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I have been sorting through my exclusive photoshoots, and here are four shoots that I’m finishing up with this update. Now, a lot of the pictures might look the same when they’re in thumbnail form, but they have very subtle differences. The Variety shoot has a lot of photos that are almost exactly the same. You’d have to save them and compare them on your computer, but I have scanned them many times to double-check. I have a bunch of small shoots to finish posting before I start with the bigger shoots – 2019 InStyle, 2019 Who What Wear, 2021 InStyle Mexico, 2018 Avengers: Infinity War, and 2022 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Da’Vine Joy Randolph and John Early also star in the romantic comedy that hits theaters in November after premiering at TIFF.
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER – Elizabeth Olsen has a big decision ahead of her in the trailer for the A24 feature Eternity.
Miles Teller and Callum Turner also star in the romantic comedy from director David Freyne. The movie is set to premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival ahead of its theatrical release in November. John Early, Olga Merediz and Oscar winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph round out the cast.
Eternity is set in an afterlife where souls are granted one week to pick where they will spend eternity. After she dies, Joan (Olsen) must choose between Larry (Teller), with whom she shared her life, and her first love, Luke (Turner), who died many years ago.
“A lot has happened in a week,” a confused Olsen tells Teller in the trailer. “You died. I died. I’ve just been reunited with both of my dead husbands, and I have to pick where to spend eternity.”
reyne helmed the film from a script he co-wrote with Pat Cunnane, whose original screenplay landed on the Black List in 2022. Tim White and Trevor White serve as producers.
Olsen’s recent features have included The Assessment and His Three Daughters. Teller recently led in the Apple TV+ movie The Gorge and has a role in next year’s Michael Jackson biopic Michael. Turner starred in last year’s Apple TV+ series Masters of the Air.
During an interview with Extra from earlier this year, Olsen gave hints about Eternity. “It’s real fun,” the actress said at the time. “It’s a callback to Billy Wilder films. I think it’s gonna be a special romantic comedy that we’re all really proud of. I’m excited for it to come out this year.”
DEADLINE Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Elizabeth Olsen has joined Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac to co-star in vampire thriller Flesh Of The Gods from director Panos Cosmatos (Mandy).
Isaac and Stewart will portray Raoul and Alex, a married couple in glittering ’80s L.A. who descend each evening from their luxury skyscraper condo and head into an electric nighttime realm. When they cross paths with the mysterious and enigmatic Nameless (Olsen) and her hard-partying cabal, Raoul and Alex are seduced into a glamorous, surrealistic world of hedonism, thrills and violence.
The film is written by Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en) based on a story by Cosmatos and Walker, and is produced by Adam McKay and Betsy Koch of Hyperobject Industries and Gena Konstantinakos and Isaac for Mad Gene Media.
Domestic rights are co-repped by CAA Media Finance and WME Independent, with XYZ Films continuing international sales at this week’s Cannes market. No date yet for start of shoot as schedules get aligned.
The movie returns Stewart to her vampire roots after the global sensation that was the Twilight franchise.
Olsen is is known for playing Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and the Disney+ series WandaVision. She made her breakthrough in the critically acclaimed indie thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene, and has also starring in Wind River, Ingrid Goes West, and Godzilla, among others.
Flesh of the Gods marks the fourth collaboration between Cosmatos and XYZ, as they produced the upcoming Miley Cyrus film Something Beautiful, which will debut at the Tribeca Film Festival in June. They also have Nekrokosm in development with A24.
Upcoming titles from XYZ Films include Banquet, starring Meghann Fahy and directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia; the SXSW thriller Hallow Road, directed by Babak Anvari and starring Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys; and The Trip starring Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Juliette Lewis and Timothy Olyphant, which is currently in post-production.
Olsen is repped by CAA, Brillstein and Sloane, Offer.
NPR A note from Wild Card host Rachel Martin: Being a supervillain is exhausting. You spend a lot of energy thinking about how to mess with your enemies. Using your actual superpowers is totally draining. And once you’re in that supervillain box, it can be hard to escape. Unless you’re Elizabeth Olsen. She first showed up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe about a decade ago as Wanda Maximoff. And by 2021, she was flying around wreaking havoc as the Scarlet Witch in WandaVision.
And while Olsen hasn’t closed the door on that character, we have definitely seen her talent unfold in some totally different directions over the last few years. I, for one, am sort of obsessed with her performance in the Netflix show Love and Death from 2023. She plays a sweet and loving housewife who brutally murders her husband’s lover. And when I watched how Elizabeth Olsen held all the contradictions of that character at the same time, I knew I was going to be seeing a lot more of her.
Her newest film is called The Assessment, and in it, Elizabeth plays a woman in the not-so-distant future, living in some kind of protected society because the Earth has been destroyed, and she’s got to pass this nightmare of a test in order to be granted the chance to have a baby.
This Wild Card interview has been edited for length and clarity. Host Rachel Martin asks guests randomly-selected questions from a deck of cards. Tap play above to listen to the full podcast, or read an excerpt below.
Question 1: What’s something someone told you that changed your trajectory?
Elizabeth Olsen: I didn’t have any mentors growing up and I felt like I was very self-motivated and I didn’t listen to a lot of people’s opinions within my family, and I just kind of kept doing what I wanted to do.
Rachel Martin: Did your parents try to nudge you away from acting? I mean, we have to just acknowledge your two older sisters were in Full House, Mary-Kate and Ashley. And so it’s not like it was totally foreign to you, that world.
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WNYCA new sci-fi thriller starring Elizabeth Olsen is set in the not-so-distant future, where a couple hoping to have a child must undergo a seven-day evaluation to determine their fitness as parents. Olsen discusses her role as a prospective mother in “The Assessment,” now in theaters.
Transcript:
Kousha Navidar: This is All Of It on WNYC. I’m Kousha Navidar, filling in for Alison Stewart. You’ve probably heard the phrase it takes a village to raise a child. What if village leadership was in charge of saying who could and could not have a child? That’s the premise of the new sci-fi thriller. It’s called The Assessment. It stars Elizabeth Olsen as Mia and Himesh Patel as Aaryan, a couple looking to become parents in a future ravaged by natural disasters which has made parts of the world uninhabitable. Fortunately for them, everyone in their society gets to live a calm life where medical treatment allows them to significantly slow the aging process, but the government maintains a very strict control of resources. This means couples who want a child must undergo a rigorous, and I’m talking rigorous, seven-day evaluation to determine who’s fit to be a parent and to prevent overpopulation. The assessor stays with the couple the entire time. The assessor scrutinizes all aspects of the couple’s lives. Living conditions, work, intimacy, their relationship with their own parents. It’s everything. The Assessment is now playing in theaters. Actor Elizabeth Olsen, we are lucky to have her just across the table right now. She joins us to discuss. Elizabeth, welcome back to All Of It.
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Olsen wore a mint green lace gown from Erdem’s spring 2025 collection, with a contrasting pink bow at the shoulder. The “Assessment” star paired her asymmetrical draped midi dress with a pair of nude pointed-toe heels and drop earrings dangling with pearl-laden hoops. Olsen completed her look with a cranberry lip, light blush and blush eyeshadow.
Last year, bows were impossible to miss on the red carpet and the runways for fall 2024. Between the Critics Choice Awards and the fall 2024 collections for Sandy Liang and Prada, the traditional accent became a main event with plentiful takes on it. Olsen’s entry to the trend, though, is a markedly relaxed take on the breakout embellishment.
The collection Olsen’s gown hails from was rife with avant, flowing takes on bows, whether at the shoulders of pastel dresses or at the hips of drop waist dresses or tailored jackets. Erdem‘s spring 2025 collection filtered the trend through a 1920s lens and consisted largely of pastel shades, including the pale pink and mint green on Olsen’s lace dress.
Mint has been a popular color choice on the red carpet over the past year, with Dakota Fanning, Simone Ashley and Jill Biden all stepping out in the soft shade.
Olsen was in attendance at the Independent Spirit Awards 2025 in support of her 2023 film “His Three Daughters” with Carrie Coon and Natasha Lyonne, for which director Azazel Jacobs was given the Robert Altman Award.
The 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards, held on Feb. 22 in Santa Monica and hosted by Aidy Bryant, honor the best performances, writing and direction in independent film in 2024. “Anora” and “I Saw the TV Glow” lead the field with six nominations each.
This year’s red carpet at the Independent Spirit Awards also brought out Emma Stone, Hunter Schafer, Julianne Moore, Lily Gladstone, Demi Moore, Ryan Destiny, Julia Fox, Colman Domingo, Mikey Madison and more.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY The Film Independent Spirit Awards returned with their 40th ceremony on Saturday, with Anora, its star Mikey Madison, and director Sean Baker dominating the film category awards. Baby Reindeer led in the TV acting category winners, though Shōgun took the New Scripted Series award.
Saturday Night Live alum Aidy Bryant hosted the awards show, which honors independent and low-budget film projects and television. The ceremony took place in Santa Monica and streamed live on Film Independent’s YouTube channel and X (formerly Twitter) feed.
The Indie Spirits are a distinct organization in the awards season landscape because they’re specifically designed to focus on smaller film productions — to qualify for the awards, the maximum budget a movie can have is $28 million (though there’s no budget cap on the TV side — the shows just have to be new this year).
As a result, the Indie Spirits only sometimes overlap with the Oscars — smaller-budget films like Everything Everywhere All at Once, Nomadland, and Moonlight have all found major success with both awards bodies, whereas movies like Past Lives have triumphed at the Spirits in years when higher-budget productions like Oppenheimer win big at the Academy Awards.
Another key distinction that sets the Indie Spirits apart from other awards shows: all acting categories at the Indie Spirits are gender-neutral, so there are fewer categories overall for both film and TV: Best Lead Performance, Best Supporting Performance, and Best Breakthrough Performance for both mediums, plus a Best Ensemble Cast on the TV side.
Anora and I Saw the TV Glow dominated the film category nominations with five each, with Anora winning three awards overall. Shōgun led the TV field, with five nominations, though it won only one award for Best New Scripted Series. Projects like Dìdi, Baby Reindeer, and English Teacher all received four nominations each, with Didi winning in two categories and Baby Reindeer winning three. The Apprentice, Janet Planet, Sing Sing, and Agatha All Along all garnered three nominations apiece, but saw no awards between them.
Robert Altman Award
WINNER: His Three Daughters
Director: Azazel Jacobs
Casting Director: Nicole Arbusto
Ensemble Cast: Jovan Adepo, Jasmine Bracey, Carrie Coon, Jose Febus, Rudy Galvan, Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, Randy Ramos Jr., and Jay O. Sanders
The Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award is presented to the ensemble cast, director and casting director of a film by the Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers. It is named after director, screenwriter, and producer Robert Altman, who is considered a “maverick” in naturalistic films.
