Elizabeth Olsen has a new interview out where she discusses how she actually ended up retiring from acting for a while due to a pros and cons list her parents had her make. Of course, most people used to know Olsen as the younger sister of world famous twins Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, but now she is making waves on the film circuit for her great performances (most notably last year’s Martha Marcy May Marlene). Here’s what she had to say:
“My parents made me write down a pros and cons list. And the cons just piled up. So I figured I’d keep acting as a hobby until I was older. Because I felt that pressure, and that people would say, ‘Oh, that’s nepotism.’ I decided that as long as I felt confident and worked hard for it, instead of having it handed to me, no one could take that away from me. I don’t have any insecurity about it. I never got any job because of my sisters. I could have pulled a few strings through them, but I never needed to.”
She also talks about acting in some of her sisters’ movies, saying, ““Oh, I really got to exercise the acting muscles there – you can’t imagine the awesome thespian demands on the kid playing Girl In Car in How The West Was Fun! And my biggest scene was getting bubblegum out of my hair!”
