Elizabeth Olsen found her dream eternity with husband Robbie Arnett.
“I didn’t know I’d even want to get married or have kids [before I met him],” Olsen, 36, said on the Thursday, December 4, episode of the “Dear Chelsea” podcast. “I was actually renovating a house when we first started dating. I realized six months in that we’ll probably move into this house together and wanted him to be a part of making choices, so it didn’t feel like my space [but rather] our space.”
She continued, “After living with each other for a very short period of time, [I realized] he’s truly the most comfortable person to be around and the greatest support in my life.”
Olsen and Arnett, 33, have been together since 2017, getting married three years later in 2020.
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“He’s so sweet and funny and clever and smart,” Olsen gushed to podcast host Chelsea Handler. “His goal every day is to make me laugh, which is also annoying when I’m mad at him. He does it very quickly and early in the morning. He’s great. He’s a sensitive, kind, very good at communication [type of man].”
Olsen further revealed how Arnett compared to her movie husbands in Eternity. (In the A24 film, Olsen’s Joan must decide which of her two late spouses, played by Miles Teller and Callum Turner, to spend her time with in the afterlife upon her death.)
“One of the reasons I loved Eternity [from] reading that script is because I really think of my husband as a Larry,” Olsen said, referring to Teller’s character. “My husband is incredibly neurotic, very uncomfortable all the time, always has something wrong with his anything, like his coccyx, his pinky [or another body part]. They’re always this 1 percent odd thing, and they have real diagnoses, but he then tells himself all the stories.”
While Olsen enjoys many of Arnett’s detailed stories, their proposal tale might just take the cake.
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“When we got engaged, we went to this place in Northern California and he was acting so annoyed there wasn’t a cheeseboard,” she recalled on Thursday. “He asked for a cheeseboard, and we got there and I was like, ‘You’ve never cared this much about a cheeseboard,’ and he was freaking out.”
According to Olsen, Arnett was also upset that he couldn’t light a fire at the venue.
“He was, like, ‘What kind of man doesn’t know how to start a fire?’ He was just so mean to himself,” Olsen said. “He was like, ‘It’s embarrassing if I had to ask someone to get a fire.’ Then, it was 30 minutes later [that] he proposed when we were outside, but he needed there to be a cheeseboard [and a] fire in order for it to feel romantic or something.”
Luckily for Arnett, Olsen didn’t believe the moment was any less romantic and she accepted his proposal.
“He tried to go down on one knee … but we were on this wood dock,” she added. “He goes down on his knee and he’s, like, ‘Ow, this really hurts’ and gets back up. It was just the two of us, [and] there’s not a single photo. It was just so lovely. I loved it so much just because it was him.”
