Elizabeth Olsen Explains How Her Sisters' Fame Impacted Her Acting Career

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Martha Marcy May Marlene. Since then, she's starred in numerous award-winning films and TV series, even earning an Emmy nomination in 2021 for her role as Wanda Maximoff in the popular Disney+ series .Of course, there's a certain amount of pressure when you come from a famous family. “I’ve always felt that presence, which made me work harder and maybe have a chip on my shoulder, to be over-prepared and disciplined, so I could feel like I was earning it,” she says.

During her undergraduate career at the New York University Tisch School of Arts, she always pushed herself to be the best, she adds. “That feeling definitely settled five years into working, but I had this need to be the hardest-working student when I was in school.”Earlier this year the actor to a snide question from a paparazzo regarding her older sisters. “How come you're so much nicer than your sisters?" he asked.

To which Olsen responded, "Because you guys have been bothering them their whole lives.” Olsen has been very vocal in the past about the toll media took on her sisters, and how she resents the paparazzi. “They would follow us shopping and [Mary-Kate and Ashley] would almost get into car accidents because of the paparazzi, and I didn't want to be a part of it.

I just thought ‘This is such bullshit’,” she said in her I mean…she's not wrong!More from GlamourSee More Stories© 2022 Condé Nast.