The latest issue of
Empire Magazine is full a new information on Joss Whedon's Marvel's Avengers: Age
of Ultron. This time it's about Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen's
characters Pietro and Wanda, aka Quicksilver, and Scarlet Witch.
First things first, Olsen
revealed how she and Joss Whedon approached Scarlet Witch, the way she moves
and fights.
"The
coolest thing about Scarlet Witch is, because you've never seen her, we got to
create how she moves. Joss was really inspired by dancers, and so he knew
that he wanted to change visually how she moves, to be more like a dancer than
a fighter. I didn't really have to do much stunt training. Instead I trained
with a dancer, Jenny White, which was its own kind of soreness, but it wasn't
what I thought it would be."
Olsen also reveals that although
Age of Ultron is an origin story for her and Taylor-Johnson's characters there
won't a montage type sequence where they both discover how to use their powers,
which are…
"Age
of Ultron is almost our origin story, so we don't have one of those montages
where heroes learn all of their powers in five minutes. We are still
discovering the things we can and cannot do. The extent of her powers isn't
fully explored in Ultron. But she can manipulate objects. And she has visions,
and she has the ability to share them." The actress also adds that "She's
not a mutant!"
From what we could piece together
from the trailer and other promotional contents, the Twins allegiance will
shift from Baron von Strucker, to Ultron, to ultimately the Avengers. Now the
actress says that their upbringing might have something to do with why their
characters don't recognize the "good" guys as "good" guys when
they see them.
"Obviously
there are plenty of countries in the world that hate America, for whatever
history and pain they believe it has caused their own country and their own
lives. That is the world we have created for Wanda and Pietro, to have been
brought up in. What you're told a lot of times growing up is that that,
country, those people, their way of living is the reason why we have been
bombed. [The Avengers] are the worst evil in Wanda and Pietro's mind, not this
guy who hasn't done anything yet." The actress finishes things by ever so slightly teasing
that there might be something there between her and Paul
Bettany's Vision. "[Laughs]
I don't know what you're talking about..."
Moving to faster things, Aaron
Taylor-Johnson says that very befittingly, Quicksilver has a short temper.
"He's
very agitated because everything runs too slowly for him. He's quick at
everything. He's quick to lose his temper." As for how he'll interact with Scarlet Witch,
Johnson added that "It's
more about Pietro and Wanda together, a yin/yang where he's very physical and
very protective of her and she's very internal and always mothering him. Pietro
doesn't [frick]ing trust anybody. She is the only one he cares for and at the
end of the day he will jump in front of a bullet for is his sister,
Wanda."
In
regards to how his powers will be seen on screen, Taylor-Johnson makes it sound like it will be different from The Flash,
or his doppelganger from Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past.
"Every
time I enter or exit a scene I am a blur. I would perfect the skid really well.
You know how you're a kid at school and on a rainy day in the playground the
skidding would be a competition? It was like that. I was really good at
skidding and not just in straight lines. I would run in and then do the scene
and run out and then they'd have to do it exactly the same again but without
any actors. A 'Pietro Pass' is what they'd call it. Then they might need an
'Iron Man Pass' and someone might go in dressed as a big Iron Man, and then a
'Hulk Pass' and they'd get the biggest stunt guy, who's like, f*cking 300lb of
muscle and he'd stand there painted green."
And
speaking of X-Men: Days of Future Past, Johnson doesn't
seem to concerned with him.
"That
was already out there before I even signed the contract. If I'd cared that
much, I would have said no. It didn't phase me for one minute. What I knew of
it was that Evan Peters' Quicksilver was set in the '70s, and it was different.
I didn't watch any of it while making Avengers, but I did see it recently, and
it was fantastic."
Source - Empire
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