Elizabeth Olsen offers tips to aspiring Marvel actors: "Just give them one"

Elizabeth Olsen has warned actors to only sign up for one Marvel movie at a time.

Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast with Josh Horowitz, Olsen, 34, said: "Just give them one" 

"That way you have more control," she explained" Let’s say you’re like, ‘Oh my God, this was the most fun I’ve ever had and I love this character so much. I want to do it again.’ You now have more creative controls for the next one.”

She added, “Don’t tell [David] Galluzzi that. [He’s] business affairs at Marvel.”

Olsen made her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as Wana Maximoff/Scarlet Witch in Avengers: The Age of Ultron (actually, in the post-end-credits stinger Captain America: Winter Soldier), and subsequently appeared in Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

She also starred alongside Paul Bettany in the Disney+ spin-off, WandaVision.  

After her long association with Marvel, Oslen said she won't be signing up for any more long-running franchises.

She said: "It’s almost like I see my past and I see a road over here and a road over here, and I’ve been travelling down this road, and now I’m trying to like, make a left-hand turn a bit … steer back a little bit.

“I do think that when I started having job opportunities where it wasn’t me just like auditioning for literally everything and anything — I also kind of enjoy doing that — I didn’t really understand how to say no to projects or how to decipher whether or not I should do something or not.

“I didn’t really have a philosophy or a plan, and I still don’t really have a plan, but more of a philosophy I guess. And that’s nice to know and that’s nice to have and that’s good information when looking through projects with that kind of lens and knowledge now.”

Olsen is currently starring in HBO's Love & Death. Listen to Olsen's interview on Happy Sad Confused here:

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