WandaVision aired its season (series?) finale last Friday (you can check out our review here), and while most viewers seemed to enjoy the episode overall, many were disappointed by the lack of any major cameos or reveals.
Of course, the show can't be held accountable for fan-theories not panning out (even if Paul Bettany and Teyonah Parris did raise expectations during interviews), but the story did seem to be building towards a more surprising/exciting explanation for what was going on in Westview, and Evan Peters' "Pietro" being revealed as some random dude named Ralph Bohner was a major let down for a lot of people.
While chatting about the final episode with Variety, star Elizabeth Olsen was asked about these wild theories and whether she was aware of some of the expectations fans had going in.
"I knew that there are theories that had to do with people wanting more surprises in cameos. But I’m not really that aware of what these fan theories were, so I’m kind of learning about it as we go. Paul said something about this crazy cameo when he was really just talking about doing a scene with himself, and I know Paul thought that was a really funny joke, and I thought it was funny. But I was like, I think people are actually going to suspect that there is more to come.
I didn’t know about the multiverse when we were filming this. So I wouldn’t assume that that’s what was happening. I thought it was just a clever way to have a Pietro. I didn’t understand the larger plan of the multiverse until I started working on “Multiverse,” or whatever our movie’s called, the Doctor Strange sequel! [Laughs]"
Speaking of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the scene with the Scarlet Witch hearing the voices of the twins while reading the Darkhold seems like a clever way to tie-in to the Marvel Studios sequel.. right?
Unfortunately, if Olsen knows anything she's not willing to divulge, and reveals that she hasn't actually watched "The Series Finale" of WandaVision yet so wasn't sure which post-credits tag they ended up using!
"I didn’t know my part in Doctor Strange until right before we got back to filming during the pandemic," says the actress. "We had two months left, and we’d filmed the majority of our show already. Really, I knew nothing until that moment when they pitched to me verbally. So I tried, as much as I could, almost less so to have it affect WandaVision as have WandaVision affect it. I think that’s really been where the connection is. It’s almost like we’re trying to make sure that everything is honoring what we did [on the show]."
Were you guys satisfied with how WandaVision wrapped-up? How do you see The Scarlet Witch's story continuing in Doctor Strange 2? Let us know in the comments section.