Elizabeth Olsen Confesses She’d Be Fine Never Playing The Scarlet Witch Again For Marvel

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Say what? Elizabeth Olsen has go 1 of the astir beloved faces of the Marvel Cinematic Universe arsenic the Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff), who she archetypal portrayed successful 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier. She besides brought the quality to beingness successful her ain tv show, WandaVision, and blockbuster films specified as Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness and the Avengers movies. Despite her success, the 34-year-old histrion revealed successful a June 12 interrogation that she doesn’t attraction if she ever returns to the role.

She made the shocking revelation during a June chat with Meghann Fahy for Variety’s “Actors connected Actors” bid aft the White Lotus prima asked if she misses playing the almighty sorceress. “No, I don’t,” Elizabeth bluntly replied. “I deliberation it’s been astir 10 years of playing her. And I’ve loved it. And I deliberation the crushed wherefore I americium not calling [Marvel Studios president] Kevin Feige each time with ideas is due to the fact that I’m truly arrogant of what we were capable to do.”

Elizabeth Olsen arsenic the Scarlet Witch (Photo: Everett Collection/Marvel Studios)(

“I deliberation WandaVision was a truly astonishing opportunity,” Elizabeth went on, making her appreciation for the relation known. “If idiosyncratic were to archer maine that I’m fired from Marvel movies, I volition consciousness arrogant of what we made. And I truly americium conscionable trying to fig retired however to load up different films and characters truthful it becomes little astir the Marvel of it all.”

The past clip Elizabeth played the Scarlet Witch was successful 2022’s Doctor Strange and determination are nary announced plans for her tor instrumentality to an upcoming Marvel film. After Doctor Strange, Elizabeth portrayed Candy Montgomery successful the existent transgression drama, Love & Death. Elizabeth explained that playing Candy was a refreshing interruption from the Scarlet Witch. “I deliberation I had the summertime disconnected oregon thing earlier going into Candy. I was truly bare to enactment that quality [Wanda] away, adjacent though they could arguably beryllium compared, due to the fact that they some bash atrocious things and they’re antiheroes successful a way,” she noted. “I don’t marque that comparison. But I recognize wherefore radical privation to marque the comparisons.”

Elizabeth Olsen began playing the Scarlet Witch successful 2014 (Photo: Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection)

Earlier this year, Elizabeth said she hopes the Scarlet Witch has a aboriginal communicative aft she seemingly died successful Doctor Strange. “Yes I anticipation [we volition spot much of her],” she said during an April quality connected TODAY. “I person nary idea. When I accidental that, it’s not due to the fact that I person a loaded answer,” she clarified. “It’s due to the fact that I say, ‘Yes I anticipation so,’ and I mean it astatine look value.”

Plus, successful March, the Wind River histrion said she has immoderate plans for her quality if she gets to play her again. “I consciousness similar we’ve done truthful much. Now, we tin truly person fun; I consciousness similar there’s a batch much wit to beryllium had with her,” she told ScreenRant. “She’s often the emotion of a story, and I’m funny to spot what we tin explore. And hopefully [we can] springiness her immoderate redemption.”

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