Month: September 2024

elizabeth olsen, wandavision

Marvel has now fully embraced the multiverse, and especially witchcraft, with Agatha All Along premiering this month. However, when Disney+ debuted and the MCU started expanding by getting into the television game with canonical shows, WandaVision became the epilogue for Wanda Maximoff’s Avengers adventures as well as a bridge to the upcoming phase of MCU projects. Elizabeth Olsen, who portrayed Wanda in several MCU movies in addition to the TV show, is now starring in the new Netflix drama His Three Daughters. In promotion for the film, the actress speaks with Harper’s Bazaar, where she talks WandaVision being a career curveball.

Olsen stated in the interview profile, “My career curveball was Wandavision. No one forced me to do that! I have made a choice to continue on with Marvel, and they’ve made a choice to continue on with me. I was really scared about doing a Marvel project for TV, because these are otherworldly, larger-than-life characters that are seen in films, and I didn’t know if it would still work on a television at home. But I had confidence in the format because the storytelling really honoured the TV medium.”

She continues, “We really felt we were Marvel’s weird cousin. We didn’t know it was going to have such a response. It came out during the pandemic and it almost had way more relevance to everyone’s lives; [we were all] trying to function in these bubbles that we were put in, and then there was this world outside of a bubble. No-one even knew what reality was at that point!”

After the consecutive years of working on Marvel projects, Olsen recently talked about finding other projects that she can explore outside of the superhero realm. She stated, “I don’t want… it’s not that I don’t want to be associated as just this character. But I really feel like I need to be building other parts back up for balance. I so much want to do films right now. And I hope some of them come together in the way I feel like they can. But yeah, that’s something that I need. I just need other characters in my life. There’s no longevity in one character.”

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It’s showtime! One year after haunting theaters with one of his most iconic films, Tim Burton launched Beetlejuice, an animated series continuing the spooky adventures of the Ghost with the Most and Lydia Deetz, a pair of unlikely friends from both sides of the mortal coil. Throughout the show’s four-season run, Beetlejuice and Lydia explored the Mortal World and the Neitherworld, a supernatural realm populated by ghouls, ghosts, and unspeakable terrors threatening to upset the balance between life and death.

While Beetlejuice features plenty of original stories filled with visual gags, bizarre creatures, and otherworldly locales, select episodes parody iconic characters and horror staples. ABC aired the first three seasons of Beetlejuice on Saturday mornings. Back in my day, the proper start of the weekend began with a stack of pancakes, a few strips of bacon, a glass of Tropicana orange juice, and my friends, Beetlejuice and Lydia, waiting to take me into parts unknown for a creative and funny look at the afterlife.

Beetlejuice, animated series

I remember Lydia and Beetlejuice cruising around Neitherworld in Doomie, the sentient dragster that, when faced with danger, transformed into a werewolf-like monster truck with a thirst for speed. With Doomie gassed up and ready to roll, Lydia and Beetlejuice encountered many of the Neitherworld’s strange inhabitants, including Jacques LaLean, a French skeleton bodybuilder, Ginger the Tap Dancing Spider, the Monster Across the Street, Beetlejuice’s parents, Bea Juice and Nat Juice, respectively, and more!

For Tim Burton fans who wanted more of the undead trickster’s zany antics, Beetlejuice was the perfect way to continue the character’s legacy and reposition Lydia and the Ghost with the Most as inseparable friends. Lydia loves the Neitherworld and enthusiastically summons Beetlejuice throughout the series, curious about where they’ll end up next. Every episode is as unpredictable as the show’s title character, with scares and surprises waiting around every twisted corner of the Neitherworld.

Do you remember Beetlejuice? Do you have a favorite character from the animated series? When was the last time you saw the show? Are you excited about Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opening in theaters this weekend? Let us know in the comments section below!

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