Elizabeth Olsen has said she always managed to hold her own, despite growing up in the shadow of her twin sisters’ global fame.
The young star is currently making a name for herself in the acting world, but as the younger sibling of child actors-turned-fashion icons Mary-Kate and Ashley, she was already used to life in the spotlight.
“It definitely made me look about it almost from a scientific point of view,” she said, and insisted that she and her elder brother Trent weren’t brought up any differently from their famous siblings.
Despite being the youngest from her father’s first marriage (she has two half-siblings from his second marriage), Elizabeth said she’s always managed to hold her own.
“When I think back on childhood, I made every person in my family see three musicals a summer at this kids’ musical theatre camp. “They were terrible but I was not someone who you could push aside,” she laughed.
Screenwriter-producer Naomi Foner’s upcoming directing project Very Good Girls has added Demi Moore to a cast that already includes Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen and Peter Sarsgaard.
Fanning and Olsen play best friends determined to lose their virginity as a rite of passage into the adult world, but when they fall in love with the same boy, the relationship is tested. Moore plays Olsen’s mother in the film that’s produced by Norton Herrick’s Herrick Entertainment and Michael London’s Groundswell Productions. Shooting is to start in New York in June.
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Elizabeth Olsen says her ambition is to work with Oscar-winning actresses like Kate Winslet.
The 23-year-old has seen her career take off after appearing in Silent House and Martha Marcy May Marlene. Elizabeth wants to continue challenging herself and dreams of collaborating with her favourite female movie stars.
“To work with Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton or Kate Winslet,” she replied when asked what her biggest ambition is.
Elizabeth has a hectic work schedule at the moment. She is working on several movies which also star a host of big names.
“I’m playing Edie Parker, Jack Kerouac’s first wife in Kill Your Darlings, with Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg, I’m learning guitar for a movie with Dakota Fanning and I’m in Therese Raquin with Glenn Close – exciting!” Elizabeth gushed.
The star also revealed her interest in working on another horror film. Silent House saw Elizabeth play a character who is trapped inside her increasingly spooky family’s lakeside retreat. She loved making the movie – even if she can’t bear to watch her performance in it.
“I like the feeling of being scared, but if I imagine the horrible facial expressions I’m making, I’m embarrassed!” she exclaimed in an interview with a UK magazine.
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Elizabeth has been chosen as Sexiest up and coming knockout on the annual Victoria’s Secret What Is Sexy list. Every year Victoria’s Secret creates such a list which also includes categories such as Sexiest Actress (Charlize Theron), Sexiest summer style (Blake Lively), Sexiest smile (Jessica Chastain), Sexiest eyes (Jennifer Lawrence) and so on. Click here to see the list with all the winners.
The erotic thriller Thérèse (based on Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin) has begun filming. Shooting on the LD Entertainment production will take place in Belgrade, Serbia and Budapest, Hungary, with Charlie Stratton directing from his own script.
Elizabeth Olsen, recently seen in the thriller Silent House and in 2011′s critically acclaimed Martha Marcy May Marlene, stars as the title character, alongside Harry Potter’s Tom Felton, Oscar Isaac, and Jessica Lange. Shirley Henderson, John Kavanagh, Mackenzie Crook, and Matt Lucas co-star.
The official synopsis: “Set in the lower echelons of 1860s Paris, Thérèse Raquin (Olsen), a sexually repressed and beautiful young woman, is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille (Felton), by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin (Lange). Therese spends her days confined behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband’s alluring friend, Laurent (Isaac), she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences.”
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Hi guys! Sorry for disappearing like that. Life has been hectic (it still is) but I am trying to get the site back up-to-date. So for today I have all the pictures of events Lizzie attended since my last update added to the gallery.
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Hollywood Reporter is saying that Lizzie is in early talks to star in Old Boy. Read the article below.
The actress has an offer to play a case worker who helps investigate a man imprisoned for 15 years and inexplicably released.
Olsen has the offer to play the part of the caseworker who helps investigate the past of the character being played by Brolin, a man kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years and inexplicably released.
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