Elizabeth Olsen gets real about the 'insane' difficulties of shooting the Avengers movies!

Joining the chat this morning is a Hollywood superstar you'll best know as Wanda Maximoff in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and she's telling us all about a brand new film, Eternity, that's out this Friday. Please, guys, give a big Capital Breakfast welcome to Elizabeth Olsen. Come on. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? Because we hear you're a bit of a fan of the UK. I am a big fan of the UK. I mean, I wish I weren't here for just three nights. I wish I were here for the rest of the holiday season. But I do love getting to work here, and I've been very lucky to work here for long periods of time. I was here earlier this year working and living by the Heath, and it was very romantic. Really? Yeah. I mean, what's nicer than the Heath? You could walk through it at night time with a flashlight. Or a torch. I reckon that'd be very surreal for the other sort of dog walkers on the Heath. But you do, you bump into all sorts of people there, don't you? You do. It is like a movie. How me and Chris met. True story, we'll do that another time. So you're here to talk about the new movie Eternity, which we'll get into because it's such, I think it's such a clever concept, and there's a lot of, it's emotional, it's a roller coaster. But what was interesting when we did a bit of digging is it makes you think about where you would want to spend your life for the rest of your time. And when you were younger, did you have a bit of an obsession with living on the English coast? I had an obsession with being lucky enough to be an old woman because I wasn't around a lot of, I didn't have a lot of my grandparents, I only had one, and I didn't know a lot of older people. And so I had this idealized version of being, and I don't even know exactly why I started thinking about English coastal areas, but I had this dream of being old and alone being the key word, which is strange to fantasize about. Sick of everyone already at nine years old. And I wanted to live in just a cottage and have a small town I could walk to. And I don't know, I just had, I would talk to my high school boyfriend about it and he thought it was so strange that I wanted to be old so badly. And he's like, what about all the things that lead up to it? And I just thought how lucky you would be to have all these experiences to talk about and share with other people. And just thinking about where you could live in the UK and fast forwarding a few years, what we thought we could do is pitch our hometowns to you and just give you a little idea of where you could be. I might not know them. Yes, exactly, it's fine, we'll sell them to you. Okay, great, great, great. Who wants to go first? Shania, you go up first, Nottingham. I reckon three words, yeah? Oh, okay. Robin Hood. Yeah. Is from Nottingham. Goose Fair. Oh, great. That's a lot of poop. Yeah, there's a lot of geese. What else can I say? And the xylophone man, that was, he was almost famous in our town square. He just played the xylophone. Yeah, okay. Do you think I sold to Nottingham? Yeah, three words, it's hard to do, isn't it? That was really, really good. Okay, so I'm from Watford. Have you heard of Watford? I have heard of Watford. Have you? Yeah, I don't know. I don't think I've been, but I've heard of Watford. Okay, well, it's a fabulous place. I'm saying beers, burgers, beavers. Okay, wow. It's a great night out. Not Elton John. That's why I've heard of it, though. Yeah, Elton John, I mean, I could have thrown Elton John your way as well, but you know, I've got to show you the real Watford. You're not going to meet Elton John. Sure, to show the beavers. Okay, my hometown is Burnley. Chips, pies, and gravy. Wow, really? Just food? It's the best way. It's cheap beer as well. Cheap beer, chips, pies, and gravy. So of the three, have any of us swayed you? I think Nottingham is the one that's got to be. Yay, there you go. It sounded like it had quite a bit of diversity. Thank you. Yes, a lot going on. Right, we need to talk about your new film, Eternity. It's based in the afterlife, and your character, Joan, has to make the ultimate decision. Tell everybody about it, because we think it's such a good idea. Yes, I get to the afterlife, and my husband, who died young in war, has been waiting for me for 67 years, unbeknownst to me, until I arrived. And my husband, who died two weeks before, choking on a pretzel, is also there. And I have a week to choose who I would like to spend eternity with, or at all. I could choose anything, really. When you first read the script, was it one of them, like, oh, because when... Was it like, this is a great idea? Yeah, I thought the concept was something my mother could have shown me as a little girl. It was something that I felt would have suited so many different generations of filmmakers. It has this screwball comedy element, so it has this old-school humor to it. But the actual dialogue, and even the concept of what this eternity looks like, I feel like is very contemporary and reflective of culture today. When you get to this junction, it's just a convention of basically more bureaucratic consumerism and capitalism, and everyone trying to sell something to you. And I do think as a culture, that is what we've become. We're just trying to sell the most idealized version of anything to everyone at all times, and to think that when you die, that you go and you have this revelatory spiritual experience, and it's actually just more sell, sell, sell and consumerism, as the backdrop to show this contrast of a very simple and ordinary love story between two people. I found that to be funny, but also meaningful. And so I loved reading this script. You're right in that way. It's like an age-old story. And there's always been that dilemma of what would happen if the person that went off to war that you thought had died actually hadn't. That's been a story that you've seen before. And so it makes it quite wholesome. It's a wholesome comedy with a real almost black mirror edge to it. And actually in the movie, if you think about who you're deciding with, I mean, this would be sort of every girl's nightmare to choose, Callum Turner or Miles Teller. How do you pick? How are you going to pick out of them two? Were they both great to work with? Lovely. Yeah. And we've had almost even a better time doing press together. They're such sweet, good guys who are also very funny. And we rib each other doing press. We were ribbing each other filming. It was very playful. We all felt like we could kind of look like idiots around one another. And that really feels nice when you're doing a comedy. It was a great group of people. Obviously, as you can imagine, the Marvel fans have been on the text. They knew you were coming in. Very excited. Harriet said she's a huge fan. When will you be returning to the MCU as Wanda, aka the Scarlet Witch? Please tell us it's happening soon. I have no answers. Oh, this is the thing. Marvel, it's lock and key. It's lock and key, but even to the people in it. Do you know, I found out who you have to blame, by the way. Who? It was Samuel L. Jackson's fault. What do you mean? Because apparently back in the day, he put a script in like a printer. And then he let it accidentally... He printed two copies, but took one and left the other one in there. Yes, and his name was all over it. Yeah, and an intern found it. Yeah, with a watermark. Yeah, so ever since then, none of us ever know anything what's going on with it. Even if we see a screener of like any of your stuff, we get to see a snippet, don't we? And it's all out of order. Yeah, so we don't get that thing where you get the ending anymore. We never see the full feature. I mean, that is how we shoot Avengers. We only see our parts. Oh, really? So even you can't accidentally leak? I'm allowed to read it in an office, but I can't receive a full script, either digitally or through a password or a hard copy. And so I only get what I'm in so I can prepare that. And then when I show up on the day, they'll explain to me, verbally, what is happening in the context of the film. And that is how we shoot Avengers. That sounds like a mess. Tell me it was a lot easier for Eternity. Yeah, I got the whole script. Golly, what a treat. Lucky girl. You've got to watch it. Eternity is out in cinemas this Friday. Give it up one more time for Elizabeth Olsen. What a legend.