'Marvel's Agents of SHIELD' set for action-packed season 3 premiere
NEW YORK (WABC) -- "Marvel's Agents of SHIELD" is back for a third season, with a new team searching out Inhumans with super powers.
Any information about any Marvel project is on a "need to know" basis, and even the members of the cast don't know what's coming next from one week to the next.
Daisy Johnson, a.k.a. Skye (or Quake), played by Chloe Bennet, is just one of a team of agents with special abilities known to fans of the comics as "Secret Warriors."
"Well, you know the fun thing about our show is as the things evolve in the Marvel universe, it affects our show, said star Clark Gregg, who plays SHIELD director Phil Coulson. "Suddenly, we're a team with some powers."
In season 2, the boss lost his hand. In season 1, he came back from the dead.
"You know, I wish things that radical wouldn't come every season," he said.
But such drama keeps it interesting, and speaking of which, characters played by Ming-Na Wen and Blair Underwood are getting back together.
"If there's one love of each other's life, it's each other, so there's a bond and we've kind of established that," Underwood said. "We know that, and if you saw the season, you know that at the end of the season, Agent May is leaving to be with Andrew on some kind of vacation with each other to try and rekindle."
"Agents of SHIELD," like other shows on the ABC schedule, has a very diverse cast.
"The acceptance of it, where it's not the main storyline, I think that's a big difference in many ways than what
happened previously," Wen said. "Where it was sort of an issue. And for us, it's not."
Underwood has seen a change since he started out.
"(When) I was on 'L.A. Law,' just to have a relationship off screen was unusual," he said. "For a black man to
have a relationship, any relationship, to see a personal aide to that person, so we have come a long way in that respect."
Underwood and Wen have known each other since college, when both pursued drama at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburg, and they have stayed friends ever since. But they'd never worked together until "Agents of SHIELD."
"Marvel's Agents of SHIELD" returns for an action-packed third season on Tuesday 29 at 9 p.m.
Hear more of what Gregg and Bennet had to say ahead of the premiere:
