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Agents of South.H.I.E.L.D. star Clark Gregg explains his 'ruthless' new character Sarge
Gregg and Ming-Na Wen say the mysterious doppelgänger is 'the anti-Coulson'
Alert: This article contains spoilers from the flavour 6 premiere of Marvel'south Agents of S.H.I.Due east.L.D. Read at your own risk!
Phil Coulson is dead. Long live Sarge?
In the season 6 premiere of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., viewers were introduced to Clark Gregg's mysterious new character, who fabricated his grand archway in a huge truck that barreled into our world via a breach in space and fourth dimension that destroyed an entire museum.
Aye, Sarge looks exactly like our dearly departed Coulson, except with more stubble and a fizz cutting, simply the similarities announced to finish there. Not but does Sarge have a cold, murderous vibe to him that Coulson didn't, but he likewise doesn't know what S.H.I.E.L.D. is and shot 1 of the agents before driving off with the rest of his team, who spent the episode causing all kinds of problem Coulson wouldn't approve of. (Read our full episode recap and postmortem with the showrunners.)
Although we know this isn't Coulson, the premiere doesn't tell us who Sarge is, what he wants, or where he came from. Luckily, EW visited the set of the ABC drama in September and spoke to Gregg and costar Ming-Na Wen (who plays Coulson's dear Melinda May) about Sarge's inflow, May's reaction to Coulson's doppelgänger, and more than.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So you lot're back after dying in the finale…
MING-NA WEN: Again…
CLARK GREGG: It was enough that I came back after dying the first time. Plain, I'm hard to kill.
Are you used to it by now?
GREGG: I'm the Curiosity cockroach.
WEN: No, no, yous're the true cat. You have nine lives.
GREGG: Oh, I like that better.
And so how are you back, and is Coulson back?
GREGG: Well, Coulson is not back, equally far as we tin can tell. And I take to authorize this by saying we're shooting episode 5 correct at present, and they're very comfortable that there [are] withal a lot questions, so we merely know a niggling bit. We're putting this mystery together ourselves. Simply the story seems to be that Phil Coulson himself expired magnificently in Tahiti.
WEN: We're not existence coy here. They're really not telling usa anything.
GREGG: No, simply I'chiliad led to believe that the character I spent 10 years playing, that guy died.
WEN: And I pass up to believe information technology. May believes it.
GREGG: And then very rapidly in the intro of season half-dozen, some mysterious humanoid creatures get-go showing up from God knows where. And one of them is a dead ringer for Phil Coulson. Simply other than these spectacular features, that seems to be where the similarity ends. He seems to exist office of a very ruthless non-Earth-based beings, who are violent sh— up.
How does he differ from Coulson?
GREGG: That'south function of the mystery, simply he seems to be on a mission. It's not clear what's involved, just they're hunting something, and they don't care who or what they accept to impale to detect any they're hunting. He's the anti-Coulson in that manner. Phil Coulson was never comfy much with collateral [damage]. This guy, as the kids say, he has no sh—s to give.
As y'all mentioned, you played Coulson for 10 years. Was it weird saying goodbye to him?
GREGG: Information technology's weird to say goodbye to him every time. So much of our feel on this prove is fine art and life fusing. I've been playing this guy, and in different iterations, this somewhat peripheral player in the early phase of the Marvel movies, but geeking out at who he was getting to interact with, which was very much my experience as well on those films. Then he was dead, and that was very pitiful. And then all of a sudden he was back with a new squad of strangers under tremendous pressure level, which is very much was our experience of season i, 2, 3, 4, and v. And and then nosotros came to a moment when nosotros didn't know if the show was going to… nosotros had no news of a pickup. So we shot the finale of season 5, titled "The Cease," equally if that was the finish of the show. And his tab had come due in terms of how he'd been brought back from Tahiti, and he had burned through any life-rejuvenating serum had saved him by becoming the Ghost Rider to save his friends at the end of season 4, and it looked fatal.
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- The season 5 finale functioned every bit both a season and series finale. Did you guys experience a sense of closure on the story up to that betoken?
- WEN: Well, equally Clark says, you piece of work on a graphic symbol for this many years and you build this incredible family, and y'all fall in dearest with your character. And then there was a sense of, "Okay, if this is truly the serial finale…" It'southward emotional, it'southward sad, and yous're saying farewell, not to just these fictional characters, just real people that yous've enjoyed working endless hours with. And so, I don't know if it was a closure, because nosotros didn't know…
- GREGG: It was weird when nosotros got the pickup [for flavor 6].
- WEN: We live very gypsy lives, and nosotros get used to information technology, only it's never easy. So there wasn't a true sense of closure because there was however that lingering, well, possibility that we would go into a season six.
- GREGG: I would say, though, that Coulson and May run a close 2nd to Fitz [Iain de Caestecker] and Simmons [Elizabeth Henstridge] in terms of how many obstacles had been thrown between them and how much dancing they had been doing around what's the correct moment to have a friendship to a dissimilar identify? And there was something really prissy nearly finally snapping through those walls and having it become a full-diddled romance fifty-fifty information technology was —
- WEN: Very quick, on the beach scene.
Ming-Na, how is May handling Coulson'south doppelgänger?
WEN: When she sees this face —
GREGG: Daughter, I can't even imagine [Laughs]
WEN: [Laughs] — and she'southward already said goodbye to the beloved of her life and had this wonderful final moment in Tahiti (that'south what I'one thousand imagining and the writers keep telling u.s.a.), she'southward pissed. Absolutely pissed. Like, "I've gone through the grieving! It's a yr afterward! What the f—? You evidence up to tear upwards my center again? No way, I'thousand going to kill it." I desire to beat it up! "No LMDs! No aliens! No imposters!" She doesn't believe that this is happening.
GREGG: Information technology's definitely interfering with your grieving process.
WEN: Absolutely. It's been fun considering she gets to be a little bit more emotional.
With each season, the show has leveled up: from Inhumans, to magic and LMDs in season four, to space in flavor 5. What's the side by side borderland for the bear witness this season?
GREGG: Every time I think I know when I'm interviewed during episode 5 or vii or whatever we're doing it for, the writers oasis't told me what the concluding [volition exist]. So I don't even know what the second half of this is. What I dig about what we're doing so far is other than Sarge and his squad of people wreaking havoc for a reason we don't know yet, it's non like, "Oh, it's Inhumans. Oh, it's the Kree. Oh, it's infinite." It'southward unlike. It's hard to say. They're after something more subtle in the sci-fi realm.
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Source: https://ew.com/tv/2019/05/10/agents-of-shield-season-6-premiere-sarge-clark-gregg-ming-na-wen/