Elizabeth Olsen Says Doing Her Own Marvel Stunts Is ‘A Waste of Everyone’s Time’
Elizabeth Olsen says doing her own Marvel stunts as Scarlet Witch is "a waste of everyone’s time" because the stunt crew is better: "Just use the double. This is so ridiculous - there is a double for a reason. Like, face replace…" https://t.co/MJ9ghDjtmw
- Variety (@Variety) April 20, 2023
Olsen said it’s “ridiculous” that she’s done a majority of her own Marvel stunts as Scarlet Witch.
“Your stomach leaves you. It’s like, I guess, the joy people get on roller coasters, which I don’t get, but people love that feeling. I’ve definitely recovered from my giddiness. Sometimes I’m just like, ‘Okay, how many more of these do you want? I can do this all day’ kind of thing. But sometimes I get a little freaked out.”
“There is one in ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ where I had to be dropped from 30 feet up and land. They wanted to drop me pretty quickly so that it looked like it had an impact, but I kept landing like Peter Pan, kind of like fencing? I was like, ‘Just use the double. This is so ridiculous - there is a double for a reason. Like, face replace…’ They do it all the time. And they used it.”
Olsen did not perform all of her own stunts in Multiverse of Madness, she did perform “most of them.”
“It’s a waste of everyone’s time because a stunt double does it so much better.”
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