10 Movie Characters Who Actually Knew When To Quit
4. Olivia Wenscombe - The Prestige
One of the most prominent supporting characters in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige is Olivia Wenscombe (Scarlett Johansson), who starts out as Robert Angier's (Hugh Jackman) assistant but, while spying on his rival Alfred Borden (Christian Bale), falls in love with Borden and becomes his assistant instead.
But after Borden's wife Sarah (Rebecca Hall) commits suicide amid his schizophrenic personality traits - due to him pulling a double act with his twin brother - Olivia decides that she's had enough of Borden and Angier's increasingly costly, dangerous feud, and straight-up peaces out of the situation altogether.
At lunch with Borden, she brushes off his attempts to explain his paradoxical behaviour, tells him that Angier has been working on a nifty new magic trick, and then coolly suggests that the pair deserve each other through their single-minded desperation to outdo one another.
Given the grim ultimate outcome of Borden and Angier's feud, she was certainly smart to wash her hands of it before things got truly ugly.