Elizabeth Olsen, sister of the Olsen twins: This year’s Sundance ‘It’ girl?
Every year, the Sundance Film Festival seems to exhume an "It" girl: She's the one with a troop of films premiering who transforms overnight from an unrecognized to an up-and-comer. A join of years ago, that mistress was Carey Mulligan, then a little-known British actress whose spin in the indie blur "An Education" went on to merit her an Oscar nomination.p This winter? Everyone in Park City seems to be buzzing about Elizabeth Olsen, the 21-year-old younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley whose only former skin credits comprise appearing alongside the twins in some of their children's films back in the 1990s. It appears, however, that she's deliberate acting seriously, having attended both New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School.
Olsen -- who goes by Lizzie -- appears in two films at this year's festival. The first, a terror layer called "Silent House," played to a damned dwelling-place of crowd and earnestness folks after midnight on split night. In the movie, the actress plays a babies helpmeet fixing up her family's shabby residency with her dad and uncle -- before long, she starts hearing noises and light of visions. Suffice it to say, things get bad. Olsen's other movie, "Martha Marcy May Marlene" (say that twice), premiered Friday at the Eccles Theater and stars Olsen as a betrothed who escapes from a cult and finds trick with her sister and brother-in-law at their yuppie lake house.
On Friday, Olsen shuffled between screenings of both films ("Silent House" was shown again later after its midnight debut), and was asked by audience members how her Sundance indoctrination was going. "I'm as a matter of fact excited, and I ambition the two movies sponsor each other," she said, beaming. More daunting than your humanity acting debut? Keeping up the hysteria required to at throughout an continuous haze go for "Silent House," she said. "It was so exhausting," she admitted. "I got amoral migraines from crying too much, and sinus infections from all the snot.
" --Amy Kaufman Photo: Elizabeth Olsen attends the premiere of "Martha Marcy May Marlene" on Jan. 21. Credit: Jemal Countess / Getty Images.
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