Elizabeth Olsen comes from a showbiz family, with her older sisters Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen starring on Full House, though she wanted to find time to make her own way.
The 32-year-old WandaVision star addressed her own nepotism in a wide-ranging new interview with Grazia Magazine.
Olsen revealed that she was always aware of nepotism in Hollywood, but she wanted to succeed on her own.
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On her own: Elizabeth Olsen comes from a showbiz family, with her older sisters Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen starring on Full House, though she wanted to find time to make her own way
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Interview: The 32-year-old WandaVision star addressed her own nepotism in a wide-ranging new interview with Grazia Magazine
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‘Nepotism is a thing and I’m very aware of it. And of course, I’ve always wanted to do it alone,’ she said.
Olsen studied at New York University’s Tisch School of the Art and made her acting debut in Martha Marcy May Marlene in 2011.
Now she returns as Wanda Maximoff, a.k.a. Scarlet Witch, in Marvel’s WandaVision, which airs its seventh of nine episodes on Friday on Disney Plus.
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Alone: ‘Nepotism is a thing and I’m very aware of it. And of course, I’ve always wanted to do it alone,’ she said.
Elizabeth Olsen talks growing up with sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley
‘I thought it was perfect for television, and a very original idea that made me excited,’ Olsen said.
She made her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut with a brief cameo in 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier, before starring in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron.
In subsequent films, she developed a relationship with Paul Bettany’s Vision, leading to the duo reuniting in WandaVision.
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Original: ‘I thought it was perfect for television, and a very original idea that made me excited,’ Olsen said
‘He’s very precise, like me,’ Olsen said of her co-star, who returns as Vision in the critically-acclaimed series.
The show explores several tropes throughout television history, with Olsen explaining this show is right in her wheelhouse.
‘I was a very hammy, performative child. So, I do think I got to live out some sort of childhood dream doing the show,’ she added.
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Precise: ‘He’s very precise, like me,’ Olsen said of her co-star, who returns as Vision in the critically-acclaimed series
WandaVision started filming before the COVID-19 pandemic with the second half filmed during the pandemic, with a six-month break in between.
When asked about her character, she saw her, ‘as a victim of extreme trauma, who does not understand how to process it.’
‘She has been a human experiment,’ she added of Wanda.
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Filming: WandaVision started filming before the COVID-19 pandemic with the second half filmed during the pandemic, with a six-month break in between
