When Hard Candy came out a year later, Page quickly grew tired of answering questions about it. “I got really cranky about it when men would come in to interview me and go —” she paused to affect a nerdy, reedy male voice — “‘Oh no, are there any scissors in here?’ And I’d be like, ‘If we turned on prime-time television tonight, I will see a naked woman in a dumpster. So I need you to stop telling me how hard it is as a man to watch this movie.’