Elizabeth Olsen has opened up about the difficulties of filming the brutal scene of the murder with an ax in her true-crime series, 'Love & Death'.
The HBO series follows Olsen as Texan housewife Candy Montgomery, who in 1980 was accused of murdering her friend Betty Gore. The star of 'American Horror Story', Lily Rabe, is in charge of getting into Betty's skin. The series is based on true events.
"At the time, Lily was six months pregnant. It was horrible. She had a double, and they could also erase [her belly] in post-production, but hey... She was wearing a little T-shirt with a six-month-old belly underneath. It was crazy And yet, she really wanted to do it all," Olsen said.
"Lily is physically very strong, so there was a lot of tension. On the one hand, I felt safe because we had choreography, but there was also a part of me that didn't want to do it at all. It was a lot of things."
After this, he continued to explain: "My experience in other fight sequences did not involve melee. So, sometimes, it was a little scary. Also, there were times when Lily would ask me, with the ax of rubber, to make contact with his body. I couldn't, I was like, 'You're going to have to do this with my stunt double.'"
Last year, Olsen brought the Scarlet Witch back to life in Marvel's "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness." From the looks of it, her character dies at the end of the movie. However, thanks to the various Marvel universes, she could return in the future.
Olsen recently commented that, if she were to come back, she would like Wanda Maximoff to have a much better sense of humor.
"Now we can do anything with her! I think we've done a lot. Now we can really have fun; I think there's a lot more humor to get out of it. It's often the emotional part of the story and I'm curious to see what else we can explore. I hope we can give him some kind of redemption," Olsen said.
