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Ellen Page is this season's breakout star. The young actress is receiving rave reviews for her role in Juno.

So, what does the future hold for Page?

"I'm in An American Crime, which premiered at Sundance, and will hopefully come out next summer," the actress told MTV. "It's a really intense film. It's based on a true story about a girl in ‘65, who was horribly tortured in a woman's basement."

From there, Page will resurface next spring in Smart People, a flick about a widowed professor (Dennis Quaid) dealing with new love and the reappearance of his adopted brother.

"It's produced by Michael London, who produced Sideways," Page said.

The actress portrays Quaid's daughter in the film and said about the role: "I play a completely different character from Juno; I play a very bitchy, young Republican... It can often be so easy to judge other people - which is obviously a huge mistake, and it causes a lot of the harm in the world… For a role like this, the important thing is, I can't judge … [as an actress] you realize, ‘Oh wow, now I know why she is so isolated and angry.'"

Lastly, there's Jack and Diane.

"I'm shooting a film in the spring with Olivia Thirlby (the cheerleader in Juno)," Page said about the final movie on her current docket, teasing her newfound fans with the promise of love scene between the two Juno best friends (in the flick, Page is a teenage lesbian werewolf). "I have a film lined up for the summer, too - so it's all chugging along."

Ellen Page and Michael Cera star in Juno. Below, the young stars talk about the film with Movie Web:

How quickly upon reading the script, were you like "I want to do this project?"
Ellen Page: When I read the script it just blew mind and I fell totally in love with it and I just really wanted to be part of it.

Michael Cera: How quickly?

Ellen Page: Oh, how quickly? ... I don't know, page 4. No, that's exaggerating. One of those things where immediately when you started reading it, you knew it was something special and then the more you read, the more it surprised you, and the more you realized it was devoid of stereotype and...

Michael Cera: I really liked the format of the script. It was not written like a script. It didn't look like she (screenwriter Diablo Cody) was trying to write it like a script. It was more like a book. I can remember certain paragraphs were just like broken up oddly and that kind of ... not like reading a script.

Kinda like a book. That made me want to do the movie. I thought "wow, if it's written oddly then, if it's not written like a script, it's got to be a good movie". I found out, that's not the way to make a decision. And it's not a lesson that I'll soon forget.

What did you two like most about your characters? What about that character that caught your eye?
Michael Cera: I really liked that my character's just kinda immediately less out of the equation. I didn't have any sort of control in the matter. It's like a movie that takes course over 9 months or so and just the whole time, not aware of what's going on and have no control over it, so that kind of, I thought that would be fun to do.

Ellen Page: I was excited about this character because I felt like it was a teenage female lead that we just never seen before and although she's an incredibly unique and witty and all these things, she's also very genuine and it all felt very sincere.

Michael Cera may be the first name you think of when you watch the trailer for Juno, but Ellen Page is the actress that truly dominates the film.

She recently spoke to Comingsoon.net about the role:

Q: How do you approach a comedy like this differently from doing a drama?
Page: I don't know. It's interesting. I think I've done some films that have an element of emotional extremity and oddly I think there's an illusion that that's more difficult acting and it can be more difficult to just be and to just be as genuine as possible.

For a film like Juno, I felt like if it was at all forceful than it would have become contrived and annoying and a lax and kind of a genuine emotion that allows for the heart to connect. If you lose that, well you've lost me for one thing. I'm very much like you gotta get me here or, you know?

So often movies that everyone on the planet likes, I don't like, 'cause I'm just like I can't connect to this at all. I think it's about connecting. It's always about connecting. I'm totally rambling. I think with something like "Juno" there's more of a fine line I suppose.

Q: How did you find the physicality of the role, being eight months pregnant?
Page: Intimidated at first, but I actually watched other films. Michael Winterbottom's "Wonderland," I don't know if you've seen that. Amazing movie. And Molly Parker, a Canadian actress, is pregnant in that and gives birth.

I remembered that because I love that film and I was like, "I'm going to watch that and completely rip her off." So shout-out to Molly Parker, and yeah, I bought "Pregnancy for Dummies."

To read the full interview, click here.