"Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" is currently tearing up the box office, and for my money, easily the best thing about it is Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff, aka the Scarlet Witch. We saw a little of Wanda's dark side come out in "WandaVision," but nothing in there prepared us for the horror she would bring in "Multiverse of Madness." Wanda is a vicious villain in this, killing anyone who stands between her and reuniting with her children in an alternate universe.
In fact, Wanda is so extreme in this movie that it's kind of hard to wrap your head around the idea that this is the same woman from "WandaVision." And according to Olsen, things were originally supposed to be even grimmer. "I was also supposed to kill more," she told Variety. "I had a hard time with it. I was like, these are human beings and Wanda is OK with ending their lives? But I just had to buckle down and think all these people are in her way and she's warned Doctor Strange [Benedict Cumberbatch] not to get in her way. And he did. He didn't listen. And so I just had to go from that point of view."
