WandaVision alum Elizabeth Olsen revealed her ‘secret shame’ which always makes her ‘feel like I am judged immediately.’
The 36-year-old Emmy nominee is ‘not into animals’ and does not consider herself ‘a pet person’ – which meant taking part in BuzzFeed‘s celebrity favorite, The Puppy Interview, in 2023 made her ‘miserable.’
‘It was hard for me. I was like, these dogs are peeing everywhere and they smell,’ Olsen lamented to Bustle last week. ‘I didn’t enjoy it.’
The Marvel Zombies actress added: ‘I feel like I am judged immediately if I don’t want to hold or touch someone’s pet. But also similarly, I don’t necessarily want to hold other people’s babies either.’
Olsen explained it’s not like she doesn’t find other people’s babies cute or sweet, but she feels like there’s a burden to the ‘responsibility’ of her physically engaging.
‘And it’s only until I feel like a connection to the thing, whatever it is – animal or human – where I want to physically engage with them,’ the Independent Spirit Award winner noted.
WandaVision alum Elizabeth Olsen revealed her ‘secret shame’ which always makes her ‘feel like I am judged immediately’ (pictured November 17)
Olsen is also ‘not a big crier’ in movies aside from the ending scenes of Victor Fleming’s 1939 historical epic Gone with the Wind and Sydney Pollack’s 1973 romantic drama The Way We Were.
‘They both kind of end similarly. “I’ll see you later maybe, honey,”‘ the Sherman Oaks native – who’s an atheist – said.
‘They both kind of have that kind of ending where Barbara’s the one who’s doing it in one and Clark Gable in the other. But yeah, those movies get me every time. But maybe that’s also connected to nostalgia. Again, nostalgia is a very powerful feeling.’
Last Friday, Olsen revealed that her childhood growing up with famous twin sisters – Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen – was ‘pretty chaotic.’
‘I was the youngest of four, and we were all born within five years,’ the nepo sister explained to The Times.
‘So now I think the idea of a calm bath and bedtime story routine is so tender and sweet because we didn’t have anything like that.’
Olsen began acting when she was four years old, appearing in her older siblings’ projects, including the 1994 television film How the West Was Fun and the straight-to-video series The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley.
The Assessment star has not welcomed any children during her six-year marriage to former Milo Greene musician Robbie Arnett, whom she met in 2017.
The 36-year-old Emmy nominee is ‘not into animals’ and does not consider herself ‘a pet person’ – which meant taking part in BuzzFeed’s celebrity favorite, The Puppy Interview, in 2023 (pictured) made her ‘miserable’
‘It was hard for me. I was like, these dogs are peeing everywhere and they smell,’ Olsen lamented to Bustle last week. ‘I didn’t enjoy it’
The Marvel Zombies actress added: ‘I feel like I am judged immediately if I don’t want to hold or touch someone’s pet. But also similarly, I don’t necessarily want to hold other people’s babies either’
Olsen explained it’s not like she doesn’t find other people’s babies cute or sweet, but she feels like there’s a burden to the ‘responsibility’ of her physically engaging
The Independent Spirit Award winner stars as the recently deceased Joan in David Freyne’s love triangle flick Eternity – finally hitting UK theaters December 12 – which only earned $2.1 million at the box office opening weekend
Last Friday, Olsen revealed that her childhood growing up with famous twin sisters – Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen – was ‘pretty chaotic’ (pictured in 2016)
Olsen and the 33-year-old musician have co-authored two children’s books about overcoming anxiety – Hattie Harmony: Worry Detective in 2022 and Hattie Harmony: Opening Night in 2023.
The two-time Golden Globe nominee currently stars as the recently deceased Joan in David Freyne’s love triangle flick Eternity – finally hitting UK theaters December 12 – which only earned $2.1 million at the box office opening weekend.
The afterlife rom-com – also starring Callum Turner and Miles Teller – scored a ‘certified fresh’ 77% critic approval rating (out of 104 reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes.
Olsen’s other upcoming projects include Sam Esmail’s thriller Panic Carefully for Warner Bros. Pictures, Panos Cosmatos’ vampire thriller Flesh Of The Gods, Todd Solondz’s dark comedy Love Child and FX drama pilot Seven Sisters.
