WandaVision's Paul Bettany (Vision) eloquently explains the beauty behind the scene when Wanda creates Westview. The mystery of Westview was the biggest question that sparked a thousand fan theories. Westview even had the characters in-universe trying to understand who created a "sitcom starring two Avengers" and why. Episode 8, "Previously On," finally revealed that Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) accidentally created the sitcom fantasy version of Westview purely out of her grief for Vision, culminating in an incredibly emotional scene where Wanda's chaos magic overtook the town. The trigger for Wanda's Westview creation was her love and grief for Vision.
Having been forced to kill Vision herself in Avengers: Infinity War, Wanda was traumatized yet again watching Thanos (Josh Brolin) rewind time in order to kill Vision himself a second time. WandaVision revealed that Vision had purchased a deed for a plot of land in Westview, so he and Wanda could build a home, "To grow old in." After Wanda was forced to watch Vision being disassembled under the watch of S.W.O.R.D's acting director, Tyler Hayward (Josh Stamberg), she ventures to Westview and has a complete breakdown. As a result of her overwhelming grief and her powerful chaos magic, Wanda ends up creating a world that she has control over, a world where Vision is alive.
Paul Bettany rewatched some pivotal WandaVision scenes in a fun video from British GQ. After rewatching the scene where Wanda creates Westview and sitcom Vision, the actor eloquently explained what makes the moment so tragically beautiful. Read what Bettany had to say about the episode 8 moment below:
"[Wanda’s] version of Vision is so elegantly rendered, I think it’s really special. Such a lovely idea, because she can’t solve the real issue, she creates a world in which she can have these little puzzles to deal with, that can be neatly tied up, unlike life."
Bettany summed up Wanda's main motivation through most of WandaVision perfectly. In order for Wanda to cope with everything that was out of her control in reality, she retreated to a world where everything would be righted by the end of the episode. Wanda's desire to escape and ignore the fact that Vision was truly dead was perfectly understandable. Although the series ultimately revealed that Wanda was, in fact, the incredibly powerful Scarlet Witch, her grief and pain humanized Wanda in a way that made her a far more interesting and complex character overall.
WandaVision's deep-dive into the stages of grief was an incredible foray from typical MCU fare. It's not surprising that WandaVision has garnered 23 Emmy nominations. The love between Wanda and Vision was powerful, as well as Wanda accepting her destiny as the Scarlet Witch and letting go of what was lost. It'll be interesting to see where the Scarlet Witch's story goes next in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Source: British GQ
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