Even More Info on Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch in The Avengers 2 Age of Ultron

Entertainment Weekly has provided fans with some great in-depth coverage of The Avengers: Age of Ultron in its Comic-Con preview issue this week, and now we have some more details about Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen).

Writer/director Joss Whedon discusses in an extended portion of the issue (via EW.com) how he wanted to vary the superpowers in the sequel. "With the [first] Avengers, everybody pretty much had the power of being able to punch somebody," he said. "And now we have a woman who can get inside your head and move objects, and a boy that can move faster than anything, and a robot [Ultron] who can self-replicate and is out of his mind. So all of sudden, it's a darker, weirder, tougher world that they're living in."

Taylor-Johnson offered a new perspective on the twins. "They're gypsies in a way," he said. "They're Romani. They're sort of like travellers. They're very yin-and-yang in that twin sense. In his power, he's physical and she's psychological. My character is very much on the frontline, but he can be quite emotional. You see this beautiful tenderness between them."

"When you look in the comic books, you see a lot of the time that [Wanda] always sort of mothering him," he said of the relationship between the two. "He's like the father figure and she's like the mother figure. Emotionally, she can stabilize him, and he protects her physically, vice-versa. So they have this beautiful connection and it's kind of them against the world." 

Olsen also offered her thoughts about her character. "The reason she's so special is because she has such a vast amount of knowledge that she's unable to learn how to control it. No one taught her how to control it properly. So it gets the best of her. It's not that she's mentally insane, it's just that she's just overly stimulated. And she can connect to this world and parallel worlds at the same time, and parallel times.

"In the comics, every time you see an image of them, they're always holding each other's hand and looking over each other's shoulder. They're always so close, it's almost uncomfortable. Aaron and I have been playing a little bit with those kinds of images just for ourselves." 

Whedon dove a bit deeper into the twins' motivations for their disdain for the Avengers. "I'm interested because there's familial issues with that kind of resentment. You can sort of go deeper and I can play with their relationships and I can play with attitudes. Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver hate them with a fiery hate..."

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