Disney+ launched in 2021, ushering in a new era for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The first television series from the studio, Wandavision, landed on the platform to rave reviews, with Elisabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany reprising their roles as the titular leads Wanda Maximoff and Vision. Wind the clock forward three years later, and Olsen has looked back on her time with the series, describing it as Marvel’s “weird cousin” and a “career curveball.”
In conversation with Harper’s Bazaar UK, Olsen discussed the series: “No one forced me to do that! I have made a choice to continue on with Marvel and they’ve made a choice to continue on with me.”
“I was really scared about doing a Marvel project for TV because there are otherworldly, larger than life characters that are seen in films, and I didn’t know if it would still work on the television at home. But I had confidence in the format because the storytelling really honored the TV medium.”
“We really felt we were Marvel’s weird cousin. We didn’t know it was going to have such a response,” Olsen adds. “It came out during the pandemic and it almost had way more relevance to everyone’s lives; [we were all ] Trying to function in these bubbles that we were put in, and then there was this world outside of a bubble. No-one even knew what reality was that point.”
Olsen is lined up to appear in His Three Daughters, a film from Azalea Jacobs, working alongside Carrie Coon and Natasha Lyonne. The film is expected to arrive in cinemas on September 6, before joining Netflix on September 20.
Next up from the MCU is Agatha All Along, an extension to the Wandavision story, featuring the return of Kathryn Hahn as the titular witch. The series stars Joe Locke, Sasheer Zamata, Ali Ahn, Maria Dizzia, Paul Adelstein, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Okwui Okpokwasili, Debra Jo Rupp, Patti LuPone, and Aubrey Plaza.
Agatha All Along debuts on Disney+ on September 18.
