Marvel star Elizabeth Olsen on growing up with famous sisters

Elizabeth Olsen described growing up with famous sisters as “weird” and said the behavior of the paparazzi was “very scary.”

Olsen, who plays Wanda Maximoff in the Marvel films, is the younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley, the child stars who have now become famous in the fashion world.

At 31, she is three years younger than her twin sisters and remembered the intense media attention at the height of her fame in the early 2000s.

“It’s weird growing up with that,” Olsen said on Jessie Ware’s “Table Manners” podcast. “The paparazzi part was the weird part because they follow you around and as a kid it was very scary. They were obsessed with turning 18.”

Olsen grew up in Los Angeles and knew the members of the pop-rock band Haim, consisting of sisters Este, Danielle and Alana.

She described how she was “intimidated” by Danielle.

Olsen said: “She was just the coolest person in the world and I was really intimidated by her and her group of friends. They played at my best friends’ summer pool party every year.”

Olsen reprises her role as Wanda – also known as Scarlet Witch – in the Disney+ series WandaVision, alongside British-American actor Paul Bettany.

She lives in London with her partner Robbie Arnett and said the couple could stay there permanently.

“I’m having the best time,” she said. “I’m with my partner and we’re in Richmond.”

“We’re living this British dream in this house in Richmond right on the water. We want to figure out how to stay here, so now we want to write a romantic comedy… because we don’t want to leave.

“I already have such an affinity for England that last year we looked into how we could live here legally.”

To hear the full interview, listen to the Table Manners podcast.