Elizabeth Olsen Wants To Branch Out Beyond Marvel’s Scarlet Witch: ‘I Just Need Other Characters In My Life’

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Elizabeth Olsen made her Marvel debut as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch in 2013’s “Captain America and the Winter Soldier”. Since then, she’s played the character in numerous other Marvel projects, including “Aveengers: Age of Ultron”, “Captain America: Civil War”, “Avengers: Infinity War”, “Avengers: Endgame”, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”, and the Disney+ series “WandaVision”.

While she’s managed to slide in a few other projects (i.e. the TV series “Sorry for Your Loss” and, most recently, the miniseries “Love & Death”), she’s ready to play more roles that aren’t within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. READ MORE: Elizabeth Olsen On What She Learned From ‘Sitcom Bootcamp’ To Prep For ‘WandaVision’ “I’m trying to figure out… Because, specifically in the last four years, my output has been Marvel,” she said in a recent interview (conducted prior to the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike) with The Times of London. “I don’t want… it’s not that I don’t want to be associated as just this character.

But I really feel like I need to be building other parts back up for balance,” she explained. “I so much want to do films right now.

And I hope some of them come together in the way I feel like they can,” she continued. “But yeah, that’s something that I need,” she added. “I just need other characters in my life.