The Avengers 2 Age Of Ultron Update: Aaron Taylor Johnson And Elizabeth Olsen Shares Their Insights In Playing Quicksilver And Scarlett Witch!

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If you watched Captain America: The Winter Soldier, you probably have seen the ending credits which showcased Aaron Taylor Johnson as Quicksilver and Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlett Witch showing-off their powers.

During Godzilla press junket in New York, Screenrant reporters were able to talk to the pair of young actors, about everything from what it's like filming the sequel to the box office behemoth that was Avengers, what it's like stepping into such iconic franchises - and of course, the awkwardness of going from lovers to brother and sister in the span of a single movie.

Olsen was the more forthcoming of the two, playfully parrying the question of what it's like having to pretend that the guy she was just kissing in Godzilla is now her brother in Avengers 2:

"It's awesome! [Laughs] You know, we only did a few scenes together for [Godzilla], but we spent time together in Vancouver, and I got to know his family, and we spent time together. And to play really tight twin brother and sister, it's really lucky it's not with some guy I jut met or something. I think we both like the fact that we have this other film [Godzilla] in our repertoire."

Preparation is always key for an actor who is stepping into a major comic book role - but Olsen has made it clear in past interviews that she is doing substantial research on Scarlett Witch - research she has apparently continued with:

"With 'Avengers', for me it was just like 'Throw it all in!' and just like read. And I'm still reading comics, and I love looking at fan pages for something like that. I think for something like a comic book character, that's something else... But I'm also the first human interpretation of the Scarlet Witch, so you want to be able to honor cartoons and comics and fans and all of that. But bring your own thing to it that you're creating. So that's been a really fun process... But it's awesome because she's dope."

Olsen says that Godzilla was her first major CGI-heavy film - but the process of learning to act against your own imagination is apparently different when on the Avengers 2 set with Joss Whedon:

"It such a different world. It's so crazy. The main difference is that in 'Godzilla' you're reacting to something that isn't there, and in something like 'Avengers', you're approaching and almost interacting with something that's not there. [Pauses then laughs]. And so that's what the main difference is for me, right now."

Taylor-Johnson touched briefly on this ongoing struggle as an actor, in regards to both Godzilla and (what he would only refer to as) "the other movie":

"I don't sort of narrow myself down into any sort of like pocket of genre. I literally just go on the back of the filmmaker and the character, you know? I have to feel that character, believe that character, relate to him, so on... And the filmmaker is hugely important, because at the end of the day it's their vision, and you're going to spend three, six months in that world."

As for the struggle to revisit a character in sequels, most probably his role as Kick-Ass, Johnson says he's still figuring out how to do that:

I think I'd breach those when it comes to the sequels... I guess so, you know? [Laughs] I'm just taking it one day at a time.

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