Although she comes from a famous family of shows and now plays in her Marvel TV series after appearing in multiple Avengers blockbusters, Elizabeth Olsen started making indie movies, as the cult story of 2011 Martha Marcy May Marlene. So what inspired the transition from art-house to multiplex?
Thinkinghe, uh, obvious reasons why any actor would want to think bigger (more fame, more money, all those brilliant things) were undoubtedly part of the equation, Olsen specifically linked his ambitions her love for a certain franchise from a galaxy far, far away. Into the an interview with Collider, she explained that she told the agent and manager that she wanted to focus her career on the specifics movies he liked to watch as a child.
“I was obsessed with Star Wars. You couldn’t take me away Star Wars like a child. So I tried to figure out how to start putting that in there, because I feel like all I get are these really disturbed women in independent movies, “Olsen said, before laughing and pointing. regarding Wanda “[Now] she’s just a troubled woman in a big franchise! ”
Her representatives advised her to do so “take meetings with the people who run these companies and that’s what we literally did, ”Olsen continued. “I met Kevin [Feige] and a few other people working there at the time. And then I met the people who ran Legendary [the studio that produced Godzilla, Olsen’s first big blockbuster] then. And there were a few others in different places. ”
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Go to Collider read (or watch) the whole interview, which also shows Olsen talking about what it was like to go from playing with Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Godzilla (playing his wife) starring opposite Taylor-Johnson in Avengers: Age of Ultron (playing her twin sister). Because you know you’ve always wondered about that!
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