‘WandaVision’s Elizabeth Olsen Says She’s “Happy To Come Back” To Marvel Universe & Reprise Scarlet Witch Role “If There’s A Good Way To Use Her”

Elizabeth Olsen played Wanda Maximoff, also known as the Scarlet Witch, across the Marvel Universe and is seemingly down to continue reprising the role.

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In a recent interview, the WandaVision star opened up about playing the Marvel character and what it would take for her to portray her again.

“It’s a character that I love going back to when there’s a way to use her well, and I think I have been lucky that when I started I was used well,” Olsen said in an interview with FM104 . “I think people didn’t know what to do with me for a second there… if there’s a good way to use her I’m always happy to come back.”

Olsen first appeared as Wanda Maximoff in 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier . She would follow up by playing Wanda again in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron as one of the secondary characters.

The character continued evolving, and Olsen reprised the role in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War , 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, and 2019’s Avengers: Endgame .

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Following the films, Wanda got a Disney+ spinoff in 2021 with WandaVision , following the events of Endgame . The series explored Wanda’s grief, creating a perfect world inspired by TV sitcoms.

Wanda’s character arc concluded with Olsen reprising her role in 2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness . In the film, the Scarlet Witch becomes the main villain.

Following her ride as Wanda, Olsen said she was ready to explore other characters as she had played the Marvel character for almost a decade.

“I’m trying to figure out… Because, specifically in the last four years, my output has been Marvel,” Olsen told the Times of London in 2023. “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. 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. But yeah, that’s something that I need. I just need other characters in my life. There’s no longevity in one character.”

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