Sunday, January 31, 2021

Where's Wanda? Elizabeth Olsen on Guiding Marvel's New Era

 
 
An ambitious new Disney+ series might just give the strongest Avenger the happy ending she deserves.
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Elizabeth Olsen Is Ready to Lead the MCU
 
We can't keep meeting Elizabeth Olsen like this. By "this," I mean in the throes of catastrophe or bereavement, or, to put it plainly, when she's an emotional wreck. In the 2018 Facebook Watch drama Sorry For Your Loss, Olsen assumes the role of Leigh Shaw, a young widow grappling with the unexpected loss of her husband and all the painful nuisances that come with death: the unbearable waves of sadness, the clichéd condolences, a grief support group that runs out of donuts. At one point, Leigh says through a cracked voice, "I'm just mad all the time." It's hard not to draw parallels to Olsen's other angry character. After all, "mad" is exactly how 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron introduced us to Wanda Maximoff.

Defined by tragedy since her Marvel debut, Wanda (aka the Scarlet Witch) is an orphan with telekinetic powers. When not saving the world, she spends most of her time onscreen grieving the deaths of her parents, twin brother, or lover. Wanda's never been allowed to fully exist outside the confines of her grief and anger, but with the launch of WandaVision—Marvel's foray into serialized content for streaming—she may just be getting the happy ending she deserves.

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