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Ellen Page dismisses "dark" film reputation
Published Sunday, Oct 4 2009, 18:22 BST | By Marcell Minaya
Rex Features
The Whip It star reportedly almost missed the opportunity to act in Drew Barrymore's directorial debut because film producers didn't think the material was "dark" enough for the 22-year-old actress to accept, reports STV.
Page told MTV: "I was at Sundance with a movie of a much, much darker tone called An American Crime, and one of the producers came up to me and was like, 'Oh, I have this project that I want to talk to you about, but I hear you only like dark things'. And I was like, 'What? I don't know who told you that, but please, I am thirsty for whatever'.
"I was like, 'Please send this script to me right away', and I read it and loved it and met Drew and that was that."
While Page plays a rebel in the roller-derby movie, she has insisted that she doesn't relate to the role in that sense.
She added: "I don't know if I would characterise myself as that. I always kind of did my thing and was always very much myself and didn't necessarily become attached to the idea of being any sort of rebel, because I think that can become an attachment in itself."
Whip It is currently in US cinemas. No UK release date has yet been announced.
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