Russo Brothers Address a Change to Scarlet Witch in INFINITY WAR

If you have not seen Avengers: Infinity War, be warned that there are very minor spoilers ahead.

If you’ve seen the film, you’ll know that Scarlet Witch has no accent. This has led to many fans criticizing Elizabeth Olsen, saying she was lazy and stuff like that. It turns out that it was not her choice, but the choice of directors Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. In a recent episode of Happy Sad Confused, the directorial brothers were asked a lot of questions about the movie (it’s all pretty interesting) and among them was this idea that Scarlet Witch doesn’t have her Sokovian accent anymore. Here’s their reasoning:

We have intentionally tried to strip that accent away for a couple of reasons. One is you’ll notice at the beginning of Civil War that Black Widow is training her to be a spy, and two is she’s been on the run, and one of the most distinguishing characteristics that she has is her accent. So if you’re gonna try to disguise yourself or hide yourself or not be caught, you’re going to try to limit those trigger warnings that would make it easy for someone to identify you, which would be inclusive of her accent. Clearly Black Widow as a red head is an incredibly distinguishing characteristic for her, which is why she has blonde hair. Cap, we’ve seen Chris Evans walk around in public with a beard and no one recognizes him. There are simple things you can do to your appearance that take about 90% of your visibility away, and for us it was very intentional that we would just keep stripping that accent down to show her acclimating and hiding.

It makes sense that all the characters would need to change things about themselves, so I’m willing to buy it. I honestly was so sucked into the movie that I didn’t notice she didn’t have an accent until the movie was over.

Avengers: Infinity War is in theaters now.

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