“Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” returns for season three on September 29. The cast hasn’t begun filming yet, but they’re excited for the new season. We got a chance to talk to all 10 cast members at Comic-Con, along with executive producer Jeph Loeb. The cast answered questions in pairs of two, which was fun. That way we got to see their interactions. They really seem to love working with one other. Ian De Caestecker (Leo Fitz) and Elizabeth Henstridge (Jemma Simmons) were adorable together. They seemed an awful lot like their characters. Clark Gregg (Phil Coulson) and Chloe Bennet (Skye/Daisy Johnson) were also a lot of fun. Every time the PR reps tried to wrap up Gregg, he’d say, “No, we need to answer a couple more questions.” It’s clear he loves the fans. And we must say, Ming-Na Wen (Melinda May) looks so young, we want her beauty secrets (and great genes)! Plus all of the men on the show left our hearts racing.
Before you check out our video interviews below, here is what executive producer Jeph Loeb told us about season three.
“The key for this year really rests on the word “Inhuman,” Loeb says. “For someone like Phil Coulson who has lost a hand and has alien DNA inside of him and came back from the dead, he’s starting to question his own humanity – literally, like, ‘Am I okay inside of me?’ Then you get someone like Ward who is now on a very dark road – even darker than before – and willing to do anything in order to get, as he refers to it, closure. So there’s a kind of inhuman quality to that.”
In addition, now that the Terrigen Mist is out in the ecosystem, anyone could wake up tomorrow and be completely different. “[That’s] something that’s extremely excited to us,” he says. “There are people out there who are suddenly waking up and they’re enhanced, they’re Inhuman, and they don’t know what to do about it. And S.H.I.E.L.D. needs to get there and help them with that decision.” But as we’ve seen in the past, S.H.I.E.L.D. making that decision may not always be best for an individual. On top of that, Skye/Daisy is an Inhuman among a team who has always been skeptical about their powers. That should create some interesting dynamics.
“If you’re on a team and now suddenly one of the team [members] is one of ‘them,’ then what does that mean? That internal conflict is something we’re going to play as well,” Loeb tells us excitedly. “What’s fantastic about it is, it rings true in the things that Marvel does best, which is [explore] how we feel about people who are different than us. And what could be more different than someone who can burst into flame or turn invisible or do all of these things? And do we like that or do we not like that? Are we afraid of that?”
A few season three details were also revealed in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. panel at Comic-Con: Skye-turned-Daisy’s code name will be Quake (a character from the comics), the group she heads will be called the Secret Warriors, and Marvel villain Lash will be joining the Inhumans. (In the comics he has powers of energy conversion, absorption and manipulation.)
Check out our cast interviews below.
