According to ScreenRant, Elizabeth Olsen (Godzilla, The Evil Dead, Oldboy) reveals her experience on the set of WandaVision, and comments on the risky move in the Marvel Cinematic Universe being the first limited series for the superhero franchise. Fortunately, the success of The Scarlet Witch in her series led to the long continuation of Marvel shows featuring recurring film actors.
Olsen had previously showcased her character back in 2015 during Avengers: Age of Ultron joining the headliners of the original group. She continued to appear in other box office hits headlining the original heroes like Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor, gradually building up her skillset in witchcraft until most of the major players dieFad, retired, or lightyears away, she finally got a chance to headline her own story instantly becoming a fan favorite upon release.
Although the show was a smash hit, Olsen had worries that the series wouldn’t perform as well as it did. During an interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Olsen talks about the sitcom theme of the show, the appearance of her co-star and on-screen husband Paul Bettany (The Da Vinci Code, A Beautiful Mind, Solo) portraying The Vision, and the following MCU project involving Anthony Mackie (Black Mirror, 8 Mile, The Hurt Locker) and Sebastian Stan (Fresh, Pam & Tommy, The Martian) as The Falcon & The Winter Soldier. Olsen’s quote is as follows:
“We just felt like, Paul kept calling us the forgotten cousin to the Marvel Universe. He just felt like we were some annoying cousin that people just, like, threw in the corner. I think Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan were traveling all over the world and blowing things up, and Paul and I were just doing sitcom acting in a corner … We loved what we were doing and had so much fun doing it, but we really felt like it was either going to, it might ruin us all. But I feel like that’s the stuff that’s the most fun to me, when you feel like you could fail at any second.”
Olsen built up her character, Wanda Maximoff, in her series ending in a set of tragic events, causing her to snap and become an unsuspecting villain in horror director Sam Raimi’s (The Evil Dead, Spiderman, Poltergeist) Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Audiences get to see an unhinged superhero crumbling under the stress, trauma, and loss of her entire family.
Wandavision‘s success is a one hundred percent given after being nominated for the Best Limited or Anthology Series Emmy in 2021 among other performance commencements. Olsen synergized her career appearing in more mediums like Love & Death and Sorry for Your Loss. Olsen is certain to return eventually with a redemption arc becoming one of the biggest powerhouses in the universe to be seen in future Avengers projects.