Elizabeth Olsen on DOCTOR STRANGE 2, Says It Features "Totally Different Utilizations" of Scarlet Witch
Elizabeth Olsen recently teased that we’ll be seeing a different side of her Marvel character Scarlet Witch in Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. While talking to Variety, she explained that the film features “totally different utilizations” of her character.
"I wrapped WandaVision on a Wednesday and flew to London on a Friday to continue playing this part [in Doctor Strange 2]. I could have used getting out of the mindset, though, because they were totally different utilizations of the character and people would have had more time to understand WandaVision had we not just wrapped. And so there's just a lot of, 'We covered this in WandaVision…'"
She went on to explain that this film is bigger than her and that there are elements of the story that she’s not even aware of yet:
"It's bigger than me, there's lots of threads that are continuing on after me that I'm not aware of, and so it's always about, 'What can I get from this journey with this character that maybe I haven't tapped into yet with her?' That's where I keep approaching things from, so that I feel like I have some sort of strap-hang – that I can know that there's going to be growth of some kind, even though it all maybe looks the same to other people. There is that conscious decision to learn a new element of this woman, or even of myself as an actor – something that I want to explore that I can bring to it."
There have been rumors that Scarlet Witch could be a villainous character in the movie, but I’m not so sure about that. I’m curious to see how exactly her character will be utilized in this story and how it will build on her story arc. I loved where the WandaVision series ended up taking her character and her place in the MCU will change dramatically because of it.
WandaVision ended with Wanda becoming the Scarlet Witch and obtaining the Darkhold, a powerful and ancient spellbook, and she made the full transformation into Scarlet Witch.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is set to be released on March 25, 2022.