Elizabeth Olsen On Potential Scarlet Witch Return: "When I Started I Was Used Well..."

Elizabeth Olsen On Potential Scarlet Witch Return: "When I Started I Was Used Well..."

Elizabeth Olsen was asked about potentially reprising the role of Wanda Maximoff/the Scarlet Witch in the MCU, and says she's "always happy" to return as long as her character is "used well."

By MarkCassidy - Sep 08, 2024 10:09 AM EST
Filed Under: WandaVision

We haven't seen Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) since Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, when the powerful former Avenger found some redemption for her villainous deeds by destroying every copy of the Darkhold and bringing a mountain down on top of herself.

A lot of fans were of the opinion that Wanda's "heel turn" didn't feel earned, and that the character's switch to a full-on villain between the events of WandaVision and the Doctor Strange sequel didn't really make complete sense. This is certainly debatable (Wanda's actions in the Disney+ series were highly... questionable, after all), but it seems Olsen might happen to agree!

While being interviewed about her latest movie, His Three Daughters, by Irish radio station FM 104, Olsen was asked about potentially reprising the role in the MCU, and responded with the following.

“It's a character I love going back to when there's a way to use her well and I think I've been lucky when I started I was used well... and they kind of didn't know what to do with me for a second there! If there's a good way to use her, I'm always happy to come back.”

We don't want to put words in Olsen's mouth, but it sure sounds like she wasn't particularly happy with how Wanda was "used" during her last MCU appearance.

Olsen is expected to return as the Scarlet With at some point, of course, and there are rumors that she has already signed on to appear in a project that will shoot next year (be it the Disney+ Vision series or Avengers: Doomsday, or both).

What do you make of Olsen's comments? Let us know in the usual place.

"Marvel Studios' WandaVision blends the style of classic sitcoms with the Marvel Cinematic Universe in which Wanda Maximoff and Vision – two super-powered beings living their ideal suburban life – begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems."

In addition to Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany as the leads, WandaVision stars Kathryn Hahn, Teyonah Parris, Debra Jo Rupp, Randall Park, and Kat Dennings.

Following the success of the series, an "Agatha: Coven of Chaos" spin-off featuring the return of Hahn as Agatha Harkness was announced. We recently learned that this show would actually be titled Agatha All Along. Bettany's Vision is also set to return for his own series from Picard showrunner Terry Matalas. James Spader will be back as Ultron, and Todd Stashwick will also feature as a mysterious assassin.

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bobevanz
bobevanz - 9/8/2024, 10:08 AM
At least she's honest, I can't believe they made Strange's movie her movie. Whoever thought they could tie the shows and movies together and force people to watch so much mediocre content was truly baffling. It seems they learned from their mistakes
bobevanz
bobevanz - 9/8/2024, 10:11 AM
ALSO IT'S WHO-DEY DAY! 65K FANS WILL BE ROARING IN THE JUNGLE! see you there, time to whoop those Patriots
LeBronStan
LeBronStan - 9/8/2024, 10:27 AM
@bobevanz -Ravens got the AFC North buddy. Lamar is 8-2 against you guys, while also being 4-1 against Burrow. And who is Burrow throwing to today lol
bobevanz
bobevanz - 9/8/2024, 10:55 AM
@LeBronStan - Lamar is a choke master, we got his number this year lmao
bobevanz
bobevanz - 9/8/2024, 10:56 AM
Also It's Star Trek Day! Can we get some articles in this bish?
Typhoon20
Typhoon20 - 9/9/2024, 5:30 AM
@bobevanz - Bro you should have seen my reaction watching Dr Strange 2 sorry I mean Scarlet Witch and the multiverse of madness ft Dr Strange. That's thw hardest they shat on a main character. I felt no ill towards Scarlet Witch but now I legit can't wait for her end.
Matchesz
Matchesz - 9/8/2024, 10:23 AM
FORTIFY YOUR MINDS!! 👉😠👈
Fogs
Fogs - 9/8/2024, 10:46 AM
@Matchesz - It isn't really my mind that's fortified with that header pic
TheLobster
TheLobster - 9/8/2024, 10:28 AM
Wanda’s arc is truly one of the best and most fascinating arcs in the MCU… until Marvel decides to try a bullshit redemption arc once they bring her back.

That day is coming and it’ll be totally laughable once they do. Home girl has killed way too many to “redeem” her.
Fogs
Fogs - 9/8/2024, 10:47 AM
@TheLobster - Agreed. It was a nice arc but she's done as a hero. If they want her back, bring that variant from 838 and that's it.
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 9/8/2024, 10:34 AM
I may be in the minority (and i don't care) but i really dig Wanda's arc...thing is...with the mutants around the corner, i wouldn't redeem her so soon if we want to pull a House of M.

Even then it's all about her children so i also wouldn't like to repeat the same beats, ehh it's tricky but doable imho.
Cleander
Cleander - 9/8/2024, 10:57 AM
Age of Ultron she was a villain turned hero.
Civil War she accidentally killed 26 innocent civilians.
In WandaVision she was a villain that was psychologically torturing the residents of Westview.
The heel turn didnt start in Multiverse of Madness.
centuryson
centuryson - 9/8/2024, 11:20 AM
I thought Wanda was the most compelling and sympathetic character in the MCU. I loved the idea of turning her into a baddie. After so much loss, it makes sense that she would rage or go to any means necessary to hold onto what she loved, but Sam Rami did a horrible job with her character. He turned her into just another pointless CGI monster with no point of view. The character and actress deserved so much better. If she comes back, I hope it's with someone like the Russo Brothers manning the ship.
cubrn
cubrn - 9/8/2024, 11:27 AM
I think the same people who don't understand her character are also ones who think those with mental health issues can just move beyond them (IE telling somebody with depression to just start thinking happy thoughts). Her character has suffered massive trauma after trauma with little to no support. Of course she's going to relapse.
EskimoJ
EskimoJ - 9/8/2024, 12:20 PM
@cubrn - How is this statement both true and coping ::: SHUDDER ::: at the same time? 😅
cubrn
cubrn - 9/8/2024, 12:46 PM
@EskimoJ - I'm gifted
McMurdo
McMurdo - 9/8/2024, 4:51 PM
@cubrn - they repeated her arc by which she learned and extremely valuable lesson only to throw it away and make her repeat atrocities this time exemplified. They quite literally botched Wanda. And Olsen is based and quite evidently agrees.
cubrn
cubrn - 9/8/2024, 5:07 PM
@McMurdo - insanity is defined by repeating the same mistake twice
McMurdo
McMurdo - 9/8/2024, 5:53 PM
@cubrn - EXACTLY
Makiveli21
Makiveli21 - 9/8/2024, 11:33 AM
As soon as Sam Raimi said he never watched WandaVision her character was ruined. 5 million people watched that show but Marvel chose the one guy who didn’t to be in charge of her character. Even after Raimi got the Dr Strange job, he couldn’t find a random Tuesday night to binge Wandavision? No. Because he didn’t care. And you guys want this guy (who put webs in Peter’s wrists instead of actual webshooters) to be in charge of Spidey 4? No thanks.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 9/8/2024, 4:52 PM
@Makiveli21 - Raimi didn't write MoM. Waldron did.
BabyLasagna
BabyLasagna - 9/8/2024, 5:53 PM
@Makiveli21 - Raimi didnt have that fault, he was the director. I'm not a fan of the style but he did a decent job

The fault is on that Rick and Morty writer that didn't even bother watching Wandavision.

Even Olsen said she was like "dude we already did this in the show".
String
String - 9/8/2024, 8:52 PM
@McMurdo - Waldron hadn't watched WandaVision because it was still in production, but he did talk to Jac Schaeffer, so he knew what she was doing in that show. I believe he did MoM interviews stating he wanted to do justice to WandaVision but I think MoM was too deep in production for him to realize his views and Jac's were drastically different. Marvel Studios could have done better work on showing the progression of Wanda's madness under the Darkhold to make it more palpable to WandaVision fans, but they weren't thinking of those fans but on the film revealing her madness to fans at the same time it was revealed to Doctor Strange. There should had been some flashbacks incorporated into the film to flesh out the conversion to make it feel more organic to not just fans who watched WandaVision but those fans who last saw Wanda in Infinity War/Endgame heroically tackling Thanos. Elizabeth Olsen is right when she says Marvel "they kind of didn't know what to do with me for a second there". They really didn't. But I'm glad about Agatha All Along I think Marvel Studios has a future plan for her character.
Radders
Radders - 9/9/2024, 2:44 AM
@String - True but MoM did 6 weeks of reshoots after WamdaVision came out so they could have made some changes
McMurdo
McMurdo - 9/9/2024, 1:50 PM
@String - the film makes it feel like Wanda has agency and it's more her decision to go the route she does than an evil book. Had they gone the evil book route I think it'd have been much less problematic. But makes sense on Waldron I had no idea that Wandavision was still in production when he wrote mom. Strange Feige didn't see how problematic it would be post Wandavision narratively speaking
Amaru
Amaru - 9/8/2024, 11:35 AM
Your headline is such click bait lol.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 9/8/2024, 12:08 PM
@Amaru - Her words!
Amaru
Amaru - 9/8/2024, 3:32 PM
@MarkCassidy - You know what you did! lol
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 9/8/2024, 12:20 PM
Nice thumbnail at least.
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 9/8/2024, 12:37 PM
"and they kind of didn't know what to do with me for a second there!"

She's right, the character was done dirty in Dr. Strange 2. All the writers had to do was stick to the two-issue story from Avengers 186 to 187 and unveil Ch'ton as the villain pulling the strings, and it would have been a pretty awesome movie.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 9/8/2024, 1:34 PM
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