Elizabeth Olsen Advises Actors to Initially Only Take on One Marvel Project
During a recent interview with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, WandaVision star Elizabeth Olsen shared some advice for actors looking to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The actor advised only signing up for one Marvel Project at first, rather than signing up for multiple at the start. “That way you have more control,” Olsen explained. “Let’s say you’re like, ‘Oh my god, this was the most fun I’ve ever had and I love this character so much. I want to do it again.’ You now have more creative controls for the next one.” Olsen has starred as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch in several MCU projects, including two Captain America films, three Avengers movies, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and the Disney+ series WandaVision, for which she earned an Emmy nomination.
Elliot Page Releases First Chapter of Pageboy
Elliot Page’s highly-anticipated memoir Pageboy will be released on June 6. But ahead of its release, the actor is sharing the first chapter of the book exclusively with PEOPLE. “I didn’t think I could write a book,” Page told PEOPLE. “Books, particularly memoirs, have really shifted my life, offered me inspiration, comfort, been humbling, all of those things. And I think this period of not just hate, of course, but misinformation or just blatant lies about LGTBQ+ lives, about our healthcare, it felt like the right time. Trans and queer stories are so often picked apart, or worse, universalized. So the first chapter of Pageboy…I just sat down, and it came out and I just didn’t stop. I just kept writing.” Page will also be touring to promote the book, starting on June 6 in New York.
There Are More Bookstores in the U.S. This Year Than Last Year
Good news for book lovers in the U.S.: the American Booksellers Association announced that membership is at its highest level in 20 years. According to Hillel Italie at the Associated Press: “The ABA added 173 members last year, and now has 2,185 bookstore businesses and 2,599 locations. Three years after the pandemic shut down most of the physical bookstores in the U.S. and the independent community feared hundreds might close permanently, the ABA has nearly 300 more members (under stricter rules for membership) than it did in 2019, the last full year before the spread of COVID-19.” In interviews with new bookstore owners, Italie found that stores are opening not for the profits, but just for the general love of books and a desire to do something good for the community.
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