Elizabeth Olsen: Hey, Steve.

EO: I’m good, how are you doing? It's been a while since we've talked to each other.

EO: Oh, it was amazing. That was a total blast.

EO: You know what? A lot has changed, yeah. Very quickly.

EO: It was the screenplay, but it happened in the same day, I just read the screenplay first, and then I saw the movie, and it was like a double whammy. I liked that my first experience was the screenplay, because all the shock and excitement came from our story not the other. And then I saw the Korean version, it’s almost the perfect film. It’s brilliant. And it’s awful, but it’s brilliant, but there’s no way you can remake it exactly and tell the proper story. If you’re going to do it, you've got to make it your own version. And it’s a cool story to tell.

EO: For me right now, if there’s a really great story as a whole that I want to be a part of, and the character that I want to play isn't like the most groundbreaking of characters, I’m okay with that because I’m okay with being a tool to help tell the story. But in the Korean version, she’s almost too much like a pawn and isn’t given enough of her own life. She was hypnotized, and it’s so convenient in a way that she falls for him, and we had to figure out--Mark [Protosevich, writer], Spike, Nathan [Kahane], the producer--a way to make her have a psychologically damaged background that would lead her to becoming a social worker. To be someone who is herself as someone still not fully healed, trying to figure out what is it that she sees in this man, and why is it at this a point in her life that she needs as much from him as he does from her. That was the goal, to tell the story of the film but also make sure that she has a life. That it’s not like in a few days, this girl that puts out for this guy. You want it to be something more.

EO: No, it was an offer. When I read it I met up with the producer, I was attached but not officially signed on; he didn’t sign a paper yet. And then I met with Spike, and lucky enough, he wanted to work with me. And he and Josh were the ones that were making all the judgements together. I had to meet Josh also so he could judge me and say whether or not he wanted to work with me.

EO: [laughs] Yeah, I know and he’s like one of my buddies. He’s like a big brother to me.

EO: Well, the first thing you think of is “Oh he’s not going to like me. He's not going to think I’m funny. I should have probably work on jokes ahead of time.” And then I just met up with him and had a really awesome time. He is so direct, and I’m very direct, and it works well when those things happen. He was so collaborative; he’d ask me my opinion on everything, even things that didn’t have to do with my character. He’s an amazing collaborator.

EO: I hadn’t, and it was an amazing two weeks. Actually, we had a little bit of that for GODZILLA. Gareth, Aaron [Taylor-Johnson, who plays Olsen's husband] and I, just for dialogue reasons, character development, and things like that, we did do that for GODZILLA. But before OLDBOY, I hadn’t had that experience where someone was like, “Hey, let's do this movie, but you're allowed to re-write anything that you don't feel comfortable with. What do you think isn’t working, and let’s figure out how to make it work. What lines do you like saying, what lines do you not like saying?" It was amazing.

EO: It’s ridiculous!

EO: Absolutely will not. [laughs]

EO: I do that once. It’s Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s film, but the ensemble, we all are somehow connected to Aaron’s character. He’s the root, and I play his wife and I'm the person who holds down the San Francisco prospective of it all. I’m a nurse and I work trying take care of this chaos. GODZILLA is just so deserving of a good American remake, and I really hope we did it and I really feel like we did.

Elizabeth Olsen: No, not at all. I just never believe it when they say it's going to chance. My life changed after MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE, and people were like, "It's going to change," and yeah, it did. But I've got the same friends; I've got the same family. I have more options with work, so I get to be pickier. Those changes are pretty good. I still don't foresee myself as someone people are going to stalk and follow around. I don't see that in my cards.

EO: Yeah, but I don't mind the whole work-getting-better aspect of it.

EO: I do have a sense. But I have logic and mind enough not to share it. [Laughs] I know what the costume is going to be more or less like. I'm just excited that she's never been portrayed in film or on television before.

EO: Yeah, I’m so excited.

EO: I was thinking about it. I just did a play [an Off-Broadway version of "Romeo and Juliet" for director Tea Alagić] and I finished it yesterday, and I’m tired. I haven’t had two days off in a row since August, and that whole eight-show-a-week thing is very tiring. But I don’t think there is anything, and if there was I wouldn’t be doing it, but there isn’t anything.

EO: I’m trying to get a tiny one in during AVENGERS; that's what I’m trying to do right now if the timing makes sense. It’s something I’m really trying hard to work on and would rather not talk about it, so I don’t jinx it, but yeah.

EO: I would just assume it should be a beginning-of-summer film. That’s the feel of the film. That movie is really for girls age 14-18 and their moms. It’s a great film, and I want my little sister to see it, and I think her and her friends are going to love it. It’s very specific, and I think the problem is sometimes you make movies like that that are specific, and then you take them to certain festivals and people are like, "Oh my god. In comparison to FRUITVALE STATION…" And you’re like, "Well I’m not making FRUITVALE." We’re making something else that’s a lot more light hearted than FRUITVALE. So it’s a little odd when those things happen, but it’s a sweet film about friendship for younger girls.

EO: [Laughs] If you want to see it, see it, but I don’t know if it’s going to be your cup of tea.

EO: In the spring.

EO: Absolutely. It's so much fun.

EO: Everything. I never read these comics before, not Scarlet Witch. She's nuts, she's crazy. She has more things wrong with her than any character I've ever played. She can tell you where an object has been, she can tell you what your future is, she can connect with the dead and people from other universes, and she's the only person in this universe who's capable of doing that. She's unbelievable; it's so cool. I grew up loving STAR WARS and LORD OF THE RINGS, and anything that has this other type of world or universe to it is so fun.

EO: No, that was my brother's thing. I think because it was so much his thing, it wasn't my thing. He's collected comic books every week of his life since he was seven; he's almost 30 now.

EO: Yes. I don't think I've told him he's allowed to talk about this now.