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Paste: Let’s touch on a couple of the storylines you mentioned. When we return for Season Three, how aware is Fitz of what may have happened to Simmons? Is there a guilt factor associated with things, from his perspective?
Bell: I don’t know that there’s so much guilt. I think there’s an unfortunate off-screen sound effect that might have given the idea that, “Oh, he clumsily did something,” rather than the fact that it happened. I don’t know that he knows or feels responsible, but he absolutely knows she’s gone. They would have had surveillance footage of the room, and, knowing Fitz, I would expect he’s doing nothing less than putting all of his resources into trying to get her —whatever that means. I think the big questions are, “Where is she? What happened?” Knowing Fitz and what he was about to say and feel, I would be surprised if he wasn’t doing everything he could to try and find her.
Paste: You mentioned Agent May, and last we saw she was off taking a vacation with her ex. After last season’s dramatic revelation about the experiences in Bahrain that she’d kept bottled up for years, is it possible that we could finally see a kinder, gentler more well-balanced, Melinda?
Bell: I think it’s fair to say that by telling the Bahrain story and revisiting that, we can finally put a lot of it down. I don’t know that she’s going to come back and be all sunshine and rainbows, because it’s Agent May. We like her being a person of few words, but I do think we’re bringing some different colors in, and depending on what happens with her and Andrew on their vacation between seasons, whatever she can come with in this season will be new and fresh, and a little different.
Paste: The last time we saw Grant Ward he was looking to bring some semblance of Hydra back together. The history of Hydra was that of a warped political activist group, but we know that Ward’s never really had a major political agenda. If anything, he just acts on his own need for closure, need for revenge—basically, his own selfish psychological neuroses. Do we expect that his version of Hydra could be more in his vision to serve his needs, or are we potentially going to see a shift in what he is looking to accomplish in life?
Bell: That’s a great question, and very insightful, because the Ward we know talks about this grand mission of closure and helping people on a certain level, but it always feels vindictive and vengeful no matter how many people he brings closure to. It kind of feels like he’s always got to find somebody else to blame for the next set of problems. I think we feel this great tension and great story in the very question you ask because Hydra was one thing, so is he trying to build a section of it in his own vision, and do those things clash, and is he forced to expand that vision into something more? Is he slapped down for what he’s trying to do? Do they merge? Those are all really great opportunities for storytelling with Grant Ward going into this season.
Bell: I don’t know that there’s so much guilt. I think there’s an unfortunate off-screen sound effect that might have given the idea that, “Oh, he clumsily did something,” rather than the fact that it happened. I don’t know that he knows or feels responsible, but he absolutely knows she’s gone. They would have had surveillance footage of the room, and, knowing Fitz, I would expect he’s doing nothing less than putting all of his resources into trying to get her —whatever that means. I think the big questions are, “Where is she? What happened?” Knowing Fitz and what he was about to say and feel, I would be surprised if he wasn’t doing everything he could to try and find her.
Paste: You mentioned Agent May, and last we saw she was off taking a vacation with her ex. After last season’s dramatic revelation about the experiences in Bahrain that she’d kept bottled up for years, is it possible that we could finally see a kinder, gentler more well-balanced, Melinda?
Bell: I think it’s fair to say that by telling the Bahrain story and revisiting that, we can finally put a lot of it down. I don’t know that she’s going to come back and be all sunshine and rainbows, because it’s Agent May. We like her being a person of few words, but I do think we’re bringing some different colors in, and depending on what happens with her and Andrew on their vacation between seasons, whatever she can come with in this season will be new and fresh, and a little different.
Paste: The last time we saw Grant Ward he was looking to bring some semblance of Hydra back together. The history of Hydra was that of a warped political activist group, but we know that Ward’s never really had a major political agenda. If anything, he just acts on his own need for closure, need for revenge—basically, his own selfish psychological neuroses. Do we expect that his version of Hydra could be more in his vision to serve his needs, or are we potentially going to see a shift in what he is looking to accomplish in life?
Bell: That’s a great question, and very insightful, because the Ward we know talks about this grand mission of closure and helping people on a certain level, but it always feels vindictive and vengeful no matter how many people he brings closure to. It kind of feels like he’s always got to find somebody else to blame for the next set of problems. I think we feel this great tension and great story in the very question you ask because Hydra was one thing, so is he trying to build a section of it in his own vision, and do those things clash, and is he forced to expand that vision into something more? Is he slapped down for what he’s trying to do? Do they merge? Those are all really great opportunities for storytelling with Grant Ward going into this season.
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