When your older siblings are Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (genuine child stars, successful fashion designers, and icons in general), and they offer you tips for navigating a career in the spotlight, it’s a cue to take notes. After all, the notoriously lonely twins have become adept at keeping their lives private, well, private, while maintaining a multi-million dollar empire since retiring from acting.
In fact, her younger sister Elizabeth Olsen still lives by a rule passed down to her before she became a household name.
This week, Mary-Kate and Ashley’s sister advice went viral, after a video of Elizabeth’s Off-Camera interview with Sam Jones from January resurfaced on TikTok. During the frank discussion, the actress shared a “mantra” that she learned from her sisters and that is “still true” in the way she carries herself professionally.
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“Something that my sisters always say, that it could have come from my father at some point, my father, I don’t know, is that ‘no’ is a complete sentence,” Elizabeth explained, adding: “And I like that a lot, especially as a woman. You can say ‘no’, and I like that very much in all aspects of life. “
The powerful phrase even caught the attention of GoT actress Sophie Turner, who reposted the clip of her on her Instagram Stories and wrote, “I love this,” according to Us Weekly.
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Last month, the WandaVision star acknowledged her privilege to share the same last name as Mary-Kate and Ashley during an interview with Grazia. “Nepotism is one thing and I am well aware of it,” he told the magazine, but added that he never intended to take advantage of his sisters’ fame to compose acting concerts. “I’ve always wanted to do it alone.”
