Elizabeth Olsen Chats Obsession & Aubrey Plaza With WWD

Elizabeth Olsen is featured in a new piece from WWD. The young actress is joined by her Ingrid Goes West costar Aubrey Plaza for the photo shoot and sit down. Highlights are below.

On whether or not she was into the social media culture: “No, I think that’s why I was really interested in initially doing this film. It’s something that I’m genuinely fascinated by, and it’s something that I didn’t quite understand — and I probably had an extreme judgment toward, and probably felt ‘better than,’ or something. I was interested in figuring out what’s the deal, from a nonjudgmental point of view. What is this land of Instagram, social media? Having a lot of likes and a lot of followers, and getting paid for it? I kind of found it to be really twisted, but then I started to see how it worked, and see how powerful it was, and how impressionable we all are.”

On becoming obsessed with Aubrey: “I think I became obsessed with getting a reaction from Aubrey, of making her uncomfortable and, like, reversing the characters. And I would just send her photos and weird text messages.”

On role models she had growing up: “I was obsessed with Michelle Pfeiffer as a kid, but I don’t think I was trying to model my childhood around her adulthood. I think the closest thing would probably be my sisters [Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen], because I thought that they were really cool. They had cool style and they had cool friends and they were funny.”

You can check out more from her interview here. Ingrid Goes West opens in theaters later this month!