Elliot Page’s Mystery Role in ‘The Odyssey’ Has Finally Been Solved, and It’s Not Who Anyone Expected
Christopher Nolan has made a career out of keeping audiences guessing, and his upcoming epic ‘The Odyssey’ has been no exception. Since the film’s initial announcement in December 2024, Nolan has kept fans in a state of deliberate uncertainty, revealing just enough to keep the internet spinning. The enormous ensemble assembled for this mythic adaptation quickly became one of the most discussed topics in Hollywood, with every confirmed name sparking fresh waves of speculation about who everyone would be playing.
Elliot Page joined that cast in early 2025, alongside fellow Nolan veterans Himesh Patel, Bill Irwin, and Samantha Morton, connecting back into a director-actor relationship that first began with ‘Inception’ back in 2010, where Page played architecture student Ariadne. What kept fans endlessly theorizing, however, was that Page’s actual role in ‘The Odyssey’ was never disclosed. As speculation passed through several phases, the dominant fan theory settled on Page playing Achilles, the legendary Greek warrior, a rumor that spread widely online and drew both enthusiasm and significant controversy.
That theory has now been firmly put to rest. The confirmation came through the Hungarian voice cast list obtained via Universal’s non-U.S. distributor, which revealed that Page will be playing Sinon, Odysseus’ cousin and the Greek soldier who convinces the Trojans to bring the wooden horse inside the city by pretending to have been abandoned by his own men. The reveal arrived via Christopher Nolan Archives on X, and it reframes everything fans thought they understood about Page’s contribution to the film.
What makes the choice particularly striking is that Sinon is not drawn from Homer’s original poem at all. His story comes primarily from Virgil’s Aeneid and other later classical accounts, which signals that Nolan has pulled from a broader tradition of ancient sources rather than limiting himself strictly to a single text. Sinon is not a warrior in the traditional heroic mold but a strategist and a liar, a man whose greatest contribution to the Greek cause is not physical strength but the willingness to be left behind, alone and vulnerable, to sell a performance that will bring an empire to its knees.
For Page, the personal stakes of this reunion run deeper than the mythology itself. Speaking to Variety at New York City Comic Con, Page described how returning to Nolan’s orbit felt entirely different this time around. “I was so excited to be thought of for ‘The Odyssey’ and to be asked to come back to work with him,” Page said. “To come back now, as you can imagine, being more comfortable in yourself makes these sorts of projects more enjoyable. To get to have a Chris Nolan experience again now meant so much to me selfishly.”
The film carries a reported budget of around $250 million, was shot on brand-new state-of-the-art IMAX cameras by cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, clocks in at a runtime of two hours and fifty-two minutes, and has received an R rating. Early press screenings have reportedly drawn strong reactions, with Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, and Tom Holland all earning praise, and attendees describing the score as phenomenal and the creature sequences as stunning. The full supporting cast also includes James Remar as the blind prophet Tiresias, Mia Goth as Melantho, Corey Hawkins as the Egyptian Polybus, and Travis Scott as a bard.
With less than a month to go before ‘The Odyssey’ opens in theaters on July 17, the pieces of Nolan’s grand classical puzzle are finally clicking into place, and Elliot Page as a cunning, sacrificial deceiver might be the most intriguing piece of all. Now that you know Page is playing the Greek soldier who talked his way through the gates of Troy, does the casting change how excited you are for what’s waiting on the other side of those walls?
