SHIELD AGENTS is a television series created by American director and producer Joseph Hill Joss Whedon. The basis for the creation served as a comic strip company Marvel. He talks about an invented organization that is fighting criminals.
The storyline of the series
After finishing the story shown in the Avengers movie, Agent Phil Colson decided to create an unusual group with which he would continue to fight the underworld. A freshly baked composition needs not only to face evil, but also to confront it. They have to do research work to cope with the growing influence of criminal gangs. In addition, the defenders have to adapt to each other and find common ground so that different characters do not interfere with their hard work.
"Agents of SHIELD": actors and roles of the first season
Project development began in the summer of 2012. It was the ABC channel that broadcast the series “SHIELD AGENTS”. Joss Whedon picked up the actors and the roles that they play in the project competently. Clark Gregg was invited to lead Agent Phil Coulson . It was he who played this image in the film Avengers. Clark was surprised at this invitation, because his main character was killed. However, making sure that this was a serious project, he gladly agreed to participate in the filming.
Then the actress Ming-Na Ven was invited. The actress has already starred in science fiction series. In the new work, she plays the movie role of agent Melinda May. In the series, she plays a first-class pilot and a knowledgeable specialist in weapons.
The following main roles in the series were young, but promising actors Elizabeth Henstridge, Brett Dalton, Ian De Casker. The final actress to the recruited regular group joined Chloe Bennet.
Elizabeth Henstridge began her acting career in 2010 with a role in a short film, and in 2012 she received one of the main images. In the series, she represents a brilliant scientist - biochemist Gemma Simmons.
Brett Dalton plays the role of agent Grant Ward, nicknamed Hive. He is the leader of the Hydra gang. He began as a future member of the SHIELD, but betrayed him. And now, Grant Ward is the main opponent of the group that helped him in difficult days.
Ian De Casker, an actor from Scotland, began his acting career at the age of thirteen. And already at the age of 25 he was selected for one of the main roles. Leopold Leo Fitz is depicted in the series as a talented and brilliant engineer.
Chloe Bennett, after participating in the filming of the Nashville series, unexpectedly received an invitation to star in the project as Daisy Sky Johnson, a computer genius and a talented hacker.
Nicholas Brandon, Ruth Negga, David Conrad, Saffron Burroughs, Adrian Pasdar played in the series "SHIELD AGENTS". Actors and roles played by them are of secondary importance.
Some movie stars also wanted to star in the first season of "Agents of the SHIELD." The actors and the roles that they picked up diversified this superhero series. Samuel L. Jackson convincingly portrayed SHI head Nick Fury.
“Agents of SHIELD”: second season
In the summer of 2014, the recruitment of actors began to participate in the filming of the second season of "Agents of SHIELD". The composition of the main characters has increased thanks to the inclusion of the former mercenary Lance Hunter. His role is performed by the English actor Nick Blood.
Barbara Bobby Mars (Agent 19) is represented by actress Adrianne Paliki. By the end of the second season, thanks to acting talent, this role joined the ranks of regular characters.
There have been many changes among actors from secondary roles. To them was added the head of the Hydra terrorist organization, Daniel Whitehall. This image was entrusted to play Reed Diamond. The role of the best assistant to the leader of Whitehall was played by Simon Cassianides. Popular American actor Kyle McLachlan starred in the guise of father Daisy Sky Johnson.
The series "Agents of SHIELD" Season 3: actors and roles
In the third season, a team of high-class agents continues to fight with Hydra. The number of heroes in the basic composition is increasing in the series "Agents of SHIELD". Actors and roles that were in a secondary place, such as Luke Mitchell and Henry Simmons, were transferred to the main characters.
Luke Mitchell is an actor from Australia. After moving to America, he starred in the science fiction series People of the Future. He was then invited to the SHIELD AGENTS for the role of Lincoln Campbell. Luke plays a person modified as a result of experiments (nonhumans) who possesses inhuman abilities.
Henry Oswald Simmons Jr. is a popular American film actor. He played the role of the character Alfonso Mack Mackenzie - a colleague of the former head of the SHIELD. Alfonso, like all current agents, are constantly fighting terrorist and criminal organizations.
Juan Pablo Slave and Matthew Wheeling added to the secondary characters. These artists joined the series "Agents of SHIELD - 3". The actors and the roles that they happened to play are modified people. Matthew Willing, as a psychiatrist, went through terreginezis and turned into a non-human with the ability to kill his own kind. Juan Pablo Slave got the image of the non-human Joey Gutierrez. His main ability is to manipulate metal. Shield employees taught him how to cope and control his extraordinary abilities. Now he is an active agent.
Interesting Facts
The first episodes of the series “Agents of SHIELD” began to be shot in January 2013. The first episode shown to the general public gathered more than twelve million admirers on the screens. For four years four seasons of twenty-two episodes each were published.
From May 2017, this interesting and fascinating project will be continued by filming the fifth season.