Elizabeth Olsen wants to meet the X-Men now that Hugh Jackman returns as Wolverine

They waited, but mutants are finally canon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ever since Disney bought 20th Century Fox and with it all the Marvel Comics characters whose rights belonged to it, fans have been very excited to see how the introduction of the X-Men into the MCU would happen, a process it is doing. its course. time, but it has already begun, with the first brushstrokes: the appearance of Patrick Stewart as Professor X in ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’, the revelation that Kamala Khan is a mutant (contrary to the comics, where he is inhuman ), confirmation that Namor (Tenoch Huerta) will also be in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and the recent bombshell that Hugh Jackman will return as Wolverine in “Deadpool 3”.

The news broke out on the Internet this week, but Elizabeth Olsen, one of the current mainstays of the MCU, hadn’t discovered it yet. Or so she told Variety at the Power of Women event. When she got the news, Olsen responded in surprise: “Really Wow!”. Of course, now that Jackman’s Wolverine is officially back, fans are already dreaming of a meeting between Logan and Wanda Maximoff, we remember that she is a mutant in the comics and her father is Magneto.

When asked which characters he wants to collaborate with in the future of the MCU, Olsen replies: “I think Wolverine is from the X-Men. So it would be great to work with all those people from the ‘X-Men’ franchise. I guess Fassbender is my father in some world?”. Wanda has already met Charles Xavier in the sequel to ‘Doctor Strange (Doctor Strange)’, but it remains to be seen how the incorporation of the X-Men into the MCU will develop and whether it will in any way affect the version of the Scarlet we know.

As for the return of Wanda, which is not officially confirmed, although it is completely obvious, the boss of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, does not want to advance too much, but it is clear that there are big plans for the character, as he also comments to Variety: “There is much more to explore. We haven’t touched on many of its central comic book plots yet. If we could, I’d work with Lizzie for another 100 years. Anything is possible in the multiverse! We will see”.

Fight against sexual abuse

Elizabeth Olsen attended Variety’s Power of Women event, held Wednesday, September 28 in Los Angeles, where the Marvel actress gave a speech in tribute to her personal heroine, Gail Abarbanel, founder and director of the Stuart House program, within The Rape Foundation, for which Olsen volunteers.

The actress took advantage of the event to reaffirm her fight against sexual abuse, talking about The Rape Foundation’s next goal: “Stop sexual abuse on the Internet”. “It seemed like something very big and perhaps impossible to me. But if you had asked me [a Abarbanel] even what I wanted to create in 1974 would have sounded so big and impossible “declared the interpreter. Olsen will continue his volunteer work with the foundation, which consists of accompany their workers in their work to welcome children who have been sexually abused and provide a safe place for the victims.