Elizabeth Olsen Takes a Lie Detector Test
Released on 05/13/2022
Nothing here hurts.
Okay.
And lean slightly forward.
I have low blood pressure.
Okay.
[Interviewer] Is your full name
Elizabeth Chase Olsen?
Yes.
[Interviewer] Are you an actor?
Yes.
[Interviewer] Are you about to take
a polygraph exam?
Yes.
[Interviewer] Are you worried about
failing this polygraph?
No.
Am I already lying?
[Interviewer] Do you lie pretty often?
No, I don't lie.
Lie.
I'm lying?
I just lied from saying I don't lie?
That's correct.
Oh, weird.
I really don't think I lie.
[Interviewer] We're going to start with
the category of your life.
Okay.
[Interviewer] You once said you were intimidated
by this person.
Oh, Danielle Haim. [laughing]
I'm so happy I didn't know these questions before.
Yes, I think I still am intimidated by that person.
[Interviewer] Describing her as
the coolest person in the world.
Yeah, especially when you're in high school
and she was like, always that cool.
[Interviewer] Do you still think
she's the coolest person in the world?
I think Danielle's up there.
She's, yeah.
She's a very talented person and has a very cool vibe.
I think if I wanted to be a rock star one day
I would wanna grow up to be like her.
[Interviewer] Danielle was recently in Licorice Pizza.
Yes.
[Interviewer] Do you think you're a better actor than her?
[laughing] Yeah.
Sorry.
Sorry, Danielle.
I hope she'd agree.
[Interviewer] Does that mean
you're the coolest person in the world now?
No, I'm very uncool.
[Interviewer] Did you see Licorice Pizza?
I did.
[Interviewer] And you didn't think she was very good?
No, I loved the film, and I thought she was great in it.
But she didn't have to do much.
She's lying about the film.
What do you mean?
[Judd] Lying.
About what, liking the film?
[Judd] That's correct.
Oh, I did like the film
Or about her acting.
Oh yeah, she was fine.
Fuck, man.
Sorry, Danielle.
You did great.
I don't know what's happening.
It's so uncomfortable right now.
[sighing]
[Interviewer] John Oliver claims your sisters,
Mary-Kate and Ashley, are just one person
moving incredibly fast.
[Elizabeth laughing]
Is he correct?
No.
[Interviewer] How can you prove that?
They're twins.
My mom gave birth to both of them, C-section style.
And there are lots of photos since forever
that proves there's two of them in these photographs.
And I think the photos would prove that.
When you, you know, capture a photo with babies
in different places and stuff.
[Interviewer] But you weren't there.
I was there sometimes.
Later, when I was born.
[Interviewer] What about Photoshop?
There's yeah, not then, really.
Not in the 80s.
[Interviewer] Have you ever used the term New York minute
when talking to them?
No.
[Interviewer] Even when you lived in New York?
Yep.
I don't think I've ever used that phrase, actually.
[Interviewer] What about, You got it, dude.
I say that a lot.
I like, You got it, dude.
[Interviewer] Do you do a thumbs up?
I do this, 'cause I'm cool.
And if I had to start teaching class on how to be cool,
I would tell people to do that.
That's where we would begin.
[Interviewer] Do they like it when you say that?
I don't know if I've said it to them, but I do say it.
[Interviewer] As a reference to Full House.
No, I just like say, I like the phrase.
And I also with the wink.
Yeah, sure.
[Interviewer] You once said you are a plant mom.
I don't think I've said that, but I love plants.
I don't know if I've referred to them as their mother.
Telling the truth.
Okay.
[Interviewer] Do you name your plants?
No.
I don't like naming inanimate objects
like cars and houses and plants.
I don't know.
I guess they're not inanimate objects,
they're growing living beings,
but no, I don't like naming them.
[Interviewer] Would we find any funny plants
in your California home?
Oh, like pot?
No, I wanna be a stoner.
I'm an aspiring stoner.
I'm trying.
I just started trying, actually.
It's something that I'm not very good at.
[Interviewer] Okay.
I just started trying it again
for the first time in like a decade.
So I'm a beginner.
It's legal in California.
[Interviewer] What would a beginner weed smoker do?
They take a hit, really small one.
Try not to cough.
They wait about 45 minutes.
They take another hit, and then it's bedtime.
[laughing] That's what I've done now,
three times in the last, like 10 years.
This is definitely the second thing I teach
in my cool person school.
[Interviewer] You said you love to cook
and have been hosting dinner parties since you were 17.
Yes.
[Interviewer] Do you think you're a better cook
than this person, Ina Garten?
No.
Ina, no.
She was one of my teachers.
I watched Food Network a lot growing up,
and I would think she would be one of my teachers.
She doesn't know that though.
[Interviewer] What about this person?
No, Giada, no.
Another one of my teachers. [laughing]
[Interviewer] Does she know she's one of your teachers?
Nope.
Nope.
I love the way she says, Parmesan reggiano.
[laughing] She really likes saying her Italian words
like an Italian.
[Interviewer] What would you cook for them
at a dinner party?
I like a kale Caesar salad, and I like,
like an anchovy dressing.
I'd make homemade ricotta.
I really like Jody Williams' cookbooks.
So there are a lot of recipes
that I've kind of stolen from her.
It's like a sundried tomato toast thing.
I like lots of snackable things.
Maybe roasted chicken 'cause it's simple.
[Interviewer] Do you think they'd be impressed?
No. [laughing]
I think they'd be like, Thank you.
[Interviewer] You are self-proclaimed minimalist.
Huh, okay.
Yeah.
Sometimes these journalists,
I don't know what they put on there, but yes,
maybe I think I have not too many things.
[Interviewer] So is this a jacket a minimalist would wear?
I think so.
I don't have any jewelry on.
Not a lot of makeup.
I think so.
You know, and that always really one piece
was pretty easy to put on and take off.
There wasn't like, you know, any complicated taping or,
it's very easy to wear.
[Interviewer] Okay.
Does preferring simple fashion
make you a hard client for a stylist?
Sometimes.
Yeah, just because I'm not very enthusiastic about clothes.
I rather wear my own clothes like I am right now.
[Interviewer] Would you consider yourself
a tough client in general?
I don't think so, no.
I'm pretty agreeable, eventually.
I'm easy going.
I don't complain a lot.
[Interviewer] Judd?
She's telling the truth.
Cool.
So I've only lied once so far,
and it was about Danielle Haim's acting.
That's good.
[Interviewer] Moving on to your career.
Oh boy.
[Interviewer] You auditioned for Spy Kids,
but didn't get the role.
No.
[Interviewer] You were quoted saying,
I'm very happy I didn't get it
because I didn't wanna be a child actor.
Do you stand by that statement?
Yes.
[Interviewer] Then do you consider yourself a liar
since you were a child actor in How the West was Fun?
Well, that was kind of like,
I would be, like, babysat at the same time.
There's a lot of kids,
so it's more helpful for us to all be at the same place.
And so I would be around set
and so sometimes they would use me.
My character's name was Girl in Car in the credits.
[Interviewer] So you were forced?
No, I was happy to.
I was a ham.
I wanted attention.
[sighing]
[Interviewer] So Elizabeth,
was it really Agatha all along?
Yes.
It was really Agatha all along.
There's a song and everything.
[Interviewer] There's a lot of Wanda fan art.
Sure.
[Interviewer] Do you ever get sent any?
I don't know how I would, 'cause I'm not on social media,
but I have in the past been sent fan art.
And I've seen it at Comic Cons.
And I would really hope that would never be sent to my home,
'cause that would scare me.
[Interviewer] Have you ever gotten fan mail
from someone incarcerated?
I don't think so.
Maybe people that should be, but I don't know.
[Interviewer] You've said you're not in
the Avengers group text.
Yeah, I don't even know what that is.
I was on some sort of chain.
I forget, it was some app that's like a secret texting app
where people don't record, you know, in this space,
like what you say or something?
I don't know what it was called.
But we were on some sort of like fantasy football
and I deleted that app since.
And I don't know how, I'm not on any other
group texts with anyone, 'cause I'm so cool.
[Interviewer] No groups want you to join?
No.
They haven't invited me to play
another fantasy league since.
[Interviewer] I wonder why.
What would you need to do to get added back in?
Oh, I don't know.
I don't go out much. [laughing]
Maybe if I were more social, but I'm not.
[Interviewer] It's just an app.
You don't need to go anywhere.
Oh yes, sure, sure, sure, sure.
I don't have WhatsApp and I don't really know
how they're communicating with one another.
No, one's talked to me about it.
I don't think Benedict Cumberbatch is on the chat either.
[Interviewer] So there's not a secret Avengers group
with you and Benedict?
No.
We have like a one way interaction.
Or two way, I guess.
That would be two people in one interaction.
[Interviewer] Speaking of, do you think this man
looks like an excited otter?
[laughing] A bit, and I also, I love otters,
so I think he, I hope he would like that.
He looks very, it's a very funny facial expression.
[Interviewer] Moving on.
Do you think this man is the smartest man alive?
No. [laughing]
I don't know him, though.
But I would never assume that an actor
would be the smartest man alive.
[Interviewer] You don't know him at all?
I don't think so.
No, I've never met him.
[Interviewer] You were in the same movie.
I've never met him.
She's coming out truthful.
Never met him.
And he's already told me that I've lied a couple times.
I've never met that man.
I've met his wife.
[Interviewer] Okay then.
The final category is pop culture.
I know lots about pop culture.
[Interviewer] I'm sure you'll do fine.
Thank you.
[Interviewer] You've said you and this man,
Chris Evans, are very close friends.
We were.
We lived very close to each other,
and during that time we'd hang out a lot.
I still like him,
but I don't, like, hang out with him anymore.
[Interviewer] You don't like hanging out with him anymore?
No, I just like, no I don't,
it's not that I don't like hanging out with him anymore.
I was doing it in the more LA way.
I don't, like, still hang out with him.
I was doing it more as a Valley kid.
But yeah, he has a great laugh,
so it makes you feel better about yourself
when you tell a joke
[Interviewer] Would you say you were BFFs?
Never, no.
But we were friends.
I mean, we're friends. [laughing]
I dunno why I'm acting like he's dead.
We're friends, but like we just don't hang out anymore.
[Interviewer] Did you stop hanging out with him
because he tap dances?
No, that's one of the things I like about him.
[Interviewer] Did he show you?
Oh, I've seen him tap dance.
Yeah, he taps a lot on set.
Like wait around and just kind of start like
tapping his feet when we're in between setups and stuff.
[Interviewer] Is he your favorite Chris?
I don't know who my favorite Chris is.
That's inconclusive.
[Interviewer] What about this Chris?
Chris Pratt?
[Interviewer] Yeah, he's nice too.
I mean, that's why I think I feel inconclusive about it.
They've all got different things to offer.
They're all, you know, nice people to be around.
None of them are divas,
and that's how I feel about the Chris's.
I think I like Chris's in general.
[Interviewer] On an episode of Jimmy Kimmel,
celebrities read mean tweets.
Someone commented that you have weird fucking thumbs.
Thumbs, yes, I remember that.
[Interviewer] Do you think you have weird thumbs?
I do have weird thumbs.
[Interviewer] Can you show us?
Yes.
They don't really oppose much.
[Judd gasping]
What?
[Judd] Okay, okay, okay.
You didn't like it either?
No, no, no.
[laughing] I can't open champagne, you know,
in the celebratory style.
I have to just kind of yank it off with my fist.
[Interviewer] Do you do that a lot?
Open champagne?
I'd like to do it more, but I have done.
My brother told me that if I kept doing it,
my thumb would fall off.
'Cause he is my brother.
I would tell friends when they wanted to see it
that I couldn't do it.
[Interviewer] Because you were scared.
Because I was scared that it would fall off.
[Interviewer] You deleted all forms
of social media in 2020.
Do you feel disconnected from the rest of the world?
No.
[Interviewer] So you don't have
a secret Instagram account?
No.
I will go onto, like, my friend's Instagram accounts
and I get logged off after like,
it won't let me for the rest of the day
after like three photos I look at.
And then Instagram tells me I can't look at it anymore.
And then I wait for 24 more hours.
And sometimes it, I don't actually know the timing,
but I get logged off if I try and browse.
[Interviewer] What about a secret TikTok?
No, I've never seen the app.
I've seen videos off of it from friends,
but I've never seen the app.
[Interviewer] Do you like the TikTok dances?
There is a Doctor Strange one
that makes me laugh every time I look at it.
And it's a guy who's pretending to be Doctor Strange
and he's really intense, and that gives me joy.
So do you know what a meme is?
Yes. Well...
I get it confused with the gifs.
They're, one's moving and one's words.
[Interviewer] Do people send you WandaVision memes?
I've gotten like a bunch of,
I think people have sent me stuff. [laughing]
Yeah, people have sent me stuff of Wanda.
I don't know what if it would be
a meme or gif or whatever, but.
[Interviewer] Your partner, Robbie,
was in a band called Milo Greene.
Correct.
[Interviewer] Are we allowed to call Robbie your husband?
Yes.
[Interviewer] So how often do you
listen to your husband's band?
I used to listen to them a lot.
I kind of listen to like one playlist for a couple years
and then I move on to a new playlist,
and he's not on the the new playlist
that I've been listening to on repeat
for the last two years.
It's only, like, 30 songs on there.
[laughing] And then I'll, like, play Rosalia and stuff.
That's the most pop culture I get.
[Interviewer] That's pretty pop culture.
Yeah, I love her.
If it's on SNL, I'll learn something.
[Interviewer] So you watch SNL.
I do.
[Interviewer] Would you host SNL?
I would love to.
I used to be too scared to.
Now I'm scared to, but I would like to try.
[Interviewer] What scares you?
All of it.
I think it's an intimidating thing to do, that I've aged,
and I think I'm getting more confident.
I'm not a liar.
Final question.
At any point, did you lie during this interview
and we didn't catch you?
No.
But I also feel like we were a bit harsh on the second lie.
Judd, she's lying.
Take her to jail.
That's all we need.
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