Elizabeth Olsen Says 'Scarlet Witch' Is "Coming Into Her Own" In CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
The latest from Elizabeth Olsen has the actress talk more about being protective of the Scarlet Witch, the character being a wildcard in Captain America: Civil War, a potential romance between her and the Vision, Marvel's secrecy, and more. Check it out after the jump!
Having portrayed the Scarlet Witch twice, or rather three times counting her short and sweet debut in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, as well as Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War, Olsen said she "absolutely" feels ownership of the character especially with her abilities. "I have a movement coach for the way she throws her hexes so I’m very protective over that," she explained. "It’s something that was created out of whatever uniquely that we made up for the first film. Now we have this huge attachment to it and we don’t want to see it messed up. It’s not like there’s stunt rehearsal for it — she and I go create it and then people say yes or no. We have a trajectory plan of how we want it to evolve and change. That creative physical power is really cool."
Elizabeth Olsen then spoke about the craziest bit of secrecy she had to endure being a part of the Marvel Universe. "When you get the pages that you’re filming that day, you’re not allowed to take those home with you," she said. "They account for everyone at the end of the day and then they shred it. I took this one photograph, it was actually on (Captain America: Civil War). Barry, who’s our security guy and is amazing, he can detect a paparazzi from like a 15-mile radius. He’s incredible. Obviously he can’t lock down public streets and bridges and things like that, but he locks down everything he can. I have this photo of Jenny my movement coach and I posing for a photo on my phone, and then in the background we asked Barry to try and interrupt us and scream at us. They have a zero tolerance policy for releasing photos on a set. It’s pretty serious — you feel like you’re doing something for the government and you’re making a movie."
When asked more directly about her role in Civil War, Olsen said Wanda Maximoff is, "coming into her own and starting to understand and have conflict with how she wants to use her abilities." She continued, "It’s a dramatic conflict within her and obviously there’s conflict within the (Avengers) as well. I like that they didn’t release Scarlet Witch in the promo photos for the teams — it places her as being a wild card, and I like her having that kind of edge that people don’t know what she’s capable of. They can fear her because she is so incredibly powerful in a different way than the rest of the heroes for the most part. I like playing that role within the gang."
Finally, Elizabeth Olsen was asked about the possibility of the Scarlet Witch hooking up with Paul Bettany's the Vision in a standalone movie a la the comics. "It has to be House of M," she said. "That’s still all I want to do, I don’t care. I would just love to have make-believe children and have him play along with it and then just decide to destroy all mutants. That would be so fun but obviously that would never happen." This mainly would never happen because Fox evidently owns the X-Men, so "that would be really difficult" for the MCU. What do YOU think?
Directed by Anthony & Joe Russo from a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, Captain America: Civil War picks up where Avengers: Age of Ultron left off, as Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) leads the new team of Avengers in their continued efforts to safeguard humanity. After another international incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability and a governing body to determine when to enlist the services of the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers while they try to protect the world from a new and nefarious villain. Starring Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Chadwick Boseman, Emily VanCamp, Daniel Brühl, Frank Grillo, William Hurt, and Martin Freeman, Captain America: Civil War is set for release on May 6, 2016.