Elizabeth Olsen on why she loves playing complex characters like Wanda: "I can kind of be their lawyer"
The Doctor Strange And The Multiverse Of Madness actress says having "empathy for people we don't agree with" is "a good thing"

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Elizabeth Olsen at the NY screening of Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images for Disney
If you gather anything from the new Marvel superhero outing Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness, it’s that Wanda Maximoff will do anything to be a mother. She already entrapped a whole town against their consent to play along in her family sitcom fantasy on WandaVision, and she decides to do some even more morally ambiguous things in Doctor Strange 2 for the love of her two fake (sort of?) kids.
Speaking in a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK, the Scarlet Witch herself, Elizabeth Olsen, spoke about why she remains attracted to ethically dubious characters like Wanda and how viewers can learn from them—despite not agreeing with their deeds.