Sky York Journal
Elizabeth Olsen had a vision for her future.
And while it certainly included the WandaVision alum becoming an actress, she wasn’t interested in the same kind of stardom her older sisters Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen experienced as kids.
“I thought I wanted to be a child actor,” Elizabeth confessed to InStyle in an interview published, Oct. 21, “but then my ballet teacher wouldn’t put me in The Nutcracker because I’d missed so many rehearsals.”
As the 36-year-old recalled, that was the only production of The Nutcracker that she missed because she was “auditioning for TV or film.”
“I wanted to have the career I have now,” the Emmy nominee continued, “but I didn’t need to do it until later. I wanted to do recess with my friends.”
Though she did have a few cameos in her older sisters’ movies—like 1994’s How the West Was Fun—it wasn’t until 2011 when Elizabeth truly made her name as an actress after her film Martha Marcy May Marlene debuted at the Sundance Film Festival.
