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Elizabeth Olsen has insisted she is not involved in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars.The 36-year-old actress appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch from 2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron until Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in 2022, though has now stressed she will not be returning to the superhero franchise for the next two Avengers movies due to her busy schedule.When The Hollywood Reporter asked Olsen if shed be working on Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, she said: No, Im back [in the US].I just finished [Panic Carefully]. Im moving on to filming a pilot for FX [called Seven Sisters].Reflecting on her apparent exit from Marvel, Olsen, who can currently be seen in the indie sci-fi movie The Assessment, said she was glad to return to smaller films.She explained: You end up having fewer people on the crew, and because The Assessment also had a smaller cast, theres such a community that you build to intimately create these [smaller-scale movies].Youre also on set more. Youre physically having to do more pages every day, and the rhythm of how you shoot, no time is wasted. I cant stand wasted time on set. I have a lot of patience, generally speaking, but when there is time where nothing is happening, I really dont understand it ... Its not like that happens a lot, but it does happen sometimes when you have the funds to tinker slowly. So I love the energy of having to get through so much in a day.MarvelMarvelloading...READ MORE: Every MCU Movie, Ranked From Worst to BestThe Love and Death star added working in blockbuster franchises like the MCU takes up so much physical time and space in the world, and stressed it was "really important for [her] to make choices outside of Marvel that reflect [her] own taste.She said: Your taste does create the artist that you are, and that wasnt something I was thinking about when I first started working. I was just grateful to be a working actor. I wanted to stretch myself into different roles, and I wasnt really thinking about my taste.The Assessment, which was directed by Fleur Fortune, is set in a dystopian future where population control is strictly enforced, and follows a couple (Olsen and Himesh Patel) who undergo a tense week-long evaluation to gain permission to have a child.12 Pairs of Actors and Directors With Famous FeudsYou won't see these great actors and directors working together again.Gallery Credit: Emma Stefansky