Last time we saw Ward, he was being kicked around by May after deceiving
S.H.I.E.L.D. and more importantly his team and friends.
In the first season Ward was basically a tool, which John Garrett, the Clairvoyant found,
molded and used at his discretion. But now without orders from Garrett, what will
Ward do?
"Well, that’s a good
question. I think we got a hint at that in the season finale. Who is Grant Ward
without Agent Garrett? He’s always number two. He can follow commands really
well. He can do and make tough choices and he can sometimes do unpleasant
things in the name of something that he feels he believes in. But we’re not
exactly sure who Grant Ward is without somebody telling him what to do. We got
a bit of that because with Garrett, Grant Ward was just asking for something.
“Give me something to do! What do I do now?” And Garrett was like, “You’ve done
it! We’ve accomplished it! We got there.” I don’t think that Ward knows the
answer to that question himself. And now we have a full season to explore that.
“Who is he without someone telling him what to do?” You’ll find out. I’ve had a
lot of time to think about that question. I’m really happy that the writers
didn’t try to rush a little redemptive arc at the end of last season because I
really do think it would have felt rushed. Now we have a whole season to
explore that.
I think it’s a good thing that
we got some opportunities in the last season to explore Ward’s past. All that
stuff about his family and his brothers and his troubled childhood and Garrett
coming along when he was in the juvenile hall and opening a door saying, “Do
you want the red pill or the blue pill?” We saw a lot of his past. Now I think
we’re going to see a lot of his future and what he decides to do from here on
out."
Now all alone in a cell, what will Ward do? Will he redeem himself, and
help out his former team?
"I think he’s a wildcard. At this point his allegiances are kind of put into question because he wasn’t really loyal to Hydra. He was loyal to Agent Garrett. He was loyal to what became a father figure, and he was more about his teammates rather than the team. Then we see that same thing when he was undercover with the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents on the plane and going on these missions with Fitz and sleeping with May and all of those other things. Clearly, there are attachments. As undercover as you are, those things clearly challenge your training, I think. Even if you’re undercover or a spy, I think sleeping with somebody’s really got to put a question mark on things. And also, his decision where he was ordered to kill FitzSimmons, but much like his situation with the dog, he couldn’t off them. He couldn’t see it. He couldn’t pull the trigger when the dog was right there or when Fitz and Simmons were right there. So what he ends up doing is perhaps giving them a chance? All that we know is that he certainly, as much as he’d like to deny it, has a heart and has feelings. So there we go."
Last
season the writers of the show kept their cards close to their chest and didn't
give actors too much information about their characters and story in advance,
but what about this new season?
"Initially they were
keeping their cards really close to the chest, and even now they are, but there
are little hints in the writing that I’m picking up that I’m taking and running
with them. So even though they haven’t really, literally given me an idea of
where exactly this is headed--and they do know, I know that they know--I feel
like there’s enough in the writing that I’m getting a lot. I just found some
things in there that I really embraced, and I have my own theory about where
this is all going and I hope I’m right. What more can I say? [laughs] He’s a very smart guy,
and it seems that he’s perhaps turned over a new leaf. But at the same time there’s
a question of why [he’s done that], and I have my own theories but I think
that’s what the audience is going to feel as well. He seems to be doing this,
but why? I’ve sort of filled in the line and it seems to be working.
All these team members are really
successful when something is happening and there’s something else entirely
happening underneath. So I think this team, not only are they really well
written, but we get a ton of backstory and a ton of chemistry. We get all that
stuff for free. Anytime one of us is in the room now with me, we get all that
other stuff. All the missions we’ve been on, all the shared sandwiches we’ve
had, all of that stuff is there in the room as well. I feel like the scenes
that we’ve shot so far have a lot of good stuff on top, with the theme, and
then there’s a whole lot of juicy subtext going on as well. It’s great. We’re
really building on all of the stuff that we built in Season 1, but not in a
precious way, either. [We’re] introducing new characters, completely new storylines,
[but] also going places where people are not expecting us to go."
Marvels Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
return on September 23rd.
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