Elizabeth Olsen admits that Marvel’s role left her “frustration” by missing a coveted role.

Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch is becoming a key player in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but she’s been typecasted as super-powerful, so she’s “frustrated” that she wasn’t considered for other roles. There was a time when I felt an action star.

In a new interview with New York Times, Olsen talks about how she first joined Marvel. She was afraid she would be typecast as an indie film actress, and she wanted to break away from her stereotypes. She asked the agent why she didn’t get a bigger movie and remembered being told, “People don’t want to do them.”

And while her role in Marvel opened up opportunities for larger projects, ironically, she began to feel eventually trapped in the MCU.

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“I started feeling frustrated. I was keeping this job safe, but I lost these parts that I felt were part of my existence. And the farther away I was. , I didn’t come to consider it, “she explained.

“It [Marvel] I kept me away from the physical ability to do certain jobs that I thought was more consistent with what I enjoyed as a spectator, “she added. “And this means I’m the most honest.”

While she was thinking of leaving the MCU, it was Kevin Feige’s pitch for “WandaVision” that persuaded her to stick.

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“I thought what we were doing was very strange and I was free because I didn’t know if there was an audience,” she said of Disney + Twist Sitcom. “I wasn’t under pressure or fear. It was a really healthy experience.”