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Summary

Elizabeth Olsen’s break from playing Scarlet Witch in the MCU allows her to explore diverse film and TV roles outside the franchise.
Olsen’s post-MCU roles in the film His Three Daughters and limited series Love & Death prove the MCU needs her more than she needs it.

Olsen’s return to the MCU is unclear but possible, though the actress may want to pursue her successful career outside the MCU.

A well-earned break from her long-standing role as the MCU’s Wanda Maximoff has allowed Elizabeth Olsen the room to explore new and exciting roles in film and TV. Olsen debuted as Wanda Maximoff’s Scarlet Witch, in the MCU’s Avengers: The Age of Ultron following an uncredited cameo appearance in 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier. As is the case for most of the MCU’s cast superhumans, Olsen reprised her character over the years in multiple movies, including Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Olsen’s multi-film role led her to the opportunity of starring in the MCU’s first television series, WandaVision, and featuring in two episodes of the animated anthology series What If…?. Her near ten-year commitment to the MCU, nonetheless admirable, was undoubtedly time-consuming, monopolizing Olsen’s pursuit of film and TV roles outside the franchise. However, with no current contract in place with Marvel Studios, Olsen’s imposed break from Scarlet Witch is now a new opportunity to see the actress in roles that are not only poles apart from the mythical superhuman and just as exciting but paying off for her already.