’s not the same as being in an eco terrorist cell, but, uh, take-, what was that experience like?Įllen Page: It was one of the most profound experiences of my life. ![]() I mean I was interesting for a variety of reasons to get a script that’s not just beautifully written and that is also relentlessly suspenseful and moving. Did you have any trepidation about playing such a political and provocative character?Įllen Page: That made me extremely interested. Ellen talks with Brendan about escaping to the woods (in real life), finding her characters’ voices, and hangin’ with Batman.īrendan Francis Newnam: In The East, you play Izzie, a member of an ecologically-minded anarchist collective that attacks major corporations. This month, she appears as Izzy, a member of an eco-anarchist cell with vengeful intentions, in the provocative thriller The East. Actress Ellen Page broke out with the 2007 hit Juno and has gone to star in a roster of impressive titles from To Rome with Love and Super to the blockbusters Inception and the X-Men series. ![]()
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