Welcome to Elizabeth Olsen Source: your best source for all things related to Elizabeth Olsen. Elizabeth's breakthrough came in 2011 when she starred in critically-acclaimed movies Martha Marcy May Marlene and Silent House. She made her name in indie movies until her role in 2014 blockbuster Godzilla and then as Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff in Marvel's Avengersand Captain America movies. Elizabeth starred in and was an Executive Producer for Facebook Watch's "Sorry For Your Loss". She is currently starring in WandaVision, the first Marvel TV Series on Disney+. She will also be in Marvel's Dr. Strange sequel and hopefully we'll see another indie movie from her! Enjoy the many photos(including lots of exclusives!), articles, and videos on our site!
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Video: Conversations at Home with WANDAVISION

A Q&A with Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Teyonah Parris, Kathryn Hahn, Kat Dennings, and Randall Park of WANDAVISION. Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Variety.

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May 27 2021
Press: Stars of Marvel’s ‘Loki,’ ‘WandaVision’ and ‘Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ Join Variety’s Virtual TV Fest

VARIETY: Variety is pleased to announce the final programming for its second annual Virtual TV Festival, presented by Amazon Advertising, airing on June 8, 9 and 10. An exclusive panel with the stars of Marvel’s “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” “Loki” and “WandaVision” will premiere on Wednesday, June 9. This will be the first time that the stars of all three shows will appear together in one panel. Paul Bettany, Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan will come together to talk about the three shows and how they co-exist in the Marvel Universe.

In addition, Variety will host a “Women in Late Night” panel with Samantha Bee (“Full Frontal With Samantha Bee”), Phoebe Robinson (“Doing the Most With Phoebe Robinson”), Amber Ruffin (“The Amber Ruffin Show”) and Ziwe (“Ziwe”). The women will discuss the changing landscape of late-night programming on network and streaming services.

Variety’s Virtual TV Fest features a keynote conversation, “Reaching TV Streaming Audiences With Amazon”, in which Marie Donoghue, vice president of global sports video, Amazon; Ryan Pirozzi, co-head of content and programming, IMDb TV; and Lauren Anderson, co-head of content and programming, IMDb TV discuss Amazon’s ad-supported streaming video content.

“Amazon Advertising is thrilled to partner with Variety on TV Fest, and speak about our robust TV content, including live sports and IMDb TV,” said Mark Eamer, VP, OTT, brand advertising at IMDb TV. “Today’s TV audiences want a compelling and convenient viewing experience, and we look forward to highlighting our on-demand and live options for sports, originals, and catalog favorites with TV Fest attendees.”

A Documentary roundtable with the producers and directors of some of the top Emmy-contending projects will include:

Josh Kriegman, executive producer and director, “Couples Therapy” (Showtime)

Hao Wu, director and producer, “76 Days” (MTV Documentary Films)

Brian Armstrong, executive producer, co-director and co-writer, “Secret of the Whales” (Disney Plus)

Stephen Kijack, producer and director, “Equal” (HBO Max)

Matthew Heineman, director, “The Boy From Medellin” (Amazon Prime)

Jehane Noujaim, executive producer and director, “The Vow” (HBO)

Christina Clusiau, director, “Immigration Nation” (Netflix)

Jane Cha, executive producer, “Dear…” (Apple TV Plus)

Rashidi Harper, executive producer, “Hip Hop Uncovered” (FX)

Variety’s TV Fest will also feature a non-fiction reality roundtable featuring Heidi Schreck, executive producer, “What the Constitution Means to Me”; Padma Lakshmi, host and executive producer, “Taste the Nation With Padma Lakshmi”; Smriti Mundhra, creator and executive producer, “Indian Matchmaking,” and Steve James, director, producer, cinematographer, editor, “City So Real.”

The panel discussion “Artisans of Unscripted” will feature Jamal Sims, choreographer, “RuPaul’s Drag Race”; Leland, music and lyrics, “RuPaul’s Drag Race”; James McGowan, set design, “The Challenge: Double Agents and The Real World” and Skye Topic, casting, “The Challenge: Double Agents.”

May 22 2021
Press: How The ‘WandaVision’ Stars Became Acquainted With Their Marvel Characters – Contenders TV

 

DEADLINE: Across five MCU movies, Elizabeth Olsen has played the sorceress Wanda Maximoff aka Scarlet Witch, but it arguably wasn’t until the Disney+ series WandaVision that she saw the character in her entire zenith.

A master of chaos magic and a native of the fictional war-torn Eastern European country of Sokovia, Wanda saw the villainous Ultron destroy the capital city and her twin brother Pietro along with it before she teamed with the Avengers. WandaVision takes place in the events following the team’s fight with Bad Guy Thanos in the town of Westview. It’s a town Wanda has taken over quite literally to live an American family life with her android beau Vision.

Westview is a place that Wanda has literally created in her vision, inspired by the sitcoms she grew up watching as a child in Sokovia, i.e., The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched, Family Ties and more.

“She for the first time has this sense of agency and making her own decisions that she hasn’t really had. She was kind of moved around a bit based on circumstances. This was something, even if she was aware of it or not, she completely controlled on her own even to a fault and by the end of it has great accountability. That was the newest journey for her and the processing of her experiences,” Olsen said during the series’ panel at Deadline’s Contender Television awards-season event.

Teyonah Parris plays Monica Rambeau, a SWORD agent who is a quiet ally of Wanda’s monitoring her from outside the shell of Westview which she’s created. Monica’s boss at SWORD is looking to defeat Wanda. The last time we saw Monica, she was 11 years old in the 2019 feature Captain Marvel.

In informing her performance, Parris combed the Marvel comics, reading up on the legacy of Rambeau, and “looking at the young actress Akira Akbar and her performance (in Captain Marvel) and her relationship with Carol Danvers and Maria her mom.”

As Agnes, the noisy next-door neighbor-turned-villain Agatha, Kathryn Hahn had a deep sitcom trove to pull from, especially in regards to the former. But there was one person in particular who shined through in her portrayal.

“My maternal grandmother,” said Hahn, who was nominated for a supporting actress comedy series Emmy for Transparent in 2017. “I heard her sing-song voice, definite [during] the ’50s and ’60s [eras]; everything ended on a question. She was in there.”

May 22 2021
Press/Gallery: WandaVision’s Elizabeth Olsen on feminism, famous sisters and playing a witch called Wanda

WandaVision’s Elizabeth Olsen on feminism, famous sisters and finding her power.

It’s the biggest show on TV right now and has catapulted Elizabeth Olsen to a level of fame that’s eclipsed her twin sisters, Mary-Kate and Ashley. GLAMOUR’s Entertainment Director & Assistant Editor Emily Maddick meets the down-to-earth ‘Lizzie’ for a candid chat on everything from social media to sorcery, what her siblings have taught her and what female power means to her.

 

GLAMOUR UK: Winding down quintessential English country lanes to the GLAMOUR April digital cover shoot – the first IRL in over a year – with Elizabeth Olsen, superstar of WandaVision, there is a palpable sense of excitement in the air. The theme of this issue is ‘fresh start’ and despite the onset drizzle, one can feel the sense of optimism and hope as the UK starts to open up for spring after our long, long winter of lockdown.

Elizabeth has been living in leafy Richmond [she ‘loves’ it] with her musician fiancé Robbie Arnett since October, while filming another Marvel franchise, Dr Strange 2, alongside Benedict Cumberbatch. “It’s a bonkers movie, they’re definitely going for that horror show vibe,” she tells me.

She’s especially looking forward to her local Petersham Nurseries restaurant opening up again, but today she is being photographed in the beautiful grounds of a 17th century mill house in Surrey. Her appearance in a patterned fuchsia Schiaparelli trouser suit and magenta tie-dyed Christian Dior denim corduroy suit against the backdrop of the English country garden is almost as marvellously incongruous as her portrayal of Wandavision’s suburban ‘housewife’ Wanda Maximoff’s use of magic to make plates fly across the kitchen or rustle up three-course dinners at the click of a finger.

Indeed, the ‘fresh start’ theme for her GLAMOUR cover is a fitting theme for Wanda. For those uninitiated in the complexities of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s latest offering, each episode of WandaVision blends the style of classic sitcoms through the ages (think Bewitched, The Brady Bunch right up to Modern Family) with Marvel characters, Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch and Vision (co-star Paul Bettany.) It takes place following the events of 2019’s film Avengers: Endgame with the two super-powered beings making a fresh start in an idyllic suburbia as husband and wife, but suspecting that everything is not as it seems. Spoiler Alert! It’s not… and the fantasy starts to unravel – along with Wanda herself.

The show has been heralded as the most feminist of all Marvel outputs to date and touches on a lot of pertinent issues, including mental health, and women’s power and empowerment. In person, Elizabeth in contrast to her on-screen character, seems grounded, open, down-to-earth and, dare I say it, remarkably ‘normal’. In fact, she tells me “‘Just be normal’ is one of my favourite things to say; ‘be normal and be kind.’”

Of course, given her now bonafide A-list status as the star of one of the biggest shows on earth (in February, the Disney+ Marvel spinoff was the most in-demand streamed programme worldwide across all platforms), Elizabeth is anything but normal – as I’m reminded when I clock her whopping great big chauffeur-driven Maserati purring outside the mill house. Her fame has now even eclipsed that of her famous-since-birth twin sisters, Mary-Kate and Ashley. When WandaVision launched in January, legions of fans went into social media meltdown after discovering that Elizabeth was the child-stars-turned fashion designers’ younger sister. (More on them coming up.)
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April 21 2021
Gallery: Marvel’s Assembled: The Making of WandaVision

In case you missed it, you can watch Assembled: The Making of WandaVision on Disney+ now! 

 

March 13 2021
Press/Video: Jimmy Fallon Takes a WandaVision Trip Through Late-Night History With Elizabeth Olsen

VULTURE: Everyone is obsessed with WandaVision, including, apparently, Jimmy Fallon. He’s so obsessed that he even imagined himself inside the TV show about a grieving Marvel superhero who imagines herself inside other TV shows. Kids, feel free to use this sentence in English class when your teacher asks you to explain what “meta” means.

In a new sketch called “FallonVision,” debuting right here on Vulture ahead of its broadcast on Fallon’s late-night show tonight, the host hops through time and several iterations of The Tonight Show. Elizabeth Olsen, the star of WandaVision and a guest on The Tonight Show this evening, is present throughout the whole journey in the role of the actress-guest who always behaves decade-appropriately. “Water?” she quips in the 1950s, before taking a sip and adding, “Well, that’s an odd way to pronounce ‘rum punch.’” In the ’70s, she smokes a cigarette (not necessarily of the nicotine variety) on live TV.
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Just like on the Disney+ series, it eventually becomes clear that Fallon is beaming himself through classic television as a way to escape his grief about what’s happening in real life in 2021. There’s also a twist at the end that suggests another WandaVision character may be the one responsible for all this. [Wink.]

Director Chris Tartaro, who has filmed and edited many prerecorded sketches for Fallon during his tenures on both Late Night and The Tonight Show, jumped on the phone less than an hour after capturing the sketch’s last shot to explain how it all came together. Watch the sketch first, because spoilers are below.

After the idea was conceived and fine-tuned by Fallon and his writers’ room, the first step was to confirm that Olsen, already booked as a Wednesday guest, was game to participate in the homage. She was, though she had to improvise a bit when wigs and other props couldn’t be shipped to her quickly enough. (Olsen is currently in London shooting Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.) “She took her Sunday to do this with her team, and they didn’t have costumes, and they just used what they had,” Tartaro says. (Feel free to closely examine every item Olsen wears in the sketch for possible clues about the Doctor Strange movie.)
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March 04 2021
Videos: “WandaVision” Ep 8 Promos

To me, these have a big spoiler so watch at your own risk!


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February 26 2021
Videos: “WandaVision” 1×07 Promos and Clip

This is the first hour-long episode! Finally. Over the series, there will be 6 total hours which is more of Elizabeth/Wanda than we’ve seen in all three Avengers and Captain America: Civil War movies.

February 19 2021
Videos: “WandaVision” 1.06 Promo and a Featurette

Tomorrow’s episode! (3am EST lol) I’m so excited but the season is halfway over, which makes me sad!


February 12 2021