Elizabeth Olsen Defends Scarlet Witch’s Worst Decision In The MCU

Olsen makes it clear that, in her mind, Wanda is aware of her shortcomings. Scarlet Witch has «her own realizations and admit[s] when she makes mistakes,» she says. «And that affects her in different ways … ‘WandaVision’ was this journey of her, for the first time, taking her life into her own hands, making decisions for herself, and recognizing that maybe she has a lot to process.»

Despite spending an entire season of «WandaVision» holding a town hostage so that Wanda can live out her sitcom-inspired fantasies, Olsen says she understands the conflict her character must have been going through after losing Vision in «Avengers: Infinity War.» At the end of «WandaVision,» Scarlet Witch is left «feeling a sense of accountability for what she had done to this town and to these people, but then also experiencing this huge loss of this other life that she had created for herself — that now can exist In The Multiverse.»

While Olsen seemingly sympathizes with the desire, it’s this longing for a fabricated life that nearly leads to all of reality unraveling in the MCU. Wanda Maximoff has always been one of the franchise’s more tortured characters, and these quotes prove Olsen was well aware of the torment going on in her character’s head. While Scarlet Witch seemingly dies at the end of «Multiverse of Madness,» death is often only temporary in the MCU. So we may get to see Olsen dive deeper into Wanda’s troubled psyche in the future.