You Will Not Believe Who Elizabeth Olsen’s Childhood Idol Was

Elizabeth grew up in the era when most kids were obsessed with boy bands, but her childhood idol came from way before that. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
If you ask most millennial actors who are what it
was that inspired them to follow a career into TV
and filmmaking, you probably named a nineties TV show, movie,
or star, but not Elizabeth Olson.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Right.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
For her, it was one of the biggest icons from
Hollywood's Golden Age. She tells RDY grown up, I was
so in love with Frank Sinatra. I wanted to play
opposite Frank my whole life. That's what really got me
to learn how to sing and dance and perform because
I wanted to be in a musical with him as
a little girl so badly. That was all my make believe.
It was me dreaming of working with him. The words
of Elizabeth Olson, Love and Death. She's in it on
HBO Max.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
That's Direct from Hollywood.