Marvel Studios Doesn’t Trust Elizabeth Olsen, Apparently

Elizabeth Olsen, star of the current Marvel hit film Doctor Strange within the Multiverse of Madness, has not seen the current Marvel hit film Doctor Strange within the Multiverse of Madness. It’s not that she doesn’t wish to see it—in spite of everything, she performed the Scarlet Witch in it—and it’s not she hasn’t had the chance to see it, as a result of Marvel despatched her a duplicate of the movie to look at at dwelling. But as an alternative of simply giving her a duplicate of the movie, they despatched one with a watermark on it so she couldn’t leak the film on-line.

If you don’t know what I imply, a watermark is normally placed on early screeners given to the press—usually with the supposed viewer’s identify or e-mail put prominently however semi-transparently over the film/present. They can’t be photoshopped away, in order that if the viewer desires to take screenshots or illegally add the video someplace, they’ll’t do it with out figuring out themselves as a leaker. Sometimes, studios additionally ship out an early model of the movie with the timecode on it, which counts the film’s operating time in actual time, normally used for manufacturing but additionally a transparent instance that if it surfaced on-line it could be a bootleg and never a official launch.

It’s annoying to have to look at a present or film together with your identify caught in the course of the display screen, however it’s par for the course for large studios as a result of they’re so afraid of spoilers getting out. And to be truthful, after they ship screeners out to press, the fabric is absolutely out of their management, so maybe a little bit of paranoia is justified. However, refusing to offer actors un-watermarked copies of the movies they starred in is bananas, however that’s what occurred to Olsen when she requested for a duplicate of Multiverse of Madness to look at at dwelling as she was sick in the course of the film’s premiere occasion. As Olsen associated on final evening’s episode of The Tonight Show:

“I’m not one of those [actors that doesn’t like to watch themselves act],” Olsen stated. “I’m one of those people who likes to study something so I can figure out how to make it better. But I had a cold when we had the premiere and I didn’t want to sit through it. And so I asked them to send a copy so I could watch it, and it had my name on it and it had the time that I was watching it, and I didn’t want to watch it like that … it’s just distracting.”

Fallon defined to Olsen that studios add watermarks to screeners to stop unlawful sharing on-line, to which the actor replied, “How do you even do that? Who do you even send it to? How do you even record it on a computer?”

Even if Olsen was bluffing and is secretly a torrenting grasp, it stands to cause that she’s skilled sufficient to not wreck her relationship with Marvel Studios by handing out a screener together with her identify on it. There’s the much more salient undeniable fact that Olsen starred within the rattling film and knew most, if not all, of every little thing that occurred in it; if she needed to spoil the movie she starred in, and would earn more money if individuals watched it in theaters as an alternative of a shitty model on their computer systems, she may have accomplished it at any time. Olsen may have pretended she’d made a Tom Holland-esque gaffe.

It’s all actually, actually dumb. If Marvel Studios doesn’t belief the individuals they rent to not illegally add screeners to the web, then they in all probability shouldn’t have been employed within the first place. It’s extremely insulting, particularly to somebody who had already starred in 5 Marvel motion pictures and her personal TV collection with out spoiling something in any respect.

[Via Variety]

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