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How the pandemic affected the Marvel Cinematic Universe, according to the MCU's Scarlet Witch
WandaVision star Elizabeth Olsen recalls how the pandemic disrupted Marvel Studios
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In 2019 Marvel Studios seemed unstoppable. Avengers: Endgame broke box office records, making over $2.7 billion, while Spider-Man: Far From Home and Captain Marvel both made over $1 billion. The studio was on a creative and commercial high, and they had plenty of reasons to be excited going into 2020. However, we all know what happened in 2020.
“Let’s throw in a pandemic,” Elizabeth Olsen remembered during a spotlight panel at C2E2 2026, when recounting her past in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The actress, who plays Wanda Maximoff in the MCU, had been filming WandaVision, and things were going well. All of a sudden the entire entertainment industry shut down, and Marvel Studios had to figure out how to pick up the pieces. “We hadn’t finished filming WandaVision, and then we stopped because the world stops obviously. We have been making a show about a bubble, which was really wild, and then we return. We’re one of the first shows that are clear to go back to work after the three month pause.”
Olsen went on, “There was like a three month pause, which is crazy, it was only three months, but we were able to get back to work because Disney being the size of a company that it is, they were able to have nurses and stuff. We were able to go back because we were able to do it as safely as possible, and there was no break, we worked for a month after. We were doing all exteriors luckily, that was what we had left. Just everything that was outside. So, for COVID that was great. And then there were the LA fires or something, which wasn’t great for exteriors, and we had to stop because of smoke inhalation.”
With all of those challenges, it’s amazing Marvel Studios was able to pull it off. The next time you watch WandaVision, just remember that the studio had to overcome a global pandemic and catastrophic fires to get it off the ground.
WandaVision is streaming on Disney+.
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