Ep 160. Elizabeth Olsen
It\u2019s safe to say that Elizabeth Olsen didn\u2019t have a normal childhood. As the\xa0other\xa0sister to the Olsen twins, Elizabeth Olsen had a front row seat to her sisters\u2019 experience in the spotlight, media circus included, and she also witnessed what it was like to be a working actor\u2014something she wanted to be but was embarrassed to admit. \u201cI had this fear that people would think I didn\u2019t earn or deserve the things I worked for because of who I was naturally associated with.\u201d\n\nThe nepotism critique motivated her to prove her worth, but that turned out to be the easy part. Elizabeth\u2019s a hard worker by nature. After all, you don\u2019t get dubbed NYU\u2019s notorious \u201cRehearsal Nazi\u201d for nothing. And very soon, people started taking notice, and Elizabeth started getting roles, including the one that led to her breakout performance in\xa0Martha Marcy May Marlene. Since then, Elizabeth has conquered the world of independent film (Wind River,\xa0Kodachrome,\xa0Ingrid Goes West) and the blockbuster world of Marvel\u2019s\xa0Avengers\xa0franchise as superhero Scarlet Witch.\n\nElizabeth is the kind of actor who loves the work and the craft, and she\u2019s also the kind of artist who wants to take risks. In her newest project,\xa0Sorry for Your Loss,\xa0a Facebook Watch series that explores grief, she plays a widow trying to piece her life back together\u2014not easy subject matter, but as you\u2019ll see, Elizabeth will rise to any challenge thrown her way.\n\nElizabeth joins\xa0Off Camera\xa0to talk about the biggest lesson she\u2019s learned from her family, why she may be one of the few actors who likes to audition, and why she\u2019s the most Zen type A person you\u2019ll ever meet.