Although she comes from famous show biz family and now starring your own Marvel TV Series after appearing in multiple Avengers blockbusters, Elizabeth Olsen he started making independent films, like the 2011 cult tale Martha Marcy May Marlene. So what inspired your move from the art house to the multiplex?
Although the, eh obvious reasons any actor would want to think bigger (more fame, more money, all this brilliant)) were undoubtedly part of the equation, Olsen specifically tied his ambitions his love for a particular franchise of a very, very distant galaxy. In an interview with Collider, explained this he told his agent and manager that he wanted to steer his career toward specific direction movies he enjoyed watching as a child.
“I was obsessed with Star Wars. You couldn’t let me go Star Wars as a child. And so I was trying to figure out, how I’m starting to put it here because I feel like all I have are these really disturbed women in independent films, ”Olsen said, before laughing and pointing out, as for Wanda, “[Now] she’s just a disturbed woman in a big franchise! ”
His representatives advised him “to take meetings with the people who run these companies and I have done so literally, ”Olsen continued. “I met Kevin [Feige] and a couple more people who were working there at the time. And then I met the people who ran Legendary [the studio that produced Godzilla, Olsen’s first big blockbuster] at the time. And there were a few more in different places.
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Towards Collider to read (or look) the whole interview, where Olsen also appears talking about what it was like to go from co-starring with Aaron Taylor-Johnson to Godzilla (playing his wife) to co-star with Taylor-Johnson a Avengers: Age of Ultron (playing her twin sister). Because you know you’ve always wondered about that!
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