'It's Good to Put Her Down and Then I Miss Her and I Want Her Back' — MCU Star Elizabeth Olsen Says She'd Jump at the Chance to Play Scarlet Witch Again, but Is the Character Still Alive?

Marvel prima Elizabeth Olsen has said she’d “jump at” the accidental to play Scarlet Witch again.

Olsen past played Scarlet Witch successful live-action signifier successful 2022’s Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness. She subsequently reprised the relation for this year’s animated bid Marvel Zombies, but that was dependable enactment only, and she recorded her lines immoderate years ago.

Ever since Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness’ release, fans person speculated astir Scarlet Witch’s imaginable return, peculiarly with Avengers: Doomsday acceptable to travel retired adjacent year, and its sequel, Avengers: Secret Wars, acceptable to travel successful 2027.

Elizabeth Olsen astatine the premiere of Avengers: Infinity War connected April 23, 2018 successful Los Angeles, California. Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic.

While her instrumentality to the MCU has yet to beryllium confirmed, successful a caller interrogation with InStyle, Olsen suggested she was present acceptable to play Scarlet Witch erstwhile again.

“It’s ridiculous,” she said of making MCU movies. “We're grown radical behaving similar children connected a playground. We're flying. We're shooting things retired of our hands. And it’s a quality that I've gotten to instrumentality to truthful galore times implicit 10 years. It’s bully to enactment her down and past I miss her and I privation her back. I'd leap astatine the accidental to beryllium successful her shoes again.”

Olsen pointed to “the consistency of a assemblage and a job, which is hard to find,” arsenic 1 of the reasons she loves the Marvel universe.

Warning! Spoilers for Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness and Agatha All Along Season 1 follow.

Scarlet Witch seemingly died astatine the extremity of Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness and failed to marque a melodramatic instrumentality successful Disney+ amusement Agatha All Along, overmuch to the disappointment of fans. MCU brag Kevin Feige has issued a tease that got Scarlet Witch fans excited, however. “We had Agatha Forever connected Disney+ conscionable now, and that bid was large for us,” helium said. “Since then, determination person been a batch of questions astir Wanda connected fans' minds... So each I tin accidental is that we're excited to find retired erstwhile and however the Scarlet Witch mightiness return.”

But if that instrumentality to the MCU does happen, it seemingly won’t beryllium successful Avengers. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Olsen insisted she wouldn't beryllium successful London for the filming of either Doomsday oregon Secret Wars. Was that yet different illustration of a superhero histrion misdirect?

The large question, of course, is whether oregon not Scarlet Witch is inactive live pursuing the events of Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness. She was asked, level out, successful the interrogation with InStyle. Her response: “No idea.”

Olsen’s sanction was not a portion of Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday reveal, but further actors acceptable to prima successful the movie volition beryllium announced, Marvel has said. Iron Man histrion Robert Downey Jr. volition instrumentality arsenic Doctor Doom, and Benedict Cumberbatch volition seemingly instrumentality arsenic Doctor Strange successful Secret Wars. The Russo brothers person said they spot Avengers 5 and 6 arsenic a “new beginning” that volition laic the instauration for immoderate comes adjacent successful Phase 7 of the MCU.

“The lone happening I’ll accidental astir the movie is this: we emotion villains who deliberation they’re the heroes of their ain stories,” Joe Russo said. “That’s erstwhile they go three-dimensional and they go much interesting. When you person an histrion similar Robert Downey, you person to make a three-dimensional, good shaped quality for the audience. That’s wherever a batch of our absorption is going.”

Avengers: Doomsday is presently acceptable to get successful theaters May 1, 2026 and Secret Wars arrives astir a twelvemonth aboriginal successful May 2027.

Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic.

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