Elizabeth Olsen Discusses Scarlet Witch "Coming Into Her Own" in CIVIL WAR

Elizabeth Olsen will be back in action as Scarlet Witch using her magical finger tweaking powers to fight in Joe and Anthony Russo's Captain America: Civil War. During a recent interview with USA Today, the actress talked about her character, Marvel's secrecy, and also offered some new information regarding her character in Civil War. In regards to playing Wanda Maximoff, she says:

"It’s so crazy and mind-blowing being part of something that has that wide audience internationally. I am loving every time I get to go back to playing Scarlet Witch, and it is really nice to have the balance of doing something character driven and dramatic. It’s very technical, these Marvel movies."

Olsen goes on to discusses the physical movements that she performs in the role as she throws out her crazy spells in the heat of battle:

"I have a movement coach for the way she throws her hexes so I’m very protective over that. 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."

She then discusses the crazy lengths that Marvel goes through to secure the secrecy on the film projects that they make:

"When you get the pages that you’re filming that day, you’re not allowed to take those home with you. 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."

The conversation then moved to her role in Civil War, she said that Scarlet Witch is "coming into her own and starting to understand and have conflict with how she wants to use her abilities." She continued, saying:

"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."

I'm curious to see where exactly Marvel ends up taking this character. I really like her, and it's great that they are going to allow her to grow in this universe. Captain America: Civil War comes out in theaters on May 6th, 2016.

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