Appropriately obsessed

The Tracey Fragments, director Bruce McDonald's film currently churning through the post-production stages, also tapped into Page's love for the "insanely honest." The script by Maureen Medved, which comes from her novel of the same name, tells the story of the traumatized and teenaged Tracey Berkowitz, her naked body wrapped in a shower curtain, sitting at the back of the bus. The film, which was shot over 14 days in late February and early March of this year, depends on Page's portrayal of the teenage girl, as The Tracey Fragments is a memory piece that's told and seen entirely through her perspective.

"I read the book and read the script and just loved it, and had never read something like that," she says. "It's kind of really extreme in this unbelievably honest way, like what it's actually like in your mind as a teenage girl to just be figuring it out. Everything is nonstop, everything is black and white and kinetic and nothing is linear."

In addition to a role in Kari Skogland's Stone Angel, look forward (way forward) to Ellen Page with a smile on her face. Under the direction of Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking), Page will become Juno, an offbeat young woman who finds herself pregnant and makes some unusual decisions - and the title character of a comedy scheduled to start filming in January.

Evidently a lover of honest scripts, real characters and all things film, Page is admittedly obsessed with her art form and often finds herself bringing a little fraction of her characters and their stories home. But who could blame her? At not even 20 years old, the young actor has mastered roles that many would dream to even tackle, and she dives right in from head to toe. And beyond using these exhausting characters to indulge in her own fascination in exploring deep emotions, Page hopes to spark reactions in others with the stories she tells.

"You get excited when you go through something and someone sees it and they have this really intense emotional response, whether it's negative or positive - they're both great because you're just provoking people," she says. "I love film, and it's an art form and art should provoke."