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Elizabeth Olsen Shut Down Photographer's Negative Comment About Sisters Mary-Kate And Ashley

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Photo credit: Getty Images

Elizabeth Olsen's star shines seriously bright at the moment. She's even been nominated for her first 'Best Performance' Golden Globe after starring in limited series WandaVision.

The 32-year-old succeeds sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley on the big screen, who enjoyed early success on television as child stars, but later transitioned into fashion with luxury label The Row.

However, with her heightened fame, the youngest Olsen sister has had to put up with an increasing number of media storms, and the social media commentary that comes with the gossip.

Recently, a video clip, uploaded to Twitter by @itsjustanotherx, showing Olsen defending twins Mary-Kate and Ashley, has gone viral.

In the footage, a photographer is heard asking Olsen: 'How come you're so much nicer than your sisters?,' leading her to respond with: 'Because you guys have been bothering them their whole lives.'

The Twitter post was accompanied with a caption that reads: 'Elizabeth Olsen knows how to clear a b****.'

Since it was posted yesterday, it's received over 70,000 likes and 10,000 retweets.

Olsen has long acknowledged the downsides of fame that her sisters have experienced in the past.

Speaking to Nylon in 2011 about how the media was 'abusive' to her sisters, she said: 'I thought I really didn't want to be in the industry.'

Speaking of Mary-Kate, who checked into rehab while suffering from an eating disorder back in 2004, Olsen added: 'They turned 18 and what was going on in her life—I'm talking about Mary-Kate—was all over the news. They would follow us shopping and [Mary-Kate and Ashley] would almost get into car accidents because of the paparazzi, and I didn't want to be a part of it. I just thought, This is such bulls**t.'

Olsen, whose breakthrough role was in mystery thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene back in 2011, has previously opened up about following in her sisters' footsteps.

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Photo credit: Mike Marsland - Getty Images

Recalling her venture into acting during an interview with Glamour in April of last year, Olsen, who portrays Wanda Maximoff in the Avengers franchise, admitted thinking: 'I don't want to be associated with [Mary-Kate and Ashley], for some reason.'

She went on to explain her feelings further, saying: 'I guess I understood what nepotism was like inherently as a 10-year-old.

'I don't know if I knew the word, but there is some sort of association of not earning something that I think bothered me at a very young age.

'It had to do with my own insecurities, but I was 10. So I don't know how much I processed, but I did think, "I'm going to be Elizabeth Chase when I become an actress."'

Similarly, when speaking to Grazia, the Marvel star said: 'I've always wanted to do it alone.'

She did, however, show that she wasn't against the idea of seeking help from her sisters when it came to her career, as she made clear in her Nylon interview over a decade ago. 'I went through a phase when I first got into college where I was thinking if I don't get a manager or agent, I'll ask the girls [Mary-Kate and Ashley] to help me.

'I was OK with that idea, but I never needed it,' she told the publication.

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Photo credit: Clint Spaulding - Getty Images

Referring to advice she received from Mary-Kate and Ashley, she also said during an episode of Off Camera with Sam Jones: 'Something my sisters always say, which might have come from my father at one point... it's that "No" is a full sentence.'

'I really liked that, especially as a woman. You can just say, "No." And I just really like that in all aspects of life.'

And she even shared this advice with Spider-Man star Tom Holland, who recently praised the actor.

In January last year, Olsen even spoke dotingly of Mary-Kate and Ashley's fashion sense during SiriusXM's The Jess Cagle Show, saying: Everything my sisters have ever worn in my entire life I have wanted to wear still as an adult today. I want their coats. I want their shoes. I want their dresses. And that is something that I never grew out of.'

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