In 2010, three years after making a splash in Juno, Elliot Page starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception, Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to The Dark Knight. While the movie itself was a critical and commercial success, Page didn’t have a good time working on it. The actor recalled how he got shingles while working on Inception as a result of feeling “out of place” among the other attached talent.
Page has a memoir called Pageboy that just came out, and along with discussing topics like when he dated Fantastic Four actress Kate Mara, he went over his time on Inception, where he played Ariadne, the architecture student whom DiCaprio’s Dom Cobb recruits for the main dream heist. The movie was shot from June 2009 to the following November, and during that time, Page said that “shingles communicated the stress” his body felt on the set. In his words (via Insider):
