Martin Scorsese brutally likened them to theme park rides. Francis Ford Coppola has absolutely no time for them. Wanda Maximoff though? She thinks we all need to cut Marvel films a lot of slack.
While promoting Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Elizabeth Olsen came to the defence of Marvel, hailing the work that goes on behind-the-scenes. “I’m not saying we’re making indie art films, but I just think it takes away from our crew, which bugs me,” the actress told The Independent.
“These are some of the most amazing set designers, costume designers, camera operators — I feel diminishing them with that kind of criticism takes away from all the people who do award-winning films, that also work on these projects.”
Olsen continued: “From an actor’s point of view, whatever, I get it; I totally understand that there’s a different kind of performance that’s happening. But I do think throwing Marvel under the bus takes away from the hundreds of very talented crew people. That’s where I get a little feisty about that.”
The Independent interview comes around the same time Olsen appeared on Jimmy Fallon and said something very curious: she insisted that she can never watch the Marvel films she’s in because she always thinks they’re failures. “Every time I just think, “it’s our first flop,'” she said to Fallon’s shock. “I saw Avengers: Endgame and I looked around me and said, ‘Is it our first flop?’ I was like, ‘I don’t know. I don’t know about this one.'”
Doctor Strange 2 was released at the start of this month and has already become the third highest-grossing film of 2022. Olsen’s performance in the film has attracted lots of positive reviews, with Den of Geek noting that the actress brought “real, palpable, heartbreaking grief to the part along with an electrifying single-mindedness.”
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