Elizabeth Olsen Shares How Her Love of STAR WARS Led Her To Playing Scarlet Witch For Marvel

Elizabeth Olsen has been wonderful in the role of Wanda Maximoff a.k.a. Scarlet Witch in the Marvel franchise. Before she landed at Marvel, she was starring in a lot of little indie films playing disturbed characters and she wanted to do something different. She wanted to be a part of the big fun movies, the ones that she enjoyed watching when she was growing up like Star Wars.

In fact, it was specifically Star Wars that inspired her to be a part of these kinds of films. During a recent interview with Collider, Olsen shared how her love of Star Wars led her to Marvel where she currently plays Scarlet Witch. She said:

“It was actually a funny decision I had put out in the world. I talked to my agent, my manager who are like my other mothers. I just love them so much. And I told them, ‘I want to be considered for the projects that I grew up …’ - like, as a kid, looking at Star Wars and I was obsessed with Star Wars. You couldn’t peel me away from Star Wars as a child. And so I was trying to figure out, how do I start putting that out there because I feel like all I’m getting are these really disturbed women in independent films. [Now] it’s just a disturbed woman in a big franchise! They said take meetings with the people who run these companies and so I literally did. I met with Kevin [Feige] and a couple other people that were working there at the time. And then I met with the people who were running Legendary at the time. And there were a few others in different places.”

Who knows, maybe one day Olsen will end up in a Star Wars movie. In the meantime, she’s got a long road ahead in the MCU. On top of WandaVision, she is set to star in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. I imagine that won’t be the last that we see of her, and it’s going to be interesting to see exactly how her story arc continues to play out.