Why does Wanda speak with an American accent?

Why does Wanda speak with an American accent?

There are references to it – from both her brother Pietro and Agatha Harkness – but now Olsen has explained why her American twang had to stick. Speaking to IndieWire, Elizabeth pointed out that where Wanda was deep into the American sitcom universe, she wouldn’t have had her Sokovian accent.

Why does Wanda’s accent change so much?

While her accent disappeared completely in the fantasized American sitcom world seen in WandaVision, Olsen explained that the change is one of Wanda’s own making “because she’s trying to hold on to an American sitcom world and play the part the best she can.”

What is up with Wanda’s accent?

“Then, at what point does her Sokovian come back and we get to make a comment on it when it happens?” The accent is very much tied to Wanda’s efforts to escape reality, and as we can see from the times her old accent slips out, it’s not even completely conscious on her part. It’s all part of the hex.

When did Wanda get an American accent?

In her first proper appearance in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Olsen played the character with a thick accent inspired by Wanda’s fictional home of Sokovia. Yet in all of her subsequent appearances, and in WandaVision, Olsen speaks with an ordinary American accent. Olsen has now explained the switch was deliberate.