Elliot Page arrived on the red carpet Tuesday night with girlfriend Julia Shiplett, turning a premiere into a rare public outing for the couple. Page wore an oversized navy suit with a striped button-down and black dress shoes, while Shiplett chose a chocolate-brown floor-length gown with a draped neckline.
The pair posed arm in arm for photographers, a simple appearance that drew notice because Page and Shiplett have kept their relationship mostly out of view since publicly confirming it in June 2025. He first introduced the romance with a selfie of the two standing on a rainbow-painted street, paired with a rainbow and heart emoji, and they later made their official red-carpet debut together at a Gucci event during Milan Fashion Week a few months later.
The moment is getting extra attention because Page is also fronting one of the most talked-about roles in The Odyssey. He plays Sinon, the Greek soldier whose story becomes entwined with Odysseus, played by Matt Damon, and the film has already been pulled into online argument over casting and creative choices. Some of that noise swelled before his role had even been publicly confirmed, helped along by AI videos and fake news that sent people chasing the wrong character names.
Christopher Nolan has pushed back hard on the criticism. In an interview published July 10, he said conversations around a film before people have seen it are irrelevant because nobody making them knows what the movie actually is yet, and he added that the pre-release debate simply comes with the territory. Nolan compared the scrutiny to what he faced during The Dark Knight trilogy and said the job is to honor the original text by interpreting it as strongly as possible.
He also singled out Page, saying it was thrilling to work with him again and that his character brings something really special to the film. Nolan said the role helps put a face on the tragedy of war, while Page’s own return to a major Nolan project adds another layer to the release after their earlier work together on Inception. For now, the premiere served two purposes at once: it gave Page and Shiplett another public outing, and it put Page back in view as The Odyssey moves toward release.
