Learn More About Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver's Roles in 'Avengers: Age of Ultron'
The core Marvel Cinematic Universe gang is getting back together to save the world again in Avengers: Age of Ultron, and this time, they’ve got some new members of their semi-dysfunctional super-squad.
While much of the marketing has understandably focused on Iron Man and the other marquee superheroes, a new behind-the-scenes clip from Marvel above introduces fans to Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, the twins played by Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor Johnson.
In the spirit of The Divergent Series, which features The Fault in Our Stars on-screen couple Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort as siblings, Avengers: Age of Ultron follows last summer’s Godzilla, in which Olsen and Taylor-Johnson play a married couple.
Here’s the basic background, as explained in the video: The two characters, Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, were orphaned when a shell hit their building when they were 10-years-old. They’re mutants — the characters originally appeared in X-Men #4 in 1964 — and made cameos at the end of Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
“He’s fast and quick and anxious, and she’s grounded and thoughtful,” Olsen explains in the video. “It’s them against the world,” Johnson adds.
The duo start out working for Ultron, and as the featurette shows, Scarlett Witch’s telekinesis power causes a lot of trouble for the original members of The Avengers. At some point, of course, they cross over to the good guys’ team, though we’re not exactly sure how or why yet (and hopefully it doesn’t get spoiled!).
"She has telekinesis, she can move things, and she can get inside your head so all your worst doubt and fears come to the fore,” writer/director Joss Whedon explains. Consider our interest piqued.
Avengers: Age of Ultron hits theaters on May 1.
