Olsen also tells exactly how they decided on the specific accent.
When we first met Elizabeth Olsensee Wanda Maximoff in Avengers: Age of Ultron (after the Captain America: The Winter Soldier teasing), she had a rather heavy Sokovian accent. Wanda and her twin brother Pietro (Aaron Taylor Johnson) grew up there. However, when we are back with the character in Avengers: Infinity War, that accent is gone!
While the press rounds for Infinity War Back in 2018, Wanda’s disappearing accent was a huge topic of conversation Joe and Anthony Russo and explains that they deliberately stripped Wanda of her accent for two main reasons:
‘One is that at the beginning of the Civil War you will see that Black Widow trained her to be a spy, and two are that she fled, and one of the most characteristic features she has is her accent. . ‘
This reasoning does make enough sense, but because most of Wanda’s scenes in Infinity War is only with Vision (Paul Bettany), we could assume what they actually meant: “We just decided to demolish it!” But on a recent episode of Collider Ladies Night, Olsen confirmed that this is not the case at all. Wanda’s accent has disappeared with opinion and also – it’s not completely gone. This is how she put it:
‘The Sokovia accent was therefore created by me and Aaron and our dialect coach because it is a fake country and we could find different sources of Slavic sounds. And we wanted to make sure it did not sound Russian, because Black Widow speaks Russian, and therefore we need to sound more like Slovak. So we created these sound changes that worked for Aaron’s British accent that basically went to Slovakia and my American accent so that we sounded related. And then all these different characters suddenly had to talk it out in different movies. [Laughs] The Sokovian accent therefore took a lot of time. It went nowhere. There were reasons for everything. It eased when she started living in the United States, and in WandaVision she plays the role of being in an American sitcom, so it’s not gone. It is absolutely still there. ”
Does that mean we could see (hear?) The return of Wanda’s Sokovian accent? This teasing from Olsen makes me think this is a real possibility! Olsen also told us that Wanda was at the beginning of an empty lead WandaVision and that ‘the show begins to inform the characters of other things as it goes on.’ Maybe one of those ‘other things’ is her Sokovian accent.
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