#wanda has beef with elizabeth olsen

[delulu-with-wandanat]

(LORD HELP AS THEY’RE STILL) Stuck in Our Universe

Elizabeth: So what’s your character like in real life?

Scarlett: Natasha? She is delightful! She’s such a strong and caring woman, I admire her a lot. What about yours?

Elizabeth: Oh Wanda? She's uh... *looks back*

Wanda:

Elizabeth: Yea, I don't think she likes me very much-

Scarlett: Really? She's seems so sweet to me though.

-Wanda to Scarlett-

Scarlett: *Trying to reach something from a high cabinet.*

Wanda: Oh let me get that for you, Scarlett! *uses her powers*

Scarlett: Why thank you dear! You're so sweet.

Wanda: You’re welcome IHIHIHI- *blushing, giggling, bouncing on her feet.*

-Wanda to Elizabeth-

Elizabeth: *Struggles to reach a food from an even higher cabinet*

Wanda:

Elizabeth: Could really put that power to a good use-

Wanda: Starve. *leaves*

Elizabeth af:

-Back to present-

Elizabeth: Yea, that's probably cause you have her gf's face.

Scarlett: Well-

Elizabeth: I feel like she got some self-deprecating issues, but instead of letting it out in the mirror she lets it out to me.

Scarlett: That's a bold assumption-

[nerdasaurus1200]

I just finished the latest WandaVison episode and hooo boy, do I have thoughts

FIRST OF ALL, why the hell did Agatha betray her coven? Gimme the deets on that

I assume that brooch Agatha’s mom was wearing gives the wearer ultimate power of the magic in the coven as well as immortality

I frigging love how Agatha actually takes a shot at Wanda switching back and forth between different accents. If that’s not a fourth wall break I dunno what is

Okay...necromancy spell....so does that mean X Men Quicksilver was already dead?

AGATHA YOU STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM BILLY AND TOMMY

Wanda and Pietro’s parents look so much like them; and lil Wanda and Pietro look so adorable

HOLY FRICK, WANDA USED TO WATCH SITCOMS AS A KID AND THAT’S HOW SHE AND HER FAMILY LEARNED ENGLISH THAT EXPLAINS SO MUCH

THE! FRIGGING! BOMB! I KNEW IT! I KNEW THEY WERE GONNA SHOW THE BOMB “At the end of the episode, it turns out to all be a bad dream” rip my damn heart out, why don’t you?

So the bomb didn’t go off...because of Wanda?

IT’S HER IT’S HER IT’S HER SHE SAW THE OG SCARLET WITCH WHEN SHE TOUCHED THE MIND STONE!!! DID THANOS KNOW ABOUT THIS? DID LOKI KNOW? HAS A PREVIOUS SCARLET WITCH USED THE MIND STONE BEFORE AND THAT’S WHY WANDA’S CONNECTED TO IT?

How did the mind stone cut out the cameras?

How does Agatha know what an infinity stone is??? Did she research this?

I’m sorry, the Mind Stone amplified what was already there???

Awww, awkward Vision being awkward and adorable and crushing on Wanda

"What is grief, if not love persevering?" again, who said you could rip my heart out?

Serious props to the script writers of this show, the dialogue is so well written, it shines so well in this episode. And props to Elizabeth Olsen’s acting, she’s able to convey so much just from her expressions alone and it makes Wanda feel so much more real.

I wonder if for a split second Wanda thought about using her powers to threaten the guy and that’s why she looked at her hands and smirked

Holy smokes, the look Wanda gives the security camera when she’s at the front desk

Wanda you poor baby you didn’t even get to bury him

“I’m his next of kin” Oh frick she’s right that didn’t even occur to me

Okay, I know Vision is a robot and not actually human but that scene where they’re working on him is still VERY disturbing and creepy. I really felt Wanda’s pain

Also the fact that she didn’t even recognize his body at first

“He’s not yours” FUCK YOU HAYWARD YES HE IS

“I can’t feel you”.......remembers “I just feel you” in Infinity War, the second to last thing he ever said to her

Oh my god....I....they were gonna settle down and move to Westview....

SHE DID THE GODDAMN DROP TO HER KNEES THING LIKE SHE DID WHEN SHE REALIZED PIETRO WAS DEAD

So her grief over losing the life she never got to have with Vision and desire to live that out literally created the whole show....my God, how powerful IS she?

Wait wait wait wait wait hold the fothermucking phone....did she make an illusion of Vision? Did she manage to ressurect him? Whatever she did, she clearly sure as hell didn’t steal his body which either means someone else did and Wanda’s the suspect or (more likely) Hayward’s got beef with Wanda and is lying to take her out...

AGATHA I TOLD YOU TO STAY AWAY FROM THE KIDS

The way Wanda tries to reassure her sons it’s gonna be okay...she’s such a good mom

“You have no idea how dangerous you are.” Huh? “You’re supposed to be a myth, a being capable of spontaneous creation” Say what now?

“This is Chaos Magic, Wanda. And that makes you...the Scarlet Witch” HOOOOOOOOLLLLYYYYYYY SHIIIIIIIIIT

[delusionland]

the iron man vs wanda maximoff beef is the center imo of the marvel cinematic verse politics and it drives me crazy bc u CANNOT make two people the center of two ideological movements and still be full fledged characters that appear in 17 movies each. but they try anyway and u can see half the flaws in disney political bent thru them tbh. ( meta )

(mcu criticism and talks about hydra / nazism under the cut but this is NOT vagueposting i love the portrayals i see of wanda exactly for what they, and i LOVE wandavision and i JUST LOVE WANDA IN GENRAL but i would feel terrible if i never stated this somewhere on a blog that analyzed disney / mcu)

we’re meant to find endearing two powerful & sympathetic but flawed characters. they both fuck up a LOT and are kind of meant to be looked at as fucked up but at the end of the day they are both placed on a pedestal of power & sympathy and more importantly---’audience perspective.’ 

bc wanda specifically blames Tony Stark for all her problems and not america itself and that that is the catalyst---the audience is expected ignore the problems with america OUTSIDE of tony stark. the real problem is not with the foundation of america (&its ties to nazism bc SHIELD ISNT EVEN A THING ANYMOREEE DONT WORRY AOUT ITTTT), and it’s certainly not with wanda’s fantasies of america and american culture as an eastern european in a country destabilized by america & hydra (nazis), a country where we see NOTHING about their actual culture besides the mcu’s maximoffs terrible on-and-off accents.

it is scary to me that somehow in wanda’s eyes, the problem&source of her trauma is One Man, One Manufacturer of Weapons. to the point where she can join the nazis, STILL seem to believe the nazis are freedom fighters, and still cope with the death of her lover and her stability by saying ‘i will literally live in the american sitcom dream & force reality to mold around me and that wish’ which tbh implies the american dream of the 50s+ is Not Incompatible with the ideals she fought for WITH THE NAZIS.

which could be an interesting character point that honestly makes sense with the themes in catws & what i’ve seen of agents of shield (nazis are everywhere) and make her a really fucking scary villain if she was NOT A ROMANI/JEWISH WOMAN IN THE COMICS which makes this A COMPLETE SLAP IN THE FACE TO ROMANI/JEWISH PEOPLE?

it’s also interesting bc wanda represents??? such a strange compulsory heterosexuality???? do we EVER see her without a man except in wandavision where she has literally formed reality into her sitcom nuclear lifestyle and then traps the ACTUALLY queercoded witch into a heterosexual fifties marriage because she threatened that lifestyle---even tho she did hardly anything wrong compared to wanda who imprisoned and mind controlled a town of 4k+ people? wanda isn’t queercoded, she’s explicitly a vessel for male sexuality to the point that elizabeth olsen said she had to control her facial muscles while using wanda’s powers on screen bc ‘nobody wants to see that’ regarding GENUINE HUMAN EMOTION.

tony on the other hand flirts with rhodey in iron man as easily as he breathes. if he’s not queercoded---he’s metrosexual coded. he’s the kind of character lgbt kids look at in 2012 and go ‘oh wow he would paint his nails and fall in love with captain america and be like me.’ tony stark is extremely objectivist One Great Man themed. but he’s also in his story very much the ‘my daddy never loved me enough so now i project a needy self-absorption that gay kids can relate to.’

i’m not saying wanda is oppressing tony for being gay bc thats stupid. but i AM saying wanda vs tony feels very much like a ‘fragile cishet white woman who is also extremely powerful iSnT sHE fLAWEd and iNTEResting’ vs ‘purposefully annoying New Generation of money meterosexual who never did anything wrong but also was an IMPERIALIST WARMONGER but stopped but didnt isnt that a fun quirk’ and it’s like. driving me crazy bc the problems of racism and imperialism go far deeper than just two people ever could and the mcu slaps a face on every institutional problem and CALLS IT A DAY

[fromdirectorlanawachowski]

honest and unmerciful endgame thoughts

a sequel to this post

this is deadass one of the worst movies i’ve ever seen.

a few brief thoughts before i get into the more or less play by play.

- making jokes about how time travel in movies isn’t really how time travel works doesn’t work if you’re a fucking movie dude

- fat thor was a fucking disgrace

- professor hulk has to have been 80% ad-libbed because there’s no way someone actually wrote that garbage dialogue

- using a past thanos was a mistake because we don’t actually give a shit about him

OKAY LETS GO

actually fuck it i was gonna do plot point by plot point but i’m just so exhausted i don’t have the strength to do it. i’m gonna go in broad strokes and if you want me to elaborate on WHY something was bad feel free to yell at me in the DMs

okay lets go

right away the whole thing with clint fucking turning on the spot as his family disappears was goofy as all hell. i know exactly what they were going for but having him literally turn on the spot instead of go into the house or go into the shed just draws attention to the absolute hilarity of how fast they vanished compared to others.

why the fuck was tony skin and bones when he got back to earth. i know he was in space for three weeks but they clearly show him eating during the montage of him and nebula doing.... things?

also everyone just kind of trusts nebula? okay? i’d be wary of purple aliens in light of what just happens but inclusivity i guess

also you mean to tell me that in three weeks they scanned the entire universe for gamma radiation? also enough gamma radiation that would show up on a scan from light years away but not fry everyone nearby when thanos snapped?

as soon as they killed thanos i knew the climax of this movie was gonna suck ass.

the writers have no idea how fast human hair grows if five years later natasha still has that godawful blonde dye on her tips

a fucking rat got scott lang out of the quantum realm. i don’t have any commentary for this because this scene speaks for itself. a rat.

moreover how did they even get the van down from the rooftop it was on at the end of ant man 2

fat thor. i don’t have any commentary about this either. the whole thing reeks of the russos looking at taika and going “you wanna be a funny man? you want thor to be fucking funny? you think he’s hilarious? fuck you”

oh i guess i did have commentary on that after all

i’m glossing right over the gay scene because again, taika fought tooth and nail to get bisexual valkyrie and now the russo shitters get to say they had the first canon lgbt character and it’s a couple of throwaway lines that can be redubbed for china. seriously. i don’t think there’s ever a scene where he says “he” or “him” while his lips are on screen.

apparently i am doing this relatively plot point by plot point but i digress

if i was keeping points like cinemasins (ew) i’d take a few off for morgan stark. i’m an bitch but not that much of one.

oh yeah pepper potts’ first of, i believe, four lines in this movie is “yeah i’m reading about compost”. i have no commentary for this either. it speaks for itself.

tony hits upon time travel in a day

i’m so glad we couldn’t get any real character development for anyone but we had time for the four minute “ant man becomes various aged forms of himself and then makes a peeing your pants joke in 2019″ scene.

“that’s how time travel works in movies this is real life” that’s great except that joke falls flat cause you’re a fuckin movie bro

i’m skipping over the entirety of the battle of new york thing because that was just fucking.... *benny hill music*

oh no i’m addressing the ancient one thing. love to have characters retconned into previous movies so they can try and explain the time travel in a way that actually makes it more confusing and also isn’t the way the movie follows

steve leering at peggy through the blinds was creepy, i’m sorry. actually the way he was suddenly obsessed with her this whole movie was really creepy.

howard potts

tony meeting his dad was so awkward and uncomfortable and they really meant for it to be heartwarming but i’m sorry it was fucking hilarious and i was howling with laughter in the theater

likewise thor with frigga. a really nice, emotional moment where thor gets closure with his mom and she overtly says she knows she’s going to die soon but she loves him and she’s so proud of him....

..... and then tops it off with a fat joke. the russos can’t let any kind of emotion hang without making a joke.

when they killed natasha a guy three rows down said “if they were killing her here why the fuck did they greenlight her movie then”

why did thanos get a scene confronting the cost of the stone but clint just wakes up in a puddle? are you gonna tell me thanos cared more about gamora than clint did about natasha? ok.

okay i’ll admit seeing quill dancing on morag without the background music was funny as fuck. rhodey explaining the punchline was not funny as fuck though

three cheers for nebula inexplicably having new abilities

as soon as they brought in past thanos i knew the climax of this movie was gonna suck a big ass

hulk snaps the iron infinity gauntlet because he’s the only one that can withstand the gamma radiation that it allegedly emits and has been mentioned only once before in this movie

the fact that it works is demonstrated by not anyone coming back, but ant man looking out the window at some birds. yeah. gee.

okay i have a question here that may take a little bit to explain.

earlier in the movie it’s explicitly stated they only have enough pym particles for one round trip each. that’s why steve and tony had to go back to 197X to get the tesseract and more particles. 

so.

past-nebula takes current-nebula’s place and uses her particles to travel back to the present, leaving current-nebula with no particles

so how did past-thanos bring his ship to the present with no pym particles

anyway past-gamora and current-nebula kill past-nebula to get the iron infinity gauntlet back

the final battle was whatever. i couldn’t for the life of me tell you what happened or where anyone was in relation to anyone else because it was cut so poorly

everyone comes back. remember at the end of my infinity war thoughts when i said the end had no stakes because obviously everyone snapped came back and you all got mad at me? everyone comes back.

the ladies all running the gauntlet would be cool if it wasn’t encompassed by shots of all the men running the gauntlet, drawing attention to the fact there’s literally only like seven ladies and one of them isn’t even a hero

joss whedon was the cinematographer the day they shot wanda fighting thanos, judging from all the gratuitous shots down her shirt. i know elizabeth olsen has nice boobs. believe me, i do. i’m envious. but for the love of christ stop being creepy voyeurs about it

also “you took everything from me” “i don’t even know who you are???” that was a great setup for her to use her mind powers and make thanos experience some suffering but they just didn’t do that so those lines are hilarious

tony gets the stones and snaps, killing thanos and all his army. thanos fades away into dust while a woman vocalizes in the background in a manner that’s less satisfying than when voldemort did the exact same thing in deathly hallows part 2

tony dies because i guess?

at the funeral everyone is there and there’s shots lingering on everyone including this weird kid who looks like he’d microwave a gerbil? i had to google him and it’s supposed to be the kid from iron man 3. i feel like seven years later you should probably put in a line like “thanks for coming <whatever that kid’s name was>

okay we’ve reached the part i have the absolute most beef with.

steve’s ending

from the start of this movie he’s been inexplicably obsessed with peggy. the ending is telegraphed from a mile away and i was still shocked and stunned that they actually did this.

so steve just gives up everything, all his friends and family, to go back in time to be with a woman he knew for max a year, in the heat of war, where emotions run high and they may very well have latched onto each other in case they died.

steve rogers, the man who wielded mjolnir, the man who broke his friend’s mental conditioning just be refusing to fight him, just sits back through the 50s and 60s and 70s and 80s and 90s. the cuban missile crisis, the LA riots, the assassination of JFK, the death of howard and maria stark, the infiltration of shield, the berlin wall, 9/11, the war on terror, and he just.... did nothing?

what the fuck was that

sam is captain america now though so i’m down with that

but i’m still so angry

this is beyond character assassination for steve. it’s... outright brutal murder and mutilation. anywhere i can, i give endgame a half star review FOR THIS ALONE. setting aside fat thor and how they treat Ragnarok, the fact they think steve rogers would, after everything he’s done and learned, go back into the past where there was still a chance he could help his friends in his own way, and do NOTHING, is the most infuriating thing about this barely-polished turd of a movie.

IN CONCLUSION i said infinity war was the worst movie marvel had ever put out and marvel went “haha we can do you one better”

endgame is just three hours of setpiece, gag, setpiece, gag, setpiece, gag, occasionally punctuated with emotional moments that aren’t allowed to hang long enough for the emotion to sink in before a joke is made, usually at thor’s expense.

[bewitching-elizabeth-olsen]

Press: Avengers: Infinity War Set Visit – Elizabeth Olsen & Paul Bettany Interview

  SCREEN RANT – Avengers: Infinity War picks up its character story arcs and team dynamics from where Captain America: Civil War left most of its Avengers, disassembled, but not everyone had a break up, so to speak. Vision and Wanda Maximoff a.k.a. Scarlet Witch have since become romantically involved, as the odd pair were in Marvel Comics, and that poses some interesting challenges for the two heroes given that one of them was brought to life with an Infinity Stone that the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s greatest villain is after.

  What happens when Thanos and his army seeks out the Mind Gem that’s keeping Vision alive? Does Vision even need it anymore? Can Wanda’s powers (which also derive from that Infinity Stone) be used to keep Vision alive instead?

  We traveled to Pinewood Atlanta Studios in June 2017 to visit the set of Avengers: Infinity War and spent a day chatting with cast and crew, including Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen. At the time, secrecy was at a maximum but unofficial set photos from earlier during principal photography revealed the pair together, romantically, and Vision embracing more of a human look. We began by asking about the sequence we saw being shot that day, where Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) and his team land in Wakanda, seeking assistance and bringing them a warning of what’s coming.

  In this scene, you guys get off the quinjet, Vision seems a bit hurt. What happened to Vision?

Paul Bettany: Oh, I just had some really bad brain freeze. … I had a really bad, I got a curry on the plane. … I got skewered.

Elizabeth Olsen: In front of a kabob shop.

Paul Bettany: In front of a kabob shop, which is ironic. … And these bad guys are trying to get the stone out of my head and so Wanda and I fought them off and then we’ve ended up here for surgery.

Elizabeth Olsen: Yes, we’re trying to. … I always get confused on how much we can talk about. … Like are we allowed to explain what we try and do in Shuri’s lab? [Publicist: “No”] No, okay. So forget that bit.

Paul Bettany: I gotta get fixed up.

  You’re like the scarecrow in Wizard of Oz when they’re putting him back together?

Paul Bettany: Just a little bit like that.

Elizabeth Olsen: [After a beat] Any other questions about today? [Laughs]

  What can you say about both of your characters and what they’ve been doing between the events of Civil War and now?

Elizabeth Olsen: We have stayed separate teams and the people on Cap’s side have been fighting more rogue missions. Hence, we all look a bit different to suggest being in hiding and we’ve been trying to within that time find points of meeting in different places in order to try and forward our relationship.

  For better or worse, we have seem some of the paparazzi photos.

Elizabeth Olsen: It’s really sad.

  Is there anything else you can say about your characters’ relationship?

Paul Bettany: I think that Vision’s been on this quest to understand what being human is and I think Scarlet Witch, in a large degree, has helped him figure that out and what love is. [Sings] “I wanna know what love is?” It’s in the movie, that’s the scene the paparazzi [shot]. “I wanna know what love is?” Yeah, so they’re trying to figure that out.

Elizabeth Olsen [Continues singing] “I want you to show me…”

Paul Bettany: [To Olsen] I think we should stop now.

Elizabeth Olsen: Okay.

Paul Bettany: [To Olsen] Don’t give too much away, don’t give too much away. [Back to press] Yeah, so that’s what’s been going on and they’re very much in love at this point.

Elizabeth Olsen: Soulmates.

  [To Bettany] I imagine since you carry one of the stones that you’re going to have a significant arc in this story. Obviously without giving too much away, can you give us what we can expect from Vision’s story?

Paul Bettany: It’s gonna be kinda of a significant arc ‘cause I got one of the stones in my head. That’s about all I’m allowed to say. No, there’s some really bad dudes who want the stone from my head and that’s a problem for Vision.

  What would happen if they got it, hypothetically?

Paul Bettany: Well, that’s a very big question and one that troubles…

Elizabeth Olsen: That we explore in the movie.

Paul Bettany: Yeah. One that troubles Vision and Wanda a lot. I don’t know what to do about that. It’s really having these conversations because you don’t wanna sound slightly obtuse and being a difficult interview, but you’ve got…

  Being undercover, how does Vision go undercover?

Paul Bettany: Well, you either travel to different Mardi Gras around the world. On Halloween, you’re golden — Halloween, it’s his night out — or you discover the ability to change your appearance. With nano-technology. Totally making that up…

  Do you get to play different incarnations of Vision or are other actors going to be brought in so he can shapeshift into different looks to be undercover?

Paul Bettany: I wouldn’t want to lead you down the garden path, no. I don’t look like this in real life. [Laughs]

  I have seen you outside with no makeup on.

Paul Bettany: Oh, there’s a guy who didn’t look like Vision playing Vision. [Says to himself] “You look a lot like Paul Bettany.”

  How much would you both say that characters are dealing with the fallout of what happened in the last movie [Civil War]?

Elizabeth Olsen: I think in a different way not so much about the last movie and their own sagas, but this is definitely the most emotional arc I’ve done in an Avenger film, that’s for sure.

Paul Bettany: Yeah.

Elizabeth Olsen: ’Cause when we’re talking about Vision becoming human, we’re talking about their relationship and it’s a pretty grounded arc.

Paul Bettany: And significant. [Laughs] Yeah, I think it is the most emotional. Also, the cost and the danger that we’re all facing becomes more important than certain beef that people had in the past because it’s so desperate. The point of the Avengers, and by extension mankind, it’s fraught with danger. So I think old grudges are buried and put off until next time.

  How would your characters describe Thanos? What do you guys think of him?

Paul Bettany: He’s such a dick.

Elizabeth Olsen: I don’t really know yet. We haven’t really figured that out ourselves yet. Right?

Paul Bettany: Yeah.

Elizabeth Olsen: We haven’t really gotten to that bit in the exploration, but he’s not a good guy. We don’t necessarily want to be his friend. You don’t want to be his friend.

Paul Bettany: You don’t want to be his friend, no, but you can admire… He has an ambitious goal.

Elizabeth Olsen: Yes, he sets his goals very high.

Paul Bettany: He sets his goals very high.

Elizabeth Olsen: I think [Josh] Brolin is doing a really cool job creating an interesting villain ‘cause he doesn’t really come across… he seems he’s defending it quite well.

  We’ve asked the rest of the cast how they relate to Thanos and how they feel about him, and they were talking about it in very abstract ways, but for your characters it’s actually very personal because if Thanos gets what he wants your romance would end. Who knows what would happen to Vision. So from that point of view, does Thanos perhaps frighten your characters more than the rest of the team?

Paul Bettany: He is, like I said, I think he’s a real dick. [Laughs] I just found out what it means to be human and now this Thanos guy. Yeah, I don’t know. I think for everybody the stakes are so high that I think that it’s…

Elizabeth Olsen: As bad as bad can be.

Paul Bettany: As bad as bad can be.

  So if Scarlet Witch happens to cross paths with Doctor Strange, is there like a weird who’s-on-first thing where he’s like, “I use real magic,” she’s like “They call me a witch”?

Elizabeth Olsen: “Ya ne znayu.” Sorry, that means “I don’t know.” [in Russian] I don’t know why I said the other, but I don’t know.

  Can you talk about your dynamics in the film as being a partnership within the team dynamic, right? Are there certain challenges or is it comforting for your characters to have each other within this team but on a more personal and special level?

Elizabeth Olsen: As actors or as our characters?

  As your characters or both?

Paul Bettany: It’s a pretty dynamic team.

Elizabeth Olsen: It’s a pretty fun group.

Paul Bettany: Pretty fun group. Friday nights are great. I mean, I don’t really understand the question.

  Is it comforting to have one person on the team you can rely on in a different way than maybe the rest of the team?

Elizabeth Olsen: Oh, with each other!

Paul Bettany: Yeah.

Elizabeth Olsen: Oh yeah! Yeah, that is fun. It just feels like you have something really specific to work with all the time. And that feels nice. There’s like an anchor point to everything, which is what you’re constantly looking for when you’re doing these movies. What anchors you to a grounded reality? And you have that throughout the whole film. You have your partner, your life partner with you by your side, and that creates a different kind of stakes, as well.

  The Guardians of the Galaxy come into this film and, obviously, cosmic villains. Do these cosmic characters and the otherworldly stuff, does that make Vision want to quest beyond understanding humanity, realizing, “Holy shit there’s so much more out there now”?

  Elizabeth Olsen: I feel like we should do this meeting before we do the movie so they can give us ideas. [Laughs]

  Paul Bettany: Yeah, I don’t know. I think he’s already thinking that way already. I mean, he’s a smart fellow, the Vision. So I think he’s already thinking that way. Frankly, being that you have to have a face for the quest to save humanity, well why? Well, because it’s the person that you love. Fighting for that I think is just a question because I don’t know quite how to answer my question. So, yes, which is I think about love and understanding what love is. [This part is clear] I think you can see by the end of the movie on a much grander scale a love of life.

  With Scarlet Witch, specifically, there was an alternate scene in Civil War and it was, at least in my recollection, the first time a Marvel character had actually acknowledged the fact that she can alter reality as opposed to moving things with her mind.

Elizabeth Olsen: An alternate scene in Civil War? That was deleted but I was in it?

  Yeah,

Elizabeth Olsen: [Laughter] I don’t remember it.

  Vision is explaining to General Ross at the very beginning that “Wanda can manipulate molecular polarity to alter reality.”

Elizabeth Olsen: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

  So are we going to start to see more tricks from her now beyond the telekinetics and the force fields?

Elizabeth Olsen: Um…

Paul Bettany: You’ll have to wait and see.

Elizabeth Olsen: ‘kay.

  How does this movie differ from a Joss Whedon Avengers movie? As an actor, does it feel different in this one as opposed to Ultron?

Paul Bettany: Yeah, they’re really different. … It’s not that one is better than the other.

Elizabeth Olsen: The biggest difference is that Joss wrote everything. When he writes them, he plays every single character in, like, a cabin and he does the fighting sequences as much as he can and then he writes it. I think the main difference is that the Russos delegate and they trust everything that they’ve delegated things to. Not saying Joss didn’t, but that’s a lot of pressure to be a director and then go home to also do rewrites for the next week. So I think it’s just as it gets bigger, things become more specific to different departments and I think it allows maybe even a freedom within the dialogue sometimes…

Paul Bettany: Yeah absolutely.

Elizabeth Olsen: … because there’s a space some of us have the ability to step out and not be on the page. Not saying that one’s better than the other because Joss knows these characters better than maybe each one of the individuals do because he lives it and breathes it, and the Russos at the beginning of filming are like, “You’re in control of your character. If there are things you think we missed, please participate, please say.”

Paul Bettany: They really want you to be a collaborator and it’s great. There’s a huge upside for that. For them [the Russos], when you’re dealing with so many characters and actors to have two of them, and it’s brilliant because you can play one off against the other.

Elizabeth Olsen: “Anthony told me this.”

Paul Bettany: “He did?” “Yeah, he really did.” “Okay.” So that’s useful. Or like, “Your brother’s a bit of a dick isn’t he?”

  Have you guys made suggestions about your characters?

Paul Bettany: Oh yeah, I think everybody does all the time and Marvel has really been open to that, surprisingly.

Elizabeth Olsen: I think it would be shocking to anyone else who talks, writes, or talks about… People say it’s not a creative environment, you just are a pawn, and they make it the most creative environment it can be within its parameters.

Paul Bettany: Also there are people with very clear vision. So they’re able to hear you and yet maintain the course of the ship. I found it really open and creative and genuinely interested in what you would like to happen and have happened with your character.

  Any specifics?

Elizabeth Olsen: Well, like a general specific, we have already shot part of the end, but we haven’t shot some things that happen before and there are just things that happen where you’re like, “You know what? Let’s create a string and when we go to the scenes we haven’t shot yet, let’s create something that will reflect that later.” … And people notice it or they don’t. It’s just good to have.

Paul Bettany: I think the success of the Marvel films comes from the fact that they’re made by fans. They really love those characters. When I first came out dressed as Vision, Kevin Feige nearly cried. I didn’t grow up reading comics but they make you fall in love with your character. They really do. Their love for these stories is really infectious and you become really invested, and there’s a lot of invested people beyond the financials of it all. They really want to do a good job, and I think fans really trust that if they bend things that they’re in safe hands — that the story is in safe hands because I guarantee you it’s made by geeks. This movie is made by geeks. They love them, they feel it when they’re talking about it.

  There are a lot of characters in this movie that you guys haven’t worked with. It’s very new. Of all those characters, who have you already shot with that you really enjoyed or you’re just looking forward to have that opportunity?

Elizabeth Olsen: I don’t know. I feel like if I say who I want to work with, you’ll know too much. Is that weird?

  We know Captain Marvel is in this? [Laughs]

Elizabeth Olsen: No, I mean who we are in scenes with and who we’re not, then you‘ll know who are in it. I don’t know. But there are people.

Paul Bettany: Because there’s many strands to the film.

  We’ve clarified the changes and confusion surrounding Captain Marvel here.

  Press: Avengers: Infinity War Set Visit – Elizabeth Olsen & Paul Bettany Interview was originally published on Elizabeth Olsen Source • Your source for everything Elizabeth Olsen

[delulu-with-wandanat]

(HOLYSHIT still very much is) Stuck in our Universe

(Fast forward they explained the multiverse and whatnot and proved this wasn’t some prank from marvel studio)

Scarlett: I really still can’t believe it’s real…

Natasha: Believe me, I’m still pretty shock too.

Scarlett *motherly look*: So then… Your backstory, you really went through all of that?

Natasha *faint sad smile*: Yes.

Scarlett: You’re a very strong woman, Natasha. I’m sorry for all the pain you had to endure, I hope you know that you are an inspiration to myself and many other women.

Natasha *touched*: Thank you, Scarlett.

- Meanwhile -

Elizabeth: So… you can do actual witchy stuff?

Wanda *glaring*: Clearly, as I rendered you unconscious

Elizabeth: Well you have a shitty attitude-

Wanda: You SMACK my girlfriend!

Elizabeth: I still can’t believe you’re dating Natasha. Scarlett and I barely have any screen time together.

Wanda: Oh please, I could do better than some walking chatgpt-

Vision:

Finally a Scarlett and Natasha interaction 😩🫶 @jeyansbadhabets

I read somewhere and they said “No one loves Natasha Romanoff more than Scarlett Johansson” and I just had to give them almost like a mother/daughter interaction.

Ps: I’m sure Elizabeth Olsen also loves Wanda Maximoff but unfortunately I’m obsessed on writing chaotic Wanda who for some reason has personal beef with Lizzie LMAO-