Olsen also details exactly how they decided on that particular accent.
When we meet Elizabeth olsenWanda Maximoff at Avengers: Age of Ultron (after Captain America: The Winter Soldier provocation), she had a very strong Sokovian accent. After all, Wanda and her twin brother Pietro (Aaron Taylor Johnson) grew up there. However, when we meet with the character in Avengers: Infinity War, that accent is gone!
While doing the press round to Infinite War in 2018, Wanda’s missing accent was a very hot topic of conversation with Joe and Anthony Russo explaining that they intentionally removed Wanda from his accent for two main reasons:
“One is that you will notice at the beginning of the Civil War that Black Widow is training her to be a spy, and the second is that she is running away, and one of the most striking features she has is her accent.
This reasoning makes enough sense, but because most of Wanda’s scenes in Infinite War are only with vision (Paul Bettany), it can be assumed that what they really meant was: “We just decided to abandon it!” But in a recent episode of Collider Ladies Night, Olsen really confirmed that this is not the case. Wanda’s accent disappeared on purpose and also – it didn’t disappear entirely. Here’s how she put it:
“So, the Sokovia accent was created by me, Aaron and our dialect trainer because it is a fake country and we could find different sources of Slavic sounds. And we wanted to make sure it didn’t sound Russian because Black Widow speaks Russian, so we just needed to sound more like Slovak. So we created these sound changes that worked for Aaron’s British accent going to Slovakia basically and my American accent so that we looked alike. And then, all of a sudden, all these different characters had to say that in different films. [Laughs] So the Sokovian accent took a long time. It went nowhere. There were reasons for everything. She became lighter when she started to live in the United States, and in WandaVision she is playing the role of being in an American sitcom and so it is not over. It is still absolutely there. ”
Does this mean that we could see (hear?) The return of Wanda’s Sokovian accent? This provocation by Olsen is making me think that it is a real possibility! Olsen also told us that Wanda is essentially a blank slate at the beginning of WandaVision and that “the show is what begins to inform the characters of other things as it progresses”. Perhaps one of those “other things” is his Sokovian accent.
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