Diablo Cody in 2019; Elliot Page on Nov. 4, 2023.Photo:Daniel Zuchnik/Getty, Michael Kovac/Getty
Daniel Zuchnik/Getty, Michael Kovac/Getty
Diablo Codyis delighted to seeJunostarElliot Pagethriving.
TheLisa Frankensteinscreenwriter, 45, won an Oscar for the2007 teen-pregnancy comedyJuno, which starred Page, now 36, plus J.K. Simmons, Jason Bateman, Allison Janey, Michael Cera and Jennifer Garner.
In her acceptancespeech, Cody gave shout-outs to the cast and crew, specifically calling Page a “superhuman.” Not much has changed in Cody’s eyes.
“I love Elliot. I haven’t talked to him in a while, but he’s still a superhuman in many ways,” she says.
Theactor came out as transgenderin December 2020. Says Cody of witnessing Page’s journey over the years, “I just love to see him living his truth and being happy and looking gorgeous.”
Elliot Page on Sept. 8, 2023.Kayla Oaddams/Getty
Kayla Oaddams/Getty
Last year, Page, who is author of the bestselling memoirPageboy,told PEOPLE he feels an “ease” nowlike never before: “It definitely feels a way that I never thought I would get to feel, and that mostly manifests in how present I feel, the ease I feel and the ability to exist.”
Page earned an acting nomination forJuno, and the film was also nominated for Best Director and Best Picture.
Cody says her Oscar win for Best Original Screenplay that year “definitely changed my life, and it’s still a cool fact to have on your Wikipedia page.”
Diablo Cody at the Oscars on Feb. 24, 2008.Ian West - PA Images/PA Images via Getty
Ian West - PA Images/PA Images via Getty
“But I always say in this business, people are always on to the next. So you get to be the prom queen for the year, and then it’s like, ‘All right. What else you got?’ You can’t coast on it forever, unfortunately.”
She doesn’t remember much about her speech, though. “It’s funny because I’ve actually never watched that speech. I would die if I saw it, because it’s so embarrassing. Whenever people reference it, I’m like, ‘Oh, did I saythat?’ Because I was on another planet. That was so scary.”
Cole Sprouse and Kathryn Newton in “Lisa Frankenstein”.Michele K. Short / © 2023 FOCUS FEATURES LLC
Michele K. Short / © 2023 FOCUS FEATURES LLC
SinceJuno, Cody, also a Tony Award winner, has written movies likeJennifer’s Body,Young AdultandTully. With her latest, the 1980s-setteen horror-comedyLisa Frankenstiein, she goes back to high school to mine for material.
“Writing about teenagers is just the best because you have all these heightened emotions to play with, the impulsivity, the lack of the fully formed prefrontal cortex that factors into decision-making. I just think teenagers, it’s like they’re still kids, so it’s a fun world that I seem to just be drawn to.”
Lisa Frankensteinis in theaters Friday.
source: people.com
