Elizabeth Olsen Chats Traveling & Quarantine With Condé Nast Traveler

Elizabeth Olsen sat down with Condé Nast Traveler to promote her new series, WandaVision. The young actress will be reprising her role as Wanda Maximoff in the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe creation. Highlights from her interview are below.

On how she has survived quarantine: “The last place I travelled to was Sonoma, a trip I’ve taken quite often during the pandemic. My fiancé’s [musician Robbie Arnett] family has a place in St Helena, so we spend a lot of time up there. That’s been our breathing space, to be able to leave LA, which sometimes feels a bit suffocating.”

On memories she has from childhood holidays: “My sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley would be performing on cruises, but I wasn’t, so I got to enjoy them in a different way. We went to Russia in 1999, when I was 10, which was an interesting time in terms of transitions of power. Then, 10 years later, I went to college in Moscow for three months, and it was really spectacular to see it from that perspective. I got to witness how art really runs the culture. The government had been so repressive for such a long time that the people relied on their poets and authors and playwrights to represent them. After that, studying how American theatre is so influenced by Stanislavski and so on really cemented this strange affinity with Russia – Moscow specifically – which all started when I was just a child.”

You can check out even more from her interview here. WandaVision will premiere on January 15.