Actress Elizabeth Olsen made it clear that when it came to doing her own film stunts as Marvel’s Scarlet Witch, she had been there and done that — and she’d be just fine with not doing it again.
Olsen made the comments during a recent appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” and she told the host that while she understood why some actors really loved doing their own stunt work, she did not count herself among them.
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Colbert prompted the discussion on stunts by recalling a story he’d heard about how Olsen had to do multiple takes of certain wire stunts because she could not stop laughing.
“Your stomach leaves you. It’s like, I guess, the joy people get on roller coasters, which I don’t get, but people love that feeling… I’ve definitely recovered from my giddiness,” Olsen replied. “Sometimes I’m just like, ‘Okay, how many more of these do you want? I can do this all day’ kind of thing. But sometimes I get a little freaked out.”
Olsen went on to explain that at the end of the day, she felt like it would be better for her stunt double to do those sequences.
“There is one in ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ where I had to be dropped from 30 feet up and land. They wanted to drop me pretty quickly so that it looked like it had an impact, but I kept landing like Peter Pan, kind of like fencing? I was like, ‘Just use the double. This is so ridiculous — there is a double for a reason. Like, face replace …’ They do it all the time. And they used it,” she continued.
Olsen, whose Scarlet Witch went dark in the latest “Doctor Strange” film, said that she had done a lot of her own stunts for that movie and was ready to give up on taking them on herself: “It’s a waste of everyone’s time because a stunt double does it so much better.”