Captain Marvel‘s Clark Gregg Opens Up About His Deep Connection With Agent Coulson

As relatively small as SHIELD Agent Phil Coulson ’s character was in Iron Man almost 11 age ago , the character ’s expire on to become one of the most important pieces of connective narration tissue paper tying the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe together .

In the years since Coulson was first introduced , he ’s had what ’s arguably the most risible Word - y graphic symbol arc in the MCU , give his intimacy with SHIELD , the Avengers , pass away and being raise only to be flung into a distant apocalyptic future , dying again , and on the face of it being brought back once moreforAgents of SHIELD ’s forthcoming time of year . The irony of Coulson ’s wild risky venture is n’t at all drop off on actor Clark Gregg .

We caught up with him of late to talk about his role in Captain Marvel and what ’s next for Coulson . Of course , he was cagey about specific item regardingAgents of SHIELD ’s potential start into the future , but he was open about being game for every twist and turn the MCU ’s put him through :

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They ’ve given me everything I ever could have wanted . I thought I ’d had a great journey at the end of Avengers . I ’d had a brilliant death and I was happy . That versus showing up to vex Tony Stark and Pepper Potts in four more picture — none of that was nearly as fun as what I did in Avengers .

And then to go as deep as Agents of SHIELD has , to have a new kinsperson for six years and to be able to amount back to do more origin stuff , it ’s just been a good outpouring and Coulson ’s had an amazing adventure .

As Coulson ’s life has vary , Gregg ’s human relationship with the character has similarly taken on new depth , and he explained that as prison term ’s gone on , the way he goes about getting into the headspace to embody Coulson has develop :

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There are parts of him that come very easily to me . His organizational , leaders thing — that feels well-situated for me to slip into too . There ’s a protecting one ’s roll in the hay single and mob , that feels natural . But there are slipway that his commitment to duty , and his abilities to be serious and fledged can be challenging for me at fourth dimension .

At this compass point , the membrane between us is very runny . Sometimes , one of my castmates or bosses will come to me and be concerned about where I ’m at emotionally , and it film me a second to realize that it ’s me , I ’m still in the moment and I ’m worried about the person Coulson ’s worried about .

When we press Gregg about who Coulson might be worried about whenAgents of SHIELD returns this summertime , he deflected but did say that viewers can look frontwards to a season that feel “ very , very original . ” Make of that what you will .

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