Summary:
- Elizabeth Olsen described WandaVision as a career curveball and felt it was like “Marvel’s weird cousin,” especially since it debuted during the pandemic.
- While she enjoys her Marvel role, she expressed the need to explore other film projects for balance.
Marvel has fully embraced the multiverse and witchcraft with Agatha All Along premiering this month. But when Disney+ first expanded the MCU into television, WandaVision became a key epilogue to Wanda Maximoff’s story from Avengers and set the stage for the next phase of MCU projects.
Elizabeth Olsen, who played Wanda in several MCU films before starring in WandaVision, is now promoting her new Netflix drama, His Three Daughters. In a recent interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Olsen reflected on how WandaVision was a surprising career shift for her.
“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,” Olsen said.
“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 added, “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!”
After working on multiple Marvel projects in a row, Olsen recently opened up about wanting to branch out into other roles beyond superheroes.
She explained, “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… I just need other characters in my life. There’s no longevity in one character.”
