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While the actress was ready to expand outside of the MCU, she isn’t counting out any kind of reprisal with Wanda Maximoff.
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Can you imagine being so good at playing an all-powerful witch that the whole world starts identifying you as, well… that witch? Well, that’s exactly the situation Elizabeth Olsen, our undeniably talented Scarlet Witch from the MCU, finds herself in. After years of hopping through dimensions, mind-enslaving towns, and unleashing all hell on Doctor Strange, Olsen has decided: It’s time for something else. After all, there’s only so much “hexing” one actor can do, right?
Olsen recently opened up about her desire to diversify her career—yes, even powerful witches need balance, people! While she firmly emphasized she doesn’t despise her Marvel magic days (it’s more of a “it’s not you, it’s me” breakup), she’s itching to explore other roles that don’t require her to rewrite the laws of reality… at least not all the time. She’s already flexed her dramatic muscles in HBO’s *Love & Death* and is set to appear in *His Three Daughters*, providing a much-needed break from flipping through multiverses.
But here’s the kicker—she’s not totally shutting the door on the MCU. Oh no. In fact, if they can make Wanda’s comeback worthwhile (aka not just another cameo where she waves her hands around and causes chaos), Olsen says she’s more than game to don the tiara again. Because, let’s be real, who doesn’t love a good ol’ sorcery-infused drama when done *right*?
And speaking of surprises, Olsen’s performance in *WandaVision* threw a delightful career curveball that no one, not even Olsen herself, saw coming. She was terrified of Marvel on TV! But, as it turns out, being MCU’s “weird cousin” during the pandemic more than worked in her favor, with fans lapping it up like it was the last loaf of bread in a quarantine-ridden world. Funny how reality and TV weirdly linked up during that year, huh?
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After the consecutive years of working on Marvel projects, Elizabeth Olsen recently talked about finding other projects that she can explore outside of the superhero realm. She stated, “I don’t want… it’s not that I don’t want to be associated as just this character. But I really feel like I need to be building other parts back up for balance. I so much want to do films right now. And I hope some of them come together in the way I feel like they can. But yeah, that’s something that I need. I just need other characters in my life. There’s no longevity in one character.”
In her post-MCU career, Olsen has starred in HBO’s limited series Love & Death, she has the Netflix drama His Three Daughters coming out, as well as roles in films like Love Child and the rom-com, Eternity. Although its understandable she’s ready to move on and not be tied to a single character, Olsen isn’t completely counting out a return to the MCU. According to Collider, the actress recently spoke on FM104 about being open to revisiting Wanda. She stated,
It’s a character that I love going back to when there’s a way to use her well, and I think I have been lucky that when I started I was used well. I think people didn’t know what to do with me for a second there… if there’s a good way to use her I’m always happy to come back.”
While Olsen is expanding to other projects now, she credits WandaVision as being a career move that no one thought she’d make. She explained in Harper’s Bazaar, “My career curveball was Wandavision. No one forced me to do that! I have made a choice to continue on with Marvel, and they’ve made a choice to continue on with me. I was really scared about doing a Marvel project for TV, because these are otherworldly, larger-than-life characters that are seen in films, and I didn’t know if it would still work on a television at home. But I had confidence in the format because the storytelling really honoured the TV medium.”
She continues, “We really felt we were Marvel’s weird cousin. We didn’t know it was going to have such a response. It came out during the pandemic and it almost had way more relevance to everyone’s lives; [we were all] trying to function in these bubbles that we were put in, and then there was this world outside of a bubble. No-one even knew what reality was at that point!”
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