Scarlet Witch Actor Elizabeth Olsen Explains Why WandaVision Was So Risky
Elizabeth Olsen explains why she thought WandaVision was so risky. Olsen has grown tremendously in popularity due to her captivating performance as Wanda Maximoff in Marvel Studios' first Disney+ series, WandaVision. Following her star turn in the series, Olsen's Scarlet Witch went on to become the main villain of director Sam Raimi's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, in a continuation of the arc that WandaVision had established for the character. While the series was a major success, Olsen had her doubts about how the show would be received.
On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Olsen revealed that she and co-star Paul Bettany were apprehensive about how WandaVision would be received due to the series' unusual nature.
According to Olsen, WandaVision's sitcom theme felt risky in comparison to The Falcon and the Winter Soldier's globetrotting superhero adventures, with both shows shooting around the same time. While Olsen notes that both she and Bettany loved playing in WandaVision's sitcom sandbox, the Vision actor often joked about the show by calling it "the forgotten cousin to the Marvel Universe." Check out the full quote below:
"We just felt like, Paul [Bettany] kept calling us the forgotten cousin to the Marvel Universe. He just felt like we were some annoying cousin that people just, like, threw in the corner. I think Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan were traveling all over the world and blowing things up, and Paul and I were just doing sitcom acting in a corner … We loved what we were doing and had so much fun doing it, but we really felt like it was either going to, it might ruin us all. But I feel like that's the stuff that's the most fun to me, when you feel like you could fail at any second."