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Olsen also details exactly how they decided on this particular accent.
When we first met Elizabeth olsenby Wanda Maximoff in Avengers: Age of Ultron (after the Captain America: The Winter Soldier tease), she had a rather heavy Sokovian accent. After all, Wanda and her twin brother Pietro (Aaron Taylor Johnson) grew up there. However, when we find the character in Avengers: Infinity War, that accent is gone!
Going around the press for Infinity war in 2018, Wanda’s fading accent was a hot topic of conversation with Joe and Anthony russo explaining that they deliberately stripped Wanda of her accent for two main reasons:
“First, you’ll notice at the start of the Civil War that Black Widow trains her to become a spy, and second, she’s been on the run, and one of the most distinguishing characteristics she has is her accent.”
This reasoning makes enough sense, but because most of the scenes of Wanda in Infinity war are just with Vision (Paul Bettany), one would assume that what they really meant was, “We just decided to let it go!” But, on a recent episode of Collider Ladies Night, Olsen actually confirmed that was not the case at all. Wanda’s focus is gone with determination and also – it’s not totally gone. Here’s how she said it:
“So the Sokovia accent was created by me and Aaron and our dialect trainer because it’s a fake country and we could find different sources of Slavic sounds. And we wanted to make sure it didn’t sound Russian because Black Widow speaks Russian, so we just needed to sound more like Slovak. So we made these sound changes that worked for Aaron’s British accent going mostly to Slovakia and my American accent so we sounded linked. And then all of a sudden all these different characters must have been talking about it in different movies. [Laughs] So the Sokovian accent took a long time. He didn’t go anywhere. There were reasons for everything. It lightened up when she started living in the United States, and in WandaVision she is playing the role of being on an American sitcom and so it didn’t go away. He is absolutely still there.
Does that mean we could see (hear?) Wanda’s return of the Sokovian accent? This Olsen tease makes me think it’s a real possibility! Olsen also told us that Wanda is essentially a blank slate at the start of WandaVision and that “the show is what starts to inform the characters of other things as it goes.” Maybe one of those “other things” will be his Sokovian accent.
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