Actress Elizabeth Olsen says she had imposter syndrome about becoming a full-fledged performer.
Years before she graced television and theater screens, the Eternity star felt unconfident about revealing that she wanted to become an actress.
Olsen recounted her former insecurity on the Tuesday (Nov. 25) episode of webseries Mythical Kitchen, telling host Josh Scherer around the 25-minute mark below that she wanted to act in classic films like Grease and Gypsy.
"I just loved [acting] so much, and it wasn't really until I got to junior high I was insecure about wanting to do it so badly that I pretended I was going to do something in accounting or banking or something, because I loved math," Olsen said.
Olsen added that having a dream of being in Hollywood was "why people come to L.A.," which was different for her as a Los Angeles native.
"It felt foolish for me to want something that people came to the city for. I was like, 'Well, I know better, and most people don't become actors,'" Olsen continued.
By high school, Olsen dropped out of volleyball to star in a stage play, which she recounted as being life-changing.
"And then I was just like, 'This is all I ever want to do.' I don't know why I pretended I didn't," Olsen said, adding that she wrote a letter to a teacher about her desire to act being "reawoken."
"That was always my passion since I had a memory. There's nothing that I wanted to do more before that besides maybe be a princess," Olsen said.
Olsen, who's also the younger sister of fashion designers and former actresses Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, expressed a disinterest in fame.
"My way around it was studying theater and thinking I was going to go into theater and not film and TV," Olsen told Scherer.
