Although they comes from one famous showbiz family, and she now plays in her own Marvel TV series after appearing in multiple Avengers blockbusters, Elizabeth Olsen started making indie films, like the cult story from 2011 Martha Marcy May Marlene. So what inspired her switch from arthouse to plywood?
Although the, uh, obvious reasons any actor would want to think bigger (more fame, more money, all that shiny stuff) were no doubt part of the equation, Olsen specifically expresses her ambitions her love for a particular franchise from a galaxy far, far away. In an interview with Collider, she explained she told her agent and manager she wanted to steer her career toward the specific movies she loved to watch as a child.
“I was obsessed with Star Wars. You couldn’t peel me off it Star Wars like a child. And so I tried to figure out, how do I start to get that out there, because I feel like all I get is these really crazy women in independent movies, ”said Olsen, before laughing and pointing, regarding Wanda , “[Now] it’s just a crazy woman in a big franchise! “
Her representatives advised her to do so “meeting with the people who run these companies and I literally did, ”Olsen continued. “I met Kevin [Feige] and a few other people who worked there at the time. And then I met the people who were running Legendary [the studio that produced Godzilla, Olsen’s first big blockbuster] at that moment. And there were a few more in different places. “
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Go to Collider read (or look) the entire interview, in which Olsen also talks about what it was like to work with Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Godzilla (plays his wife) to team up with Taylor-Johnson Avengers: Age of Ultron (plays his twin sister). Because you know you’ve always wondered that!
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