While discussing her Hamptons International Film Festival opener Eternity earlier today, Elizabeth Olsen acknowledged she “always” wants to return to the MCU
“It is something that I love, and it’s something I always want to return to,” she said at a panel conversation, per People. “I think the thing that’s been so special about the last five years is I’ve gotten to do so much with the character that I never thought I would. There are still character through lines that have happened in the comics that I’d love to do that I think fans also want to.”
Olsen continued, “I mean, these movies aren’t for critics, these movies are for fans.”
The actress first began portraying Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch nearly a decade ago, first appearing in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War. The character got a standalone limited series with WandaVision in 2021, and Olsen garnered an Emmy nomination for the role. Wanda’s last appearance was in 2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, with Olsen having since confirmed the character died. As audiences are aware, however, even death can be overcome in the multiverse.
“It’s really fruitful, and the stories have only gotten better for me, my character. I really enjoyed it,” she said of the part, adding later on the subject of superhero fatigue (something Marvel boss Kevin Feige is making a priority in tackling): “Some people have ongoing television series that they get to return to. Very few, I feel like, get to be a part of franchises that, I know we might culturally get a little bit exhausted by, but there is something about them that becomes very familial.”
She concluded, “There’s nothing else really like it, and I don’t know that I’ll have [that] again unless it’s for an ongoing show. I do like that kind of consistency. It feels good. I mean, job security feels nice — I think we can all agree on that.”
Olsen echoed sentiments she previously expressed last year, saying, “I’d never really had the mentality of ‘one for them, one for me.’ 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.’”
Eternity, which enjoyed its world premiere at TIFF last month, will see a limited theatrical release Nov. 14, before going wide Nov. 26.
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