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‘Good for you Scarlett’: Elizabeth Olsen praises Johansson for suing Disney

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WandaVision‘s Elizabeth Olsen has taken a stand of support for her fellow Avengers star.

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Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff and Paul Bettany as Vision in Marvel Studios’ WANDAVISION exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. ©Marvel Studios 2020. All Rights Reserved.

Olsen praised Scarlett Johansson’s recent decision to file suit against Disney for allegedly breaching her contract by releasing Black Widow to the Disney+ streaming platform at the same time of the film’s theatrical release.

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She did so during an interview with Jason Sudeikis for Vanity Fair magazine.

Sudeikis asked Olsen a question about whether or not actors today are concerned about films not making theatrical debuts because of COVID-related concerns. It was then that Olsen made her comments about Scarlett Johansson’s decision.

“I think she’s so tough,” Olsen said of Johannson, “and literally, when I read that, I was like, ‘good for you, Scarlett.'”

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Disney continues to deny any wrongdoing in releasing Black Widow to the Disney+ streaming platform, maintaining that Ms. Johannson’s contract was not breached. The media giant filed a motion with the Los Angeles Superior Court, requesting the lawsuit be moved to binding arbitration in New York, just last week, but Johansson’s attorney has said Disney is guilty of ignoring “the contracts of the artists responsible for the success of its films.”

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Olsen clarified that she isn’t concerned on Johansson’s behalf.

“But I’m worried,” she explained, “about small movies getting the opportunity to be seen in theaters.”

Related: Does Kevin Feige still want to work with Scarlett Johannson in the future?

“That was already a thing pre-COVID,” Olsen explained further. “When it comes to actors and their earnings, that’s just all contracts. So it’s either in the contract or it’s not.”

About Becky Burkett

Becky's from the Lone Star State and has been writing since she was 10 and encountered her first Disney Park when she was 11. It was love at first Main Street Electrical Parade. Joy is blank lined journals, 0.7 mm pens, and all things Walt, Woody and Buzz, PIXAR, Imagineering, Sleeping Beauty (make it blue!), Disney Parks history and EPCOT. At Disney World, you'll find her croonin' with the birdies at the Enchanted Tiki Room or hangin' with Woody and the gang at Toy Story Land. If you can dream, you really can do it!