'I Just Have No Idea How or When': Marvel's Scarlet Witch Star Elizabeth Olsen 'Keen' To Return, But Plays Down Hopes For Avengers: Doomsday

Marvel prima Elizabeth Olsen has told fans not to expect her instrumentality successful Avengers: Doomsday, contempt the histrion being keen to reprise her relation arsenic Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch.

Speaking to The Playlist, Olsen said she was "proud" of her clip arsenic Maximoff, but was unsure erstwhile she would adjacent play the quality — adjacent if she was looking guardant to doing so.

"I don't person an reply for that," Olsen said erstwhile asked erstwhile viewers volition spot Wanda again. When told that Marvel fans volition presume she'll look successful adjacent year's star-studded Avengers: Doomsday, Olsen replied: "Well, I can't."

"I privation to spot [her] instrumentality successful this relation due to the fact that I deliberation what they've done with her is truly great, and I emotion the travel she's taken," Olsen continued. "I deliberation it's ever a amusive 1 to get to spell backmost into, and I conscionable person nary thought however oregon when, for sure."

Still, things dependable a small much promising than Olsen's erstwhile remark connected the matter, erstwhile she said she didn't adjacent cognize if Wanda was alive. When viewers past saw Olsen represent the quality successful Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness, Maximoff's destiny was near up to intepretation. Sacrificing herself aft spending astir of the movie arsenic a baddie, viewers saw Wanda crushed nether the value of Mount Wundagore, followed by a little flash of reddish light.

Maximoff's corpse past turned up successful the archetypal occurrence of WandaVision spin-off bid Agatha All Along, though this was yet suggested to beryllium a magical illusion.

Still, fans person spent the past fewer years suggesting each the ways Maximoff could inactive instrumentality — and wherefore it was apt she'll bash so. Whether done immoderate magical spell oregon multiversal portal, Wanda's eventual instrumentality feels inevitable, particularly considering the assorted crippled threads related to the quality that inactive request wrapping up.

Fans are keen to spot Wanda yet escaped herself of her demons and usage her powers for good, aft trapping a tiny municipality successful an illusion to woody with her grief, past bloodily murdering an alternate-universe superhero squad to effort and bargain the powers of a teenager.

Questions stay astir the destiny of Wanda and Vision's sort-of-real children Billy and Tommy, the archetypal of whom played a cardinal relation successful Agatha All Along. With adjacent year's VisionQuest expected to delve deeper into this plotline, volition Marvel truly walk up the anticipation of reuniting them some with their mother.

And, speaking of families, what astir Magneto? With Ian McKellen acceptable to reprise his X-Men relation successful Avengers: Doomsday (and perchance besides Avengers: Secret Wars?) volition Marvel truly disregard the accidental to brace him up with his daughter?

Of course, the anticipation remains that Olsen knows precisely erstwhile she'll instrumentality arsenic Wanda, and is simply employing the now-familiar maneuver of keeping tight-lipped astir things she's not allowed to sermon (otherwise known arsenic the Andrew Garfield approach). Olsen is the latest successful a enactment of stars adamant they won't look successful Avengers: Doomsday, including X-Men seasoned Famke Janssen, Daredevil prima Charlie Cox, and — of people — Andrew Garfield. Time volition archer if they were fibbing.

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