Elizabeth Olsen doesn’t really like Marvel films: “I’m very honest on it!”

“I have not always managed to make career choices in accordance with my personal tastes …”

Obviously, you are not likely to meet Elizabeth Olsen In a projecting cinema room Captain America 4 Or Thunderbolts ! The star of MCUwho played The red witch For a decade, disappeared from the universe Marvel In recent years and has not, a priori, want to go back. Because she doesn’t like movies Marvel.

“I think I have not always managed to make career choices in accordance with my personal tastes”she recently launched in the podcast Wild Card with Rachel Martin broadcast on NPR. She insists: “It is a truth and it is something that I try to prove, again and again, when I meet people from industry and discuss with them. “ According to Elizabeth Olsenhis role of Wanda Maximoff – alias The red witch – Has shaped the perception that industry has of it.

“”Especially when it comes to professional meetings, I want to be able to express my real tastes in terms of cinema or literature. And I find myself still having to show this facet of my personality. “

Elizabeth Olsen does not hide behind his little finger and explains without tongue of wood to have “After so many years in the Marvel universe that now, each project outside of it must really reflect what I like. Please note: I loved being part of this universe, I am proud of what I could bring to the character. But Marvel films are not at all what I consume, what I look at artistically speaking. And I am very honest on it! “

Elizabeth Olsen made his first steps in the MCU In 2014, during a post-generic appearance in Captain America: The Winter Soldierbefore being officially introduced in Avengers: Age of Ultron the following year. Since then, she has chained blockbusters: Avengers: Infinity War,, Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madnessand especially the series Wandavision on Disney+which earned him an appointment to the Emmy Awards.

So why did you agree to join Marvel at the time? “I found that these stories had an almost mythological dimension, like Greek tragedies, with a real look at politics, culture … It was very well constructed. I was proud to participate. But today, there is a kind of problem to be part of it: it has become a position, almost a militant act, to say that we would do – or that we would never do – a Marvel film!”