Toronto 2011: Elizabeth Olsen, Mary-Kate and Ashley's Youthful Sister, On Journey to Oscar Contention (Video)

Elizabeth Olsen -- or "Lizzie," since the 22-year-old introduces herself in my opinion before our interview in Toronto on Saturday -- seems just like a star. It's not just metaphorically, because she's very beautiful, but literally, too, because she greatly resembles her older twin brothers and sisters, Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen. Mary-Kate and Ashley are actually legendary for that better part of the last quarter-century Lizzie, meanwhile, has handled to retain her anonymity and attend summer season camps, visit college, and live a somewhat normal existence. For better or worse, though, due to slightly movie referred to as Martha Marcy May Marlene, Lizzie's existence will change. Lizzie won the starring role in Sean Durkin's low-budget indie thriller a year ago. It absolutely was just the second film she'd ever done (another, Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding, may also be playing in the Toronto Worldwide Film Festival), but she did an admirable job within it playing a lady who's attracted into after which it is out in the cult. It opened up to great acclaim within the Sundance Film Festival within the month of the month of january. Fox Searchlight, which bought Martha at Sundance, will release the film on October 21, and expects to help keep its star inside the public eye whenever you can inside the future and many days. Their hope is always that, good strong critical a reaction to the film, the exposure might help Lizzie become one of the youngest best actress Oscar nominees ever. Throughout the time of my 16-minute conversation with Lizzie -- which you'll want to see within the whole by striking it near the top of this publish -- I used to be greatly impressed with how composed, articulate, and completely enjoyable she's. They all are qualities that can help her a lot more than the extended, hard slog that's an honours season campaign. Among the subjects that individuals spoken about: -- Exactly what it was like maturing inside the Olsen family (aside from her brothers and sisters, her earliest brother is certainly an ambitious film author her mother will be a professional ballet dancer and her father who's a higher amateur golfer). -- What interested her just like a kid ("I have, like, this masculine aesthetic... once i reaches secondary school, I preferred to determine Bukowski, and Palahniuk, and males who... discuss sex addicts and alcoholics"). -- How she got the part in Martha (she'd only been reading through through scripts for six or seven several days when she received "the film while using M's" and was right after that commuting involving the upstate New You'll be able to groups of Peace and Martha). -- What she discovered on her behalf performance (like the true story from the girl that Durkin knows who experienced similar to what Olsen's character encounters). -- The chronological strategies by which Martha -- which jumps from the farm together with a lake house -- was shot. -- Her nude moments in Martha ("If the's necessary, it's necessary"). -- Oscar buzz ("It's crazy!"). -- And her family's reply to the film ("They haven't seen it... none of my family members has seen it. My dad's gonna notice with me at night tomorrow [Sunday], after which it everyone else throughout my household is gonna notice within the premiere"). Toronto Worldwide Film Festival Ashley Olsen Mary-Kate Olsen Elizabeth Olsen