“Wanda and Vision's journey to this point is a story of pure, innocent love and deep connection with another person,” she explains. The Scarlet Witch's doleful glare is also long gone in its place, Olsen's eyes are wide with excitement. “The show is like a blank slate for them,” Olsen tells me over Zoom, her light brown fringe a departure from Wanda's red waves. It’s unclear exactly how these starcrossed characters got to suburbia, but for now, it’s a delight to see the typically solemn duo sink their teeth into slapstick comedy. Partly inspired by The Vision comic book, which follows synthezoid superhero Vision and his family as they move to the suburbs of Washington, D.C., the Disney+ series is an ode to the TV sitcoms we’ve come to love, with Wanda and Vision (Paul Bettany) basking in newlywed bliss-except Vision’s been very dead (killed twice, in fact) since the events of 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War. Wanda’s never been allowed to fully exist outside the confines of her grief and anger, but with the launch of WandaVision-Marvel’s foray into serialized content for streaming-she may just be getting the happy ending she deserves. When not saving the world, she spends most of her time onscreen grieving the deaths of her parents, twin brother, or lover. After all, “mad” is exactly how 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron introduced us to Wanda Maximoff.ĭefined by tragedy since her Marvel debut, Wanda (aka the Scarlet Witch) is an orphan with telekinetic powers. At one point, Leigh says through a cracked voice, “I’m just mad all the time.” It’s hard not to draw parallels to Olsen’s other angry character. In the 2018 Facebook Watch drama Sorry For Your Loss, Olsen assumes the role of Leigh Shaw, a young widow grappling with the unexpected loss of her husband and all the painful nuisances that come with death: the unbearable waves of sadness, the clichéd condolences, a grief support group that runs out of donuts.

By “this,” I mean in the throes of catastrophe or bereavement, or, to put it plainly, when she's an emotional wreck. We can’t keep meeting Elizabeth Olsen like this.

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