CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR - Elizabeth Olsen Discusses the Growth of Scarlet Witch and Connection to Vision
In AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON she lost her twin brother Pietro / Quicksilver after they both made the decision to side with the Avengers, and in the closing scene she becomes a New Avenger. A year has passed — both in real-time and in Marvel Cinematic Universe time — and Scarlet Witch will appear in CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR.
While speaking with press during a set visit to Atlanta last summer (via ScreenRant), actor Elizabeth Olsen shared Wanda's growth as a character from one movie to the next.
"[After Age of Ultron] We leave Scarlet Witch without a home, without a family, and she ends up creating a surrogate family within the Avengers and making a decision to be a part of the team. I think a lot of that has to do with [Jeremy Renner's] character – like his attitude towards her and the speech he gives her at the end of the film. So we pick up with her having started a new life, but still trying to figure out what her abilities are and if using them causes greater good or greater damage.
"Yeah, you’ll see her do some things that she didn’t get to do in the first one. I think part of that comes from time’s passed, and she’s been in an environment where training is part of the thing. It’s not like we do a montage of her discovering her powers like in every X-Men film [laughs] but yeah, there’s no montage. But she does have these new abilities that we pick her up with."
She, then, spoke about her connection with Vision.
"Yeah I mean I think there’s something unique in the fact that her powers come from the same thing that powers him, and that is how we’ve made them have that kind of… that specifically in common, as opposed to it being something else that the comics kind of created, which has been pure romance. But they do have something uniquely special because of that."
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR releases on May 6.