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Elizabeth Olsen is presently connected a break from nan Marvel Cinematic Universe, and she’s decidedly enjoying it. During a speech pinch “The White Lotus” prima Meghann Fahy arsenic portion of Variety’s “Actors connected Actors” series, Olsen sewage honorable astir not missing her Scarlet Witch days.
“Do you miss doing Wanda?” Fahy asked.
“No, I don’t,” Olsen responded. “I deliberation it’s been almost 10 years of playing her. And I’ve loved it. And I deliberation nan logic why I americium not calling Kevin Feige each time pinch ideas is because I’m really proud of what we were capable to do. I deliberation ‘WandaVision’ was a really astonishing opportunity.”
Olsen added, “If personification were to show maine that I’m fired from Marvel movies, I will consciousness proud of what we made. And I really americium conscionable trying to fig retired really to load up different films and characters truthful it becomes little astir nan Marvel of it all.”
“That’s specified a awesome answer!” Fahy said. “It’s truthful honest.”
Olsen presently has nary thought erstwhile aliases if she will return to nan Marvel Cinematic Universe arsenic Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, a characteristic she’s been playing since 2015’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” Wanda was past seen successful 2022’s “Doctor Strange successful nan Multiverse of Madness,” wherever she was crushed nether a collapsing building aft she sacrificed herself to destruct nan Darkhold, nan evil book of sorcery that had corrupted her and turned her into a villain.
“There really is truthful overmuch much to explore,” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige told Variety last year. “We still haven’t touched connected galore of her halfway storylines from nan comics. I’d activity pinch Lizzie for different 100 years if we could. Anything’s imaginable successful nan multiverse! We’ll person to see.”
In interviews pursuing nan merchandise of nan “Doctor Strange” sequel, Olsen did not hide nan truth that she was amazed Marvel took Scarlet Witch successful specified a villainous direction. The Emmy nominee said she struggled pinch nan jump from “WandaVision,” wherever Scarlet Witch became a much susceptible and fully-fleshed retired character, to “Multiverse of Madness,” wherever she went afloat villain.
“At first I deliberation I was tense and conflicted, because I hadn’t vanished ‘WandaVision’ yet, but we were almost finished,” Olsen told Variety about learning her characteristic was becoming a villain. “And I was like, ‘Oh my god, really do I make this each activity together?’ We sewage there; I sewage there. And it became an astonishing opportunity to person group beryllium won complete by this female successful ‘WandaVision’ and consciousness for her, and then, you know, manipulate them into this film, wherever they get to beryllium connected her broadside and past consciousness conflicted themselves.”
Olsen antecedently told ScreenRant that should Scarlet Witch return to nan MCU, she’s hoping nan characteristic tin person a spot much joke to her. Click here to publication nan afloat “Actors connected Actors” discussion betwixt Olsen and Fahy.
