Elizabeth Olsen: ‘My life has been Marvel for four years. I don’t want to be just one character’

Jun 15, 2024

Elizabeth Olsen makes for an unlikely axe murderer. As she walks into her local deli in Studio City, Los Angeles, wearing an oversized navy Reebok jumper with her face hidden beneath sunglasses and a purple cap, it is difficult to imagine the slight 34-year-old Hollywood actress saying a cross word to anyone, never mind attacking them with a hatchet.

Thankfully the television super-producer David E Kelley — he of such buzzy hits as Ally McBeal, Big Little Lies and The Undoing — has greater vision than I do and cast Olsen as an axe-wielding killer in the drama miniseries Love & Death, first shown on HBO Max in America and now coming to ITVX, which tells the true story of a Texas housewife