Elizabeth Olsen on Doctor Strange 2
by Capucine · old hollywood: Elizabeth Olsen
Elizabeth Olsen revealed that the Doctor Strange 2 writers had not watched WandaVision until she prompted them to do so. To keep the work engaging for herself, she needed to approach those same themes from a fresh angle. This shift in perspective was necessary to ensure the material did not feel repetitive. #ElizabethOlsen
Transcript (en)
It's a similar arc in Multiverse of Madness that it is in WandaVision. There could be parallel stories being told there of dealing with grief and loss. Well, I proposed that to the writers who wrote Multiverse of Madness. I said, do you know what we're doing in WandaVision? Have you seen it? And no, they had not seen it because it wasn't finished yet. So I had to try and, I don't know, play it differently, right? I had to attack the same themes in order for it to be interesting for me, I think, and potentially for the audience. I just had to come at it from a different point of view so that it wasn't repetitive.
