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Elizabeth Olsen sets a condition she will follow for all her future movies. While she is best known for playing Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch in numerous Marvel Cinematic Universe movies and Disney+'s WandaVision series, Olsen has a vast filmography. Outside the MCU, Elizabeth Olsen's movies include The Assessment, His Three Daughters, Wind River, Ingrid Goes West, Godzilla, Martha Marcy May Marlene, and Liberal Arts. She also starred in the television series Sorry for Your Loss and Love & Death. While speaking with InStyle about her upcoming romantic comedy movie Eternity and her career, Olsen now reveals that she will only sign onto films that have a theatrical release. This is because she believes in the communal experience that comes from an audience seeing a movie in theaters together, which she compares to the crowds at sporting events. Check out her comments below: I think it's important for people to gather as a community, to see other humans, be together in a space. That’s why I like sports. I think it's really powerful for people to come together for something that they're excited about. Olsen does clarify that she supports independently-made movies being sold to a streamer, but she does not believe that films should only be available via streaming without any kind of theatrical release: If a movie is made independently and only sells to a streamer, then fine. But I don't want to make something where that's the end-all. This comes at a time when many studios are trying to find the right balance between theatrical and streaming releases, along with finding ways to get audiences to theaters. Olsen's new condition is a win for the theatrical experience, as at least for the first weeks after being released, her new movies will only be available in theaters now. Most of Olsen's movies have had wide theatrical releases before becoming available to stream. A notable exception is His Three Daughters, which was only in select theaters for two weeks before it began exclusively streaming on Netflix. The streamer has traditionally been reluctant to put its original movies into theaters, and this is now seemingly a deterrent for Olsen working with them again. There continues to be speculation about whether Olsen will reprise her role as Wanda/Scarlet Witch and join Avengers: Doomsday's cast. MCU movies have always been released in theaters, so if she returns in Doomsday or one of the franchise's other upcoming films, she will still be adhering to her new rule.
