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Hey everyone, just a heads up. There's a little bit of spicy language in this episode.

What is something you still feel you need to prove to the people you mean?

I think my taste.

I think I haven't always successfully made choices in my work that are aligned with my personal taste. And that is something I'm,

I feel like I'm still trying to prove. I'm Rachel Martin, and this is Wildcard. The game where

cards control the conversation. Each week, my guest answers questions about their life.

Questions pulled from a deck of cards.

They're allowed to skip one question and to flip one question back on me.

My guest this week is Elizabeth Olson.

There are definitely things that I could have learned from, but I needed to make the mistakes myself.

Being a supervillain is exhausting.

I mean, I only imagine that's the case.

You spend a lot of energy thinking about how to mess with your enemies,

using your actual superpowers as totally draining,

and once you're in that supervillain box,

it can be hard to escape unless you're Elizabeth Olson.

She first showed up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe about a decade ago as Wanda Maximoff,

and by 2021, she was flying around wreaking havoc as the Scarlet Witch in Wanda Vision.

And while Olson hasn't closed the door on that character, we have definitely seen her

talent unfold

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