Elizabeth Olsen talks Doctor Strange team-up and Scarlet Witch's post-WandaVision "confidence"
Please standby. Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch had us glued to our screens in Marvel’s first Disney Plus show, WandaVision, and now she’s returning to the big screen in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. But a lot has changed since Westview. For one thing, the multiverse has cracked open thanks to Spider-Man: No Way Home – an event that leads Doctor Strange to seek Wanda’s help.
"We find her in a place of confidence that we haven’t seen, and a place of clarity," Olsen tells Total Film and GamesRadar+ over Zoom while discussing her character. "There’s a lot to have learned at the end of [WandaVision]. Although she is accountable for Westview and needs to flee, I do think there is part of her that feels some sort of resolve in allowing her destiny to be this mythic woman of the Scarlet Witch."
That clarity extended to Olsen’s own treatment of the character. After wrapping on WandaVision, she headed almost immediately to London to film Multiverse of Madness – yet she was one of the only people on set familiar with how Wanda’s journey would lead her into the Doctor Strange sequel.
"We literally finished WandaVision on a Wednesday and I flew to England on the Friday to make this film," Olsen says. "I had just experienced a lot of WandaVision, but no one else on Doctor Strange had. It was trying to continue what we had done and what we had learned into this film as much as possible."
To keep things consistent, Olsen says there were constant conversations between Doctor Strange writer Michael Waldron and Jac Shaeffer, writer and creator of WandaVision, "so that there was an understanding and overlap."
"We didn’t have edits to share with anyone because we had just finished filming days before," she continues. "So
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