Elizabeth Olsen Wants To Branch Out Beyond Marvel’s Scarlet Witch: ‘I Just Need Other Characters In My Life’
01.09.2023 - 21:17
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Elizabeth Olsen made her Marvel debut as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch in 2013’s “Captain America and the Winter Soldier”.
Since then, she’s played the character in numerous other Marvel projects, including “Aveengers: Age of Ultron”, “Captain America: Civil War”, “Avengers: Infinity War”, “Avengers: Endgame”, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”, and the Disney+ series “WandaVision”.
While she’s managed to slide in a few other projects (i.e. the TV series “Sorry for Your Loss” and, most recently, the miniseries “Love & Death”), she’s ready to play more roles that aren’t within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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“I’m trying to figure out… Because, specifically in the last four years, my output has been Marvel,” she said in a recent interview (conducted prior to the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike) with The Times of London.
“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,” she explained.
“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,” she continued.
“But yeah, that’s something that I need,” she added. “I just need other characters in my life. There’s no longevity in one character.”
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Olsen expressed a similar desire back in June when she was part of Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series of roundtables, when she was asked if she missed playing her Marvel character.
“No, I don’t,” she said. “I think it’s been almost 10 years of playing her. And I’ve loved it. And I think the