Elizabeth Olsen: Aging is such a privilege
Elizabeth Olsen has confessed that she thinks about mortality "all the time".
Elizabeth Olsen thinks about mortality "all the time".
The 36-year-old actress plays a 90-year-old woman inside her own 30-something-year-old body in Eternity, the new fantasy romcom, and Elizabeth has explained how her latest movie has influenced her own approach to aging.
She told The Hollywood Reporter: "I think about mortality all the time. But Eternity has actually made me think even more about how aging is such a privilege and how badly I would love to grow old.
"It’s something I’d already been thinking about, because I wasn’t lucky enough to meet more than one grandparent.
"You just don’t know if you are going to have that opportunity to grow old. You don’t know when your time is going to come. But growing old is something that some of us are lucky to be able to do, and so I think more about how lucky we are if we do get to do it."
Elizabeth also revealed what attracted her to star in Eternity.
The actress shared: "The script reminded me more of something my mother would’ve shown me as a little girl. It reminded me of a funny older film that she would’ve loved. And yet, at the same time, the writing is contemporary. There’s this screwball element along with these universal truths and comforts that I thought was a nice opportunity."
Meanwhile, Elizabeth recently revealed that she wants all of her movies to have a theatrical release.
The actress is happy to make a movie for a streamer - but she always prefers to star in projects that have a theatrical release, too.
She told InStyle magazine: "If a movie is made independently and only sells to a streamer, then fine. But I don’t want to make something where [streaming is] the end-all.
"I think it’s important for people to gather as a community, to see other humans, be together in a space. That’s why I like sports. I think it’s really powerful for people to come together for something that they’re excited about. We don’t even audition in person anymore."
