Elizabeth Olsen Chats Acting With Vanity Fair

Elizabeth Olsen recently sat down for a chat with Vanity Fair to help promote her new films Ingrid Goes West and Wind River. Highlights from the interview are below.

On advice she would have given her younger self: “…what I would have told myself then was to be patient in choosing the next jobs and to believe the noise a bit and to know that this is a hard place to get to. It just kind of happened quickly. I had to learn how to make work choices; I had to learn how to pick jobs differently. I went through a few years of kind of just doing things because I was so lucky and happy to be offered opportunities. I just was so happy that people wanted to hire me and so I just kind of did things that, in hindsight, I could’ve made smarter choices that could’ve led to a different place.”

On projects she wants to do: “Talking about the through line of my work that I’m choosing to do—not that [the projects] need to have anything in common tonally, obviously between Ingrid and Wind River I want to be in Avengers. . . . It seems all over the place but it’s what I love: it’s quirky, it’s dark, it’s important. It’s different. [The projects I want to do] show life through some sort of more metaphorical landscape and [focus on the] kind of absurd.”

You can read more from her interview here. Wind River and Ingrid Goes West open in theaters on August 11.