Elizabeth Olsen could have been in The Lobster

“I started to feel frustrated,” she says. “I had this job security but I was losing these pieces that I felt were more part of my being. And the further I got away from that, the less I became considered for it.”

Though Olsen was occasionally seen alongside her sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley as a child, she made her mark as an adult with Sundance darlings Martha Marcy May Marlene and Silent House back in 2011. She continued to make a name for herself in lower-key fare before entering the world of big-budget action movies with 2014's Godzilla, though that paled in comparison to her MCU debut the next year in Avengers: Age Of Ultron, which grossed well over a billion dollars at the box office worldwide.

Olsen’s potential involvement in The Lobster was only described as “a starring role.” The 2015 film featured Rachel Weisz as the second lead opposite Colin Farrell, though Olsen could have been considered for other parts.

Outside of the MCU, the WandaVision actress has still been able to appear in indie movies such as Ingrid Goes West and Wind River. She recently wrapped filming on the HBO miniseries Love And Death.

Of course, scheduling conflicts have also prevented actors from being in the MCU. Emily Blunt notoriously missed out on playing Black Widow, a role that Scarlett Johansson went on to hold for a decade, because she was contractually obligated to be in Gulliver’s Travels.