In a new conversation with Harper’s Bazaar UK, Elizabeth Olsen explained that she decided to do ‘WandaVision’ willingly.
“‘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,” the actress recalled.
She continued, “I was really scared about doing a Marvel project for TV because there are otherworldly, larger-than-life characters that are seen in films, and I didn’t know if it would still work on the television at home. But I had confidence in the format because the storytelling really honored the TV medium.”
“We really felt we were Marvel’s weird cousin. We didn’t know it was going to have such a response,” Olsen noted. “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 that point.”
“Specifically in the last four years, my output has been Marvel,” Olsen told in September 2023 about her future with Marvel. “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.”
The actress added, “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. I think it’s been almost 10 years of playing her. And I’ve loved it.”
Fans are curious if Olsen will return in Marvel’s new show ‘Agatha All Along.’ Her character ‘died’ in ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,’ but since Scarlet Witch is so popular after ‘WandaVision,’ it’s hard to think she’ll be gone for long.
