Elizabeth Olsen calls WandaVision biggest career curveball “We really felt like we were Marvel’s weird cousin…”

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/culture-news/a62064617/elizabeth-olsen-career-interview/

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  1. > “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. 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.

    > “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!”

  2. WandaVision was probably the last memorable output from Marvel, so I’m glad she chose to do it.

  4. Westview was such a nice place with its own rules outside of the multi-verse. Made sense that we didn’t see other avengers….. to a degree.

    But usually the absence of other marvel heros is just weird.

  5. One of the most unique and stylized shows I’ve ever seen. Tough to say that about many of the other marvel series. Had fun with Loki s1 too though

  6. Man, it was so cool and so fresh until they just completely reverted to MCU slop at the end of it. They can never commit to being interesting for very long. 

    Regardless though Olsen and Bettany were terrific in it. It was so fun seeing them play with different sitcom eras

  7. I loved Wandavision so much. Then the last, awful Dr Strange movie completely negated all of her character growth in the most insanely stupid way ever.

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