Elizabeth Olsen on Feeling Pressure to “Prove” Her Personal Film Taste Post Marvel
has revealed that her personal film taste doesn’t necessarily align with projects she’s starred in, namely movies.
The actress, who played Wanda Maximoff, aka the Scarlet Witch, in the over nearly a decade, recently shared on NPR‘s Wild Card with Rachel Martin podcast that she feels pressure to “prove” her creative taste when it comes to the content she consumes.
“I think I haven’t always successfully made choices in my work that are aligned with my personal taste and that is something I feel like I’m still trying to prove when I meet people,” Olsen explained. “Especially if it’s a work-type meeting and be able to express my personal taste in films, literature, and so I still think I have that to prove.”
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The Love & Death star continued, “Because I have spent so many years doing Marvel that I feel like all the other jobs I have to do have to really reflect my personal taste, because as much as I love being a part of this world — and I’m proud of what I’ve been able to do with the character — it’s not really the art that I consume. Which I have been very honest about.”
Olsen first debuted her Scarlet Witch character in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron before going on to appear in several other Marvel films, including Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022). She also scored an Emmy nomination for best actress in a limited or anthology series or movie for her performance in the Disney+ series WandaVision (2021).
Olsen later reiterated that she’s still extremely proud of her work with Marvel, despite preferring to watch films outside of the superhero genre.
“I thought they were such great Greek-type scale stories that reflected politics, culture in a really lovely way,” The Assessment actress said. “And so I felt really proud to jump into it. And then, within the last 10 years, it’s taken on this narrative of like, it’s like a hot take, whether an actor says they would never do a Marvel movie or not.”
Though Olsen shared last year that she’s open to returning as the Scarlet Witch “when there’s a way to use her well,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in March that she won’t be a part of the Russo brothers’ two upcoming Avengers movies, Doomsday and Secret Wars.
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