--- description: Those in power often manipulate younger people, the actress says title: X-Men Days of Future Past Ellen Page Q&A: Bryan Singer and Hollywood image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3ee4064622cb29f1/6986907a36176032a690c1fa/page.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Ellen Page: Creepiness Is a "Systemic Problem" in Hollywood  by [Lily Rothman](/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Rothman is managing editor at TIME. May 22, 2014 7:12 PM CUT  Ellen Page at 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 2, 2014 in West Hollywood, Calif. Ellen Page at 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 2, 2014 in West Hollywood, Calif.Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez / AFP / Getty Images  by [Lily Rothman](/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Rothman is managing editor at TIME. May 22, 2014 7:12 PM CUT For an actor, promoting a movie usually requires spending a lot of time talking about his or her character and the world of the film. And, in this week’s TIME, Ellen Page does just that for the new _X-Men: Days of Future Past_ (in theaters this weekend), discussing the way the movie’s worldview meshes with her own and why she might use mutant powers to see what it’s like to be Jay Z. But sometimes, a movie release coincides with real-life events, and in _X-Men_‘s case, that something happens to be the recent suit against director Bryan Singer, who has been accused of sexually abusing a minor. (On Wednesday, according to [_The Hollywood Reporter_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bryan-singer-files-motion-dismiss-706418 "undefined"), Singer filed a motion to dismiss. In [a recent cover story for the same publication](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/x-mens-ellen-page-life-701414 "undefined"), Page said that those accusations against Singer were “disturbing” and that “the truth will come out in the way that it does.” But, she told TIME, no matter ends up happening with Singer’s case, there’s a larger issue that we should be talking about instead: --- > “” --- Such power imbalances, and their “creepy” consequences, have often been seen as a problem that mostly affects those for whom the imbalance is greatest; as my colleague Kate Pickert [explained](http://time.com/88234/bryan-singer-hollywood-scandal/ "undefined") when the Singer scandal first broke, advocates say that the aspirants who have the most to gain and lose are the ones most in danger of predatory quid-pro-quo transactions. But, if Page’s observations hold true across her industry, it sounds like the problem isn’t limited to careers that have yet to break through. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/108880/ellen-page-x-men/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/108880/ellen-page-x-men/"},"headline":"Ellen Page: Creepiness Is a \"Systemic Problem\" in Hollywood","datePublished":"2014-05-22T19:12:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:15:18.460Z","description":"Those in power often manipulate younger people, the actress says","url":"https://time.com/108880/ellen-page-x-men/","keywords":["celebrities","Sex","Hollywood","Q&A","Scandal","TIME 100","X-Men"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3ee4064622cb29f1/6986907a36176032a690c1fa/page.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3ee4064622cb29f1/6986907a36176032a690c1fa/page.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ellen Page","caption":"Ellen Page","creditText":"Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez / AFP / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/108880/ellen-page-x-men/","name":"Ellen Page: Creepiness Is a \"Systemic Problem\" in Hollywood"}}]}] ```