When most people think of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, they automatically envision the adorable daughter, Michelle from the early 90s sitcom Full House. Or they think about the twins starring opposite each other in several cutesy movies like It Takes Two, Holiday in the Sun, and Passport to Paris. However, those child actresses are all grown up now, and their lives couldn’t be more different than before.
Truth be told, I thought the Underminer would have a bit more screentime/over all plot impact than he did. He only got what, 5 minutes? I was like, “Well that lasted long.” He didn’t even get “defeated” in any big, heroic way. Here's what happened! The sequel opens on shadowy agent Rick. The opening of Incredibles 2 is a full-scale battle between the family and The Underminer that goes below and through the massive. The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer is the video-game sequel to The Incredibles. John Ratzenberger reprises his role of The Underminer while the other characters from the film are voiced by different voice actors. Last Man Standing returned to the small screen tonight. While there was a sense of comfort being back with the Baxter family, the loss of a familiar face was definitely noticeable. After Last Man. Fire up your drills! Put on your hard hats. And fasten your seat belts because we are headed underground in search of information on the famous Incredibles villain: the Underminer. In the Incredibles 2, at the beginning of the film, the Incredibles get in trouble by trying to stop the Super villain Underminer. They fail to catch him, and he runs away free.
The Olsen twins may lead more private lives now, but they haven’t bid farewell to tabloids completely. Fans are obsessed with uncovering what they are like now in real life at the age of 32. The most shocking thing of all? How weird their lives turned out.
Who are the Olsen twins?
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsenwere born on June 13, 1986. The two girls look very similar, but they’retechnically fraternal twins, meaning they each developed from their own separatefertilized egg. The twins started acting when they were infants. Both Olsentwins shared the role of Michelle Tanner on FullHouse for the entire run of the series (it ended in 1995). When they were6, Mary-Kate and Ashley began cashing in on their success by producing multipleTV and film projects. Their jointly-owned company Dualstar made them millionsat a very young age.
TheOlsen twins started making direct to video movies catered to their pre-teenmarket such as To Grandmother’s House WeGo, Double, Double, Toil and Trouble,How the West Was Fun, and the musicalmystery called The Adventures ofMary-Kate and Ashley. Their fans couldn’t get enough – there was literallya Mary Kate and Ashley fan club with a magazine, collectible merchandise, andmore.
Mary-Kateand Ashley grew up
The Underminer is a minor character in The Incredibles, and returns in the beginning of Incredibles 2. The Underminer appears at the end of the movie, where he announces his 'war on peace and happiness!' The Parr family then put on their masks, ready for battle. This led to such a cliffhanger.
Themini moguls took control of their company Dualstar when they turned 18 in 2004.By 2007, they were both ranked among the world’s richest women in entertainmentwith a net worth of $100 million.
Thegirls are both active in the fashion world, but Mary-Kate is especiallyinfluential. Her unique sense of style, which many call the “homeless look,”includes comically oversized clothing, big sunglasses, boots, hats, and flowingskirts.
Regularsat all the major fashion shows, the Olsen twins also have several clothinglines, including a couture fashion label called The Row and a line for girlssize 4-14 at Walmart. They truly do it all.
Theyboth married much older men
Youmight spot an Olsen twin on the red carpet or around Hollywood, but one placeyou’re not likely to see Mary-Kate or Ashley is in front of the camera. They’remuch more focused on their commercial products than their acting careers thesedays.
Mary-Kate is married to 49-year-old French banker Olivier Sarkozy, the brother of the former French president Nicholas Sarkozy. She’s even a stepmom to his two kids. As she explained to The Edit, “I think we’re lucky [working hard] comes quite naturally for us. We don’t need so much time to sit and think and ponder. But then I have a husband, two step-kids and a life; I have to go home and cook dinner.”
“I ridehorses on the weekends. You find the thing that helps you relax and if youdon’t have it, you have to look for it. Or you get burned out and then you’renot productive,” Mary-Kate said.
Ashley also foundlove with an older man. She’s involved with 58-year-old financier and artcollector Richard Sachs and like her sister, finds it very difficult to turnoff her work ethic. “I’ve always been a worker. It has taken me a lot to figureout how to take a vacation,” she explained.
They don’tparticipate in social media
In today’ssocial media obsessed culture, it’s hard to imagine celebrities choosing not topost their antics all over Instagram and tweet their opinions every day. ButMary-Kate and Ashley have managed toavoid public scrutiny because they choose to stay away from social media,which automatically makes them less accessible than so many of their peers.
Ashley said:“We don’t dive into that world [of social media]; we don’t have Instagramor Facebook. So we’ve never been connected to our customers or our fans in thatway. We’ve stayed quite sheltered.”
Mary Kateand Ashley aren’t like everyone else – and that’s just how they like it.
The final moments of 2004's 'The Incredibles' were meant to be the fitting conclusion of Pixar's superhero tale, with the united superfamily suiting up together to battle the emerging, over-the-top villain Underminer.
But the end was only the beginning.
'That first ending was meant to show the family riding off into the sunset,' says Brad Bird, writer and director of both films. 'But I always felt if I did a sequel, what if I started with that moment? That would be cool.'
Fourteen years later, 'Incredibles 2' (in theaters Friday) picks up exactly where the original movie left off as Mr. Incredible/Bob Parr (voiced by Craig T. Nelson), Elastigirl/Helen Parr (Holly Hunter), Violet (Sarah Vowell) and Dash (Huck Milner) get to the first order of business — stopping the Underminer.
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The Parr family is still the same, but evolving
Bird thinks preserving the moment made perfect sense for both the Parrs and the story.
'People tend to be literal about sequels: 'It's 14 years later, they have to be 14 years older,' ' says Bird. 'But that concept is not as cool. That had to be the same.'
Their ages needed to track from the first movie to fit audience expectations of the characters.
'Men are expected to be strong, so (Mr. Incredible) has super-strength. Moms are pulled in 10 different directions, so (Elastigirl) is stretchy,' Bird says. 'Teenagers are insecure and defensive, so (Violet) has invisibility and force fields. Ten-year-olds want to push every button now, so (Dash) has super-speed. And babies (Jack-Jack) are unknowns.'
Spencer Fox, now 25, had aged out of voicing the preteen Dash and had to be 'swapped out' with Milner. The 10-year-old voice actor has the same energy 'but absolutely has his own take on it,' says Bird.
Jack-Jack, who secretly showed superpowers out of family view in the original, has had a major growth spurt in his faculties, much to the shock of his parents.
Violet's friend Tony plays a pivotal role
The family encounters the Underminer after leaving Dash's track meet. In 'Incredibles 2,' that encounter is shown from a new perspective: that of Violet's burgeoning love interest, Tony Rydinger.
'I didn't want to pick up where we left off in a predictable way, so I did it through Tony's eyes,' says Bird.
Tony and Violet had already agreed to go on their first date when he witnesses the family's hidden, shocking super-side.
Bringing Tony back for an extended role was tricky. He's voiced by Bird's son Michael, now 30. Michael successfully pitched his voice higher to find Tony's range ('He got there,' Bird says), and any vocal blemishes were fixed electronically.
Superheroes are still illegal
'The Incredibles' story hung on the premise that once-mighty, always honorable superheroes had gone underground after their work was outlawed as too destructive.
This forced Mr. Incredible to be a down-low superhero-for-hire while his wife stayed home.
In 'Incredibles 2,' it's Elastigirl who gets the assignment from philanthropist Winston Deavor (Bob Odenkirk) and his tech-genius sister, Evelyn (Catherine Keener), to fight crime with body cameras to help change public perception and reverse the anti-super laws. Mr. Incredible is tasked with minding the home.
While Elastigirl's heroics reflect the national mood, Bird insists he came up with the concept years ago.
'Truth is, I had the core idea of the role switch as we were promoting the first film,' says Bird.
The Underminer goes low, the Screenslaver follows
Underminer moves up from quick laugh in an exiting scene to a major 'Incredibles 2' villain, a boon for Pixar fixture John Ratzenberger. He bellows the immortal salvo to the trembling metropolis: 'I'm always beneath you, but nothing is beneath me!'
'John can really bring it,' says Bird.
But that story is overshadowed by the mysterious villain Screenslaver, whose potent mind-control methods even work on superheroes.
Their battle takes the best aspects of the original film and twists them.
'The gold place for a sequel is 'The Empire Strikes Back,' 'Godfather II'or 'Road Warrior,' where you take the concepts the world feels are familiar, but the world can't predict what’s going to happen next,' says Bird. 'Those are the films I want to emulate.'