When she isn’t playing Wanda Maximoff (or the Scarlet Witch) in a Marvel movie or TV series, you can probably find Elizabeth Olsen starring in a more intimate indie film. But no, she’s not just taking those Marvel jobs to make her passion projects, as she clarified at Vulture Festival. “I’d never really had the mentality of ‘one for them, one for me,’” Olsen said.
“Marvel has been such a consistent thing I’ve been able to return to and has created — what’s the word? — some feeling of insurance in my life that has given me freedom to choose other jobs. So I haven’t felt like, ‘And then I’ll do this to do this.’” Returning to Marvel for more projects, like the Disney+ series Wandavision , “has always felt like a choice,” Olsen added.
“Every time, it’s character-driven,” she said. “It’s always like, ‘We have this idea, and that’s why we want you to come back.’ It’s not like, ‘Just throw her in something.
’” And Olsen knows the industry needs both types of movies. She admitted she doesn’t “have an interest in making” a film if it’s only going to be released on streaming — which is why she was excited that her Netflix film His Three Daughters didn’t just get a theatrical run, but was also shown on 35-millimeter film. But Olsen added that she knows Marvel projects can help “pay the rent” for theaters to be able to show smaller movies, citing director Paul Thomas Anderson’s comments .
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