Elizabeth Olsen confirms she won’t return to Marvel for Avengers: Doomsday or Avengers: Secret Wars

Elizabeth Olsen has insisted she is not involved in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ and ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’.

The 36-year-old actress appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch from 2015’s ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ until ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ in 2022, though has now stressed she will not be returning to the superhero franchise for the next two ‘Avengers’ movies due to her busy schedule.

When The Hollywood Reporter asked Olsen if she’d be working on ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ and ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’, she said: "No, I’m back [in the US].

"I just finished [‘Panic Carefully’]. I’m moving on to filming a pilot for FX [called ‘Seven Sisters’]."

Reflecting on her exit from Marvel, Olsen - who can currently be seen in the indie sci-fi movie ‘The Assessment’ - said she was glad to return to smaller films.

She explained: "You end up having fewer people on the crew, and because ‘The Assessment’ also had a smaller cast, there’s such a community that you build to intimately create these [smaller-scale movies].

"You’re also on set more. You’re physically having to do more pages every day, and the rhythm of how you shoot, no time is wasted. I can’t stand wasted time on set. I have a lot of patience, generally speaking, but when there is time where nothing is happening, I really don’t understand it.

"It’s not like that happens a lot, but it does happen sometimes when you have the funds to tinker slowly. So I love the energy of having to get through so much in a day."

The ‘Love and Death’ star added working in blockbuster franchises like the MCU "takes up so much physical time and space in the world", and stressed it was "really important for [her] to make choices outside of Marvel that reflect [her] own taste".

She said: "Your taste does create the artist that you are, and that wasn’t something I was thinking about when I first started working. I was just grateful to be a working actor.

"I wanted to stretch myself into different roles, and I wasn’t really thinking about my taste.

"So the opportunity to return to films like this is a reflection of the people I want to work with and my own personal taste in ways, even if I’m not the filmmaker."

‘The Assessment’ - which was directed by Fleur Fortune - is set in a dystopian future where population control is strictly enforced, and follows a couple (Olsen and Himesh Patel) who undergo a tense week-long evaluation to gain permission to have a child.

As an unsettling government official (Alicia Vikander) pushes them to their limits, they are forced to question their relationship and the society they live in.