Why Elizabeth Olsen Calls Doing Her Own Stunts "Ridiculous" | E! News

I didn't do all of them, but I did most of them, which is a waste of everyone's time because a stunt double does it so much better. Elizabeth Olsen would rather leave it to the pros. Stopping by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the actress discusses her love-hate relationship with performing her own Marvel stunts as Scarlet Witch. The last time you were here, you had just done some of your first real Avengers stunts. And you said that when you did the wire stunts, when you got pulled up, it was a problem. It had to do with too many takes because you couldn't stop laughing when they would hoist you up on the wire. Yes, yes. Well, because 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. Have you gotten better at it? Have you gotten better at the wire work? Have you recovered from your giddiness? I've definitely recovered from my giddiness. 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. And sometimes, according to Elizabeth, she just isn't the best person for the job. There is one in Doctor Strange, the multiverse of madness, where I had to be dropped from 30 feet up and land. And they wanted to drop me pretty quickly so that it looked like it had an impact. But I kept landing like Peter Pan, like kind of like fencing. And I was like, just use the double. This is so ridiculous. There's a double for a reason. This is like face for place. They do it all the time. And they used it. And in the movie, I'm landing. They used you. Yeah, and I look like Peter Pan. I look like I'm fencing. It's ridiculous. And we've had so much technology grow through these movies. And they just chose to really use me for every stunt in that movie. And I didn't understand. I didn't do all of them, but I did most of them, which is a waste of everyone's time because a stunt double does it so much better. There's no word yet on when Elizabeth will be returning to the MCU since her character was last seen being crushed under a collapsing building in the Doctor Strange sequel. But as the 34-year-old recently told Screen Rant, the possibilities are endless. Elizabeth said, We can do anything with her now. I feel like we've done so much. Now we can really have fun. I feel like there's a lot more humor to be had with her. She's often the emotion of a story, and I'm curious to see what we can explore and hopefully give her some redemption.