Elizabeth Olsen Explains 6-7 to Seth, Shares Why Eternity Is Her Dream Role

Our next guest is an Emmy-nominated actress and producer. You know from her work in WandaVision and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as well as films such as Wind River, Ingrid Goes West, and His Three Daughters. She stars in Eternity, which is in theaters everywhere. This Thanksgiving, let's take a look. How's it looking? What am I supposed to do? I need you to tell me what to do. Oh, my dear. Okay. I read your file. And you are smart, passionate, and decisive. Oh, I... I have complete faith that you will choose the right eternity and the right person to spend it with. You'll do. Do for what? Were you expecting someone? Please welcome back to the show our friend Elizabeth Olsen, everybody! Hi! Have you ever worn tights with your heels set? I haven't, but based on how you were moving, it might not be that easy. It's already hard. I don't know why I just did that to myself. It was so scary walking from there to here. You had a real fear in your eyes. You were looking at me like you had brief amnesia and didn't realize who I was or what this was. I was lost. Completely lost. Mostly because I don't want anybody to do it. If someone pulled the fire alarm right now, you would be the last one out of here by a full ten minutes. I would take these off, and then I'd be sliding all over this floor. So you'd lose either way. I would. Also, this is fine. We're good. We're having a good time. Let me offer you a brief congratulations. I saw you and my friend Jimmy Kimmel talking about how happy you are about the Dodgers and their World Series victory. Congratulations. I didn't do anything, but thank you. You're very welcome. How great were those series? It was an amazing series. This is the truly amazing thing to me. You came to Dodgers fandom in the last ten years. Is that accurate? That's correct. And they're the only sports team you care about. That's correct. Wow. You're like a person who's like, I only like gold. I do only like gold. You have one thing. I only like gold. You can have your diamonds. You can have your silver. I only like gold. And the Dodgers. I think I can get you a cable news ad, just talking about gold during commercial breaks. Did you go to any of the games? Well, I do. I did. I went to a postseason game, and I was reminded why I should never go to a postseason game. Every time I go to a postseason game, they lose. I went to the Brewers, where they lost. And I also watched them lose to the Red Sox, when they lost in 2000. I think it was at 18 or 19. Yeah, 18. Yeah, so I was there when I was at the Dodgers stadium. I think, by the way, I did the same. So I am a Red Sox fan, and in 2004, I had been to... Thank you. Thank you, everybody. See, I accept congratulations. Well, a belated congratulations on the one I watched you win. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you. Thanks for everything you did that night. When we saw you there, we were like, We got a shot! But I had only gone to games where the Red Sox had lost to the Yankees. I think I had gone to, like, three in a row. And I had tickets to the famous game for the American League Championship Series, and I gave the tickets away, because I'm like, I'm the problem. Right, right. And then we won the next eight games, and no one has given me a plaque yet. Right. And it is because of you. Of course it's because of me. Yeah, I mean, I would agree with that. Thank you. I just know I shouldn't be going to these post-game shows. Also, can we say something else? A lot of those games were on too late, and we have to get to bed. I'm watching West Coast Time. Oh, that's right. Yeah, so I'm okay. I will say, this World Series for East Coasters was brutal. It was brutal, and I also do, like, the two hours of the post-game show that follows, because I have Spectrum, and so they do, like, a whole separate thing. Like, you change the channel from Fox to Fox Sports, whatever it is, one or something, and then you go to Spectrum. So you actually like watching post-game analysis? Yes. Wow. Well, specifically for Spectrum, there's a guy named David Vache who interviews the guys, and he's kind of – they, like – I can't tell if they're bullying him. Okay. But he's very funny. But I don't know what's – I don't actually know what their relationship is to him. So funny. So you're watching it less about sports and more about, like, the human dynamics at play? Yes, that's why I can't get into football, because they all have, you know, guards on their face. Oh, you – for you, if you can't see the face, there's no interest. I'm – yeah, I'm invested in the characters. Okay, great. Yeah. I want to talk about your movie. Eternity is what it's called. Yes. But it's sort of – I've heard it billed as a fantasy rom-com. Do you feel like that's accurate? Yeah, it's the rom-com in the afterlife. So it depends. Is the afterlife a fantasy? Yeah. I was happy to see it. I think in this day and age, I liked seeing – I really enjoyed – I felt nice knowing that there's, like, a – an afterlife. I was like, oh, I'd be good with this one. You like this one? Yeah, because you know why? There's immediately red tape bulls**t. Yes. There's a lot of red tape, and you like it. And I would be happy about that. I'd be like, oh, good, it's not going to be that different. No, it's very bureaucratic. It's very similar to the culture we have today. Yeah. We're just throwing consumerism at people. Yeah. It's like a – it's definitely like a capitalist afterlife. And you immediately, like, show up in the afterlife and have to do the thing none of us ever want to do, which is make a decision. Yes, and everyone is forced to make a decision very quickly, for a week, for eternity, for the rest of their lives. And they can't change it, and they're stuck with it. Yes. And there's nothing else they can do. You have a – this, I've heard you say this is a dream role for you. Yeah. But there's a very specific reason that it's true. Yes, because I play a 90-year-old woman who dies and wakes up in the afterlife in this body. Yeah. And you know, usually when people do romantic comedies, they're supposed to be, I think, sexually attractive. And there's something really nice about – Not for me. I don't believe love has anything to do with that. Yeah, you're just not interested in that. I paid to have some actors remake Pretty Woman for all 90-year-olds. But how interesting would that be? And disturbing. I'll give you the VHS. Oh, so that's when you made it, you cow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I mean, there was something really different to get to lean into. And I do feel like an old lady. Oh, in real life. Yeah. Old soul? Not like wise. I do just feel like a little out of touch with the times. Okay. Have you always felt this way? Yeah. Okay. So even in college, you feel like your friends would be like, oh, she's out of touch with the times. Yes, I don't really know what's going on in culture. Gotcha. Yeah. But I do know about 6'7". Oh, congrats. Thank you. I'm really into 6'7". Interesting. Yeah. No, I have children who say it. Yeah. And I've made an active choice to ask no follow-ups. Okay. I can explain it to you. Do you want to try? Yeah, I think someone tried to explain it to me. This is on the record now, so just FYI. So I think the reason they love it is because it's absurd and random. Yeah. And how great. Yeah. Like, I think we're really doing a lot of things that are, I don't know, maybe cynical or pointing at something. And there's something really funny to me about the, like, abstraction and absurdity of just getting excited about two numbers that are in order. Right. That they're in order is even crazier. Yeah. It's like they're not, like, no one's ever said 6'7". You're like, that's all they've done. Yeah. It's not like a funny combination. It's just, like, how it's always been. It's really great. But I feel like the gift I'm giving my sons is to, like, just be, like, dumbfounded by it. Right. Because, like, I think also their joy is, like, I don't get it. Right. That's what they love. Someone was like, what is this? And they're like, huh. Right. And there's nothing to say. Yeah, there's nothing to say. They can't explain it. Except watching someone else be so dumbfounded. Yeah. Which is the joy. I'm very, I'm growing into my role, is when we talk about being old souls. Yeah. Which is, like, my role right now is to be in a house and just be the dumbest piece of s*** anyone's ever had. Like, literally, that's what everybody in my family needs. They're like, look at this dummy who doesn't understand anything. I'm remembering a bit from one of your specials also of when you're playing a game and a part of a piece of the game goes underneath a piece of furniture. They can't keep dice on the table. Yeah. And so, it's like your favorite moment is when you get to hide. Yeah. When I crawl under a couch to find a dice, I just kind of stay there. That really, that really stuck with me. It's really nice. Trust me. Like, at some point, you're like, this is the only place you get to be where, like, nobody's like, what's, like, because I'm pretending like I'm in service to them. Yeah. But I'm really just resting. Yeah. Do you have a specific, like, old trait that you feel like your friends would be like, this is Elizabeth's most? It's, I mean, I don't know if it's a trait or if it's more just like a general embodiment. I was with text. I was doing a lot of periods at the end of sentences until a friend told me that it's really aggressive. Have you, I also was told recently that emojis are now an old person thing. And I was so psyched that I finally, like, got on board. Yeah. I feel like I'm still searching for ones that are clever. Yeah. And some really, like, like, I don't know. I get excited to use, like, the lightning bolt. You know, like, pow! Is kind of how I feel when I use it. By the way, it's, it's so depressing that somebody who is in WandaVision, who, like, literally did some of the best, like, lightning bolt stuff I've ever seen, is like, but have you ever done it in a text? This is what I'm talking about, about the 90-year-old thing, though. I was watching so much Ann-Mira when we were doing Eternity, and I haven't watched the documentary yet. And I was so invested in her and Jerry Stiller's late night bits. And it was, it was so fulfilling to, to use, use that as a reference point for, for my character and for Miles Teller's character. It is very nice. I mean, I will, I will try not to give anything away. But it is very lovely to watch the two of you as actors, obviously, we're very familiar with. Like, you are, you are playing old people in The Curried Bodies. And you both do a wonderful job. And I really enjoyed it. It is, it's a, it's definitely like a cross-generational, I think, viewing experience. It's, it's a, it's a film that's set in this afterlife. But it's a really ordinary love story about a couple that's been married for 65 years and a woman who ends up in the afterlife and discovers that her, her first husband who died in the Korean War is also there and has been waiting for 67 years. And it's, it's, it's a heartfelt and, and a screwball sort of comedy. It's a very nice time of year for it to come out. It's always lovely to see you. Thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate it. You guys, this is Elizabeth Olsen, everybody.