Elizabeth Olsen's Transformation Is Seriously Turning Heads

Elizabeth Olson is best known for playing the powerful Scarlet Witch in the mega popular Marvel Cinematic Universe but there were a lot of things in her life that came before her debut in Avengers age of Ultron here's the stunning transformation of Elizabeth Olsen mary-kate and Ashley Olsen starred in the sitcom full house beginning in 1987 this was long before Elizabeth Olsen was born but the show and her sisters subsequent popularity would be a big influence on her childhood too Elizabeth though it was a simple life as she grew up she visited the sets of her sisters on-screen projects very frequently with her brother she told SFGate when my brother and I would get picked up from school that was our after-school care it was really hanging around on set so every once in a while they'd ask us so do you guys want to be in this one we'll put gum in your hair to me it was never acting it was silly and fun while it might still be a fond memory Olsen has expressed the desire to distance herself from the show and its sequel for the house somewhere along the way Elizabeth Olsen's interest in acting was piqued Olsen played a few small parts in projects starring her sisters she laughed off those exciting beginnings in a conversation with the Guardian oh I really got to exercise the acting muscles there you can't imagine the awesome thespian demands on a kid playing girl in car in How the West Was fun after that Olsen briefly tried to get into other projects most notably Spy Kids she ended up not getting the part but it definitely taught her how serious acting could be she told today the script looked bigger than the Bible to me I didn't understand why I would ever read something that big the Olsen twins are well known for being reclusive and hesitant to face the press and it appears that's a family trait elizabeth Olsen shared with the Telegraph I understand that it's not that normal to be worried about being photographed when you're growing up by strange men around Los Angeles who are chasing you in cars it made me despise those kinds of people it made me despise gossip magazines in that same interview she revealed that she likes traveling incognito and does not want to reward quote still career behavior luckily she's found a way to get around being recognized saying when I was at the airport yesterday one guy came up to me and said has anyone ever told you you're the spitting image of Elizabeth Olsen and I say oh yeah I've heard that before and that was it hiding in plain sight works every time many might assume that the Olsons is mom and dad Janette and David were stage parents but that wasn't the case at all Elizabeth told the Guardian my mother's a ballet dancer which isn't what you call a job and the mother of four children and my father works full time in real estate my parents had very little to do with my sister's job really at least not after getting them that first job dad and John net divorced in February 1996 Elizabeth was just six years old at the time David married his coworker a month later some thought the split had fractured the family as Ashley reportedly did not attend the wedding but despite this Elizabeth is reportedly close with both her parents even having her father visit on set sometimes though Elizabeth Olsen didn't turn out to be a break out child star like her sisters it turns out that she just preferred being a kid she had to make a decision when an angry ballet teacher threatened to drop her for missing so many classes after she'd been going on auditions she recounted to SFGate I realized at that point I really love ballet I really have sports I really love doing my camps I really love taking my singing lessons and doing all these things and being a student her parents had her sit down and write a pros and cons list and the cons one out however she would still develop her passion for acting though in a more quiet way than her older sisters however in a few years Elizabeth Olsen would start taking acting much more seriously another adult figure in Elizabeth Olsen's life would influence her to move back into the world of acting a drama teacher at her Los Angeles high school helped her find the academic side of the craft Olsen went on to study at New York University's his School of the Arts and as a sophomore she was accepted into the Atlantic Theatre Company's conservatory program she worked on student projects and auditioned for some professional shows she was eventually cast in the off-broadway production dust and the Broadway show Impressionism from there she was able to land an agent and it looked like her career was taking off however in 2004 her sister mary-kate Olsen entered treatment for an eating disorder the next several years saw the paparazzi harassing the young woman things only got worse when the twins went to New York for school where they had to drop out early the twins then began to attempt to dodge the never ending mob of photographers at this point Elizabeth found the attention abusive saying to nylon they would follow us shopping and mary-kate & Ashley would almost get into car accidents because of the paparazzi and I didn't want to be a part of it I just thought this is such [ __ ] no doubt this difficult period just reaffirmed the Olsens is distrust of the media and informed a lot of Elizabeth Kay genus when it comes to being photographed as a part of her college education Elizabeth Olsen got to spend some time on a completely different continent as a junior she flew all the way to Russia to study for a semester at the Moscow Art Theater school she told nylon my teacher was teaching me the whole Stanislavski training and I love Chekhov so I really wanted to go the semester proved very formative for Olson and her aunt she shared with The Village Voice it was really physical I don't think there's better theater in the world than in Russia the semester I studied at the Moscow Art Theater was much more about using your imagination I thought a lot about theater in my life when I was there the 2011 Sundance festival was Elizabeth Olsen's time to shine she starred in two movies that year Martha Marcy May Marlene and Silent House earning notice for her 80r acting chops oh and she was still taking classes at NYU at the time in case that wasn't enough I filmed one movie before these two but then that that's it two out of three making it at Sundance critics were surprised by this seemingly sudden arrival but this had been a long time coming Olson told nylon when all the Sundance reviews were coming out and they were like it girl of the festival came out of nowhere and she's a nonsense sister my dad would be like don't they know you've been doing this your whole life these people should be writing that you have been working on this forever at least they were finally paying attention better late than never it was time for the world to know the real Elizabeth Olsen after the festival elizabeth Olsen didn't really buy that she had hit the jackpot saying to nylon it's not like everything has changed it's still a struggle just a different kind of struggle films like liberal arts and red lights continued to let her shine and made her a star in the indie film market now Olsen sees that this part of her career really was a great step forward she shared with Vanity Fair what I would have told myself then was to be patient in choosing the next jobs and to believe the noise a bit and to know that this is a hard place to get I had to learn how to make work choices I had to learn how to pick jobs differently I went through a few years of kind of just doing things because I was so lucky and happy to be offered opportunities in hindsight I could have made smarter choices that could have led to a different place Elizabeth Olsen's big splash of course came with her cameo at the end of Captain America Winter Soldier playing Scarlet Witch within the Marvel Cinematic Universe introduced Olsen to the general public she would continue the role in Avengers age of Ultron Captain America Civil War Avengers infinity war and Avengers endgame being the truth thespian she is Olsen was drawn to the characters emotional struggle she explained to Harper's Bazaar in 2018 there was so much emotional depth to her and then there's the fact that she is her own villain because of her inability to understand what her powers are and how to control them it's it's just unbelievable the amount of material she has to draw from of course this newfound fame gave Olsen a ton of new attention which disrupted her private life style every day I think I should delete my Instagram I'm trying to treat this aspect of my life as part of the job it's a distraction more than anything still she appreciates her fans and lovingly calls the MCU community magical Elizabeth Olsen met actor Boyd Holbrook on the set of very good girls in 2012 where they quickly hit it off Olsen and Holbrook moved in together in 2014 and a few months later were engaged this was not long after her sister Mary Kate announced her engagement to Olivier Sarkozy regarding her engagement Olsen told Marie Claire in a 2014 interview I relaxed about it but I'm excited and planning ideas because it's fun it's just like throwing a party to celebrate life unfortunately it was not meant to be and the two split in January 2015 with Olsen allegedly being the one to drop the axe Elizabeth Olsen's down-to-earth lifestyle has apparently made her realize the importance of her position in the public eye her casting as The Scarlet Witch a character with a Jewish and Roma ethnic identity led to some concerns of whitewashing Olsen was surprised by the critiques but understood where they were coming from she said to the Telegraph I know I'm a white blond American woman and I know what that looks like to other people I think it's very important not to fool yourself you can be who you are and still be able to relate to different kinds of people in the world after doing Wind River a film about sexual violence on a reservation Olsen was moved to volunteer weekly at the UCLA Medical Center working with a program that supports victims of sexual assault however as with many things she does in her personal life she kept it on the down-low she told Vanity Fair I don't need to tell people what charity I do I think it's funny when people are like this is my charity it's also not something to brag about it's a really devastating thing in the world soon after the announcement for the streaming service Disney Plus Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige revealed that an Avengers spin-off series featuring Scarlet Witch and the characters superhero love interest vision was slated to premiere on the platform Elizabeth Olsen divulged to Variety that the show titled Wonder vision will be set in the 1950s and that she and her co-star Paul Bettany are excited about the opportunity Olsen and bent-knee have worked together quite a bit in the Avengers films and it seems like they get along very well and they're even able to throw some playful shade at one another for example equipped in a build interview it was very difficult working with Lizzie I felt I carried her the whole way through he meant that literally of course while Elizabeth Olsen had been engaged briefly in the past by 2019 she was ready to give forever love another shot that's the year she accepted a ring from Milo green frontman Robby Arnett Olson and Arnett had been dating for several years when they made the engagement official first appearing in public together back in March 2017 the couple made their red carpet debut later that year the Gersh pre Emmys party and they have been together ever since as for whether or not Olson and Arnett will start a family it's unclear though Olson has said she could imagine children in her home she told modern living I was also thinking there's this small room upstairs which would be good for a kid I don't know where things will lead but I do think about it in that way I think I could raise kids here check out one of our newest videos right here Plus even more list videos about your favorite stars are coming soon subscribe to our YouTube channel and hit the bell so you don't miss a single one [Music]

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Length: 12min 1sec (721 seconds)

Published: Wed May 20 2020