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Can you imagine anyone else playing Wanda now? Probably not, but we’d never have gotten to see Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff if she had cracked her Game of Thrones audition.
Yes, Olsen had actually auditioned to play the Mother of Dragons in Game of Thrones, but things didn’t go as per plans.
Later, Emilia Clarke took on the role and made Daenerys famous, but Olsen was left with a pretty embarrassing audition story. In fact, she still remembers it as the most awkward audition of her career.
Elizabeth Olsen’s Game Of Thrones Character Was A Disaster
In a 2019 interview with Vulture, Elizabeth Olsen revealed that she had auditioned for almost every role she could find when she was starting her career. One of those iconic roles was Daenerys Targaryen in HBO’s Game of Thrones.
In the interview, Elizabeth Olsen recalled, “I auditioned for Khaleesi.” She added, “It was the most awkward audition I’d ever had.” Olsen went on to explain that she had to perform a speech from the show’s first season.
The scene required Daenerys to speak in front of thousands of people and declare herself their queen. But there was one problem. The casting team couldn’t decide what accent Daenerys should have. So, Olsen had to deliver the same speech in two different accents.
The experience was so embarrassing that Olsen never forgot it. “Anytime someone says a bad audition story, that’s the one I remember,” she added.
The Popularity Of Scarlet Witch Took Away Olsen’s Regrets
Missing out on Game of Thrones might have seemed like a big deal back then, but looking at Elizabeth Olsen’s career today, things worked out pretty well. After all, she became Scarlet Witch, one of Marvel’s most popular characters.
By 2019, Olsen was already enjoying the success of Avengers: Endgame and preparing for her Disney+ series, WandaVision. The series went on to become so popular that it connected Wanda’s story to Agatha All Along, VisionQuest, and now, Avengers: Doomsday.
Even though we saw Wanda dying in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, VisionQuest’s post-credit scene has not officially teased Wanda’s resurrection by Doctor Doom. That means she’ll be back for real in Avengers: Doomsday.
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