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Elizabeth Olsen has revealed how her nightmares have encouraged her to leave the United States and move to the United Kingdom.
In an interview with the guardian Posted on September 29, the 35-year-old actor opened up about living in a rural Northern California town with his husband, Robbie Arnett. Speaking to the media, she confessed that she is worried about the amount of gun violence in the United States, which led her to have terrifying dreams.
“I have died in many dreams. They shot me in the head and killed me,” Olsen said. “And it's like now I have cold blood running through my head and everything is darkness.”
She admitted that she is considering moving to the UK, as she and her husband enjoyed living in London while filming their 2022 Marvel movie. Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness. The actress also recalled how happy she felt during a recent visit to the city.
“Between [to central London] last night,” he said. “And this morning, the moment I went out and had coffee, I calmed down.”
Although he acknowledged that there will be security concerns everywhere he goes, he emphasized that he feels at peace in London.
“We are always concerned about random acts of violence in the United States without even prosecuting them,” he said. WandaVision said the star. “And I know that there is violence everywhere, that not everywhere is perfect, and there are certainly things to be angry and scared about, but – here's that word again – 'here I just feel a calm.'”
Gun violence was the leading cause of death among children and teens in the United States for the third year in a row, according to a Johns Hopkins University analysis released earlier this month. Data from 2022 released by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions found that guns killed 2,526 children between the ages of one and 17, an average of seven young people killed per day. The overall firearms rate among youth doubled between 2013 and 2022.
Olsen previously spoke about how she is considering moving to the UK. During an appearance in Table manners In a 2021 podcast, she acknowledged that she and her partner were having a “great time” in London, as their house overlooked the Thames.
“We are living this British dream, in this house, in Richmond, by the water. “We want to figure out how to stay here, so now we want to write a romantic comedy… because we don't want to leave,” he said. “I have such an affinity for England that last year we were researching how we could live here legally.”
In another part of his interview with the guardianOlsen spoke candidly about her mental health and the panic attacks she experienced in her twenties.
“I've gone through phases,” he said of using medication to manage his anxiety. “Finding out what works for me or what works enough. No one was talking about panic attacks in the mid-2000s. I thought it meant just writing a list, checking things off, and getting over it. “I didn’t realize it was something you had no control over, but I had to figure out how to have some control.”
He later confessed that there were times when he had panic attacks “almost every hour” every day.
“It was literally every time there was a change in something: from hot to cold, from hunger to fullness. I thought, 'Oh, is that okay?' And then it snowballed and became a habit,” he continued.
He his three daughters The star shared that to “interrupt the thought process” during her anxiety, she would start naming things she saw in her head. As a result, he has not had a panic attack since.
“You learn very quickly who you're comfortable with and who you're not comfortable with,” Olsen added.
