Post by beren44 on Nov 24, 2017 18:16:14 GMT
The following is an article from my local newspaper's weekly TV guide section. I decided to re-type it for you rather than try to scan and save it as an attachment. Might contain some slight spoilers for those who have kept their head under their pillow for the off-season.
Jemma Simmons has survived a number of strange places, along with the rest of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."... but how will they fare in outer space?
As last spring's season finale suggested, the cosmos is the setting as the ABC fantasy-adventure series opens its fifth round Friday, Dec. 1. Elizabeth Henstridge is among the cast returnees as the science-minded Simmons, who has some truly universal concerns in worrying about her status with longtime comrade-and-more Leo Fitz (played by Iain De Caestecker), whose time in the mysterious Framework altered his usually genial personality in a lethal way.
"It really challenges us as actors," the pleasant, British-born Henstridge says of the space setting, "because it gives the show a whole new look. We showed the first 20 minutes at New York Comic-Con, and the reaction has been so positive, it just makes us even more excited. It's been so cool filming it."
While she maintains the series' new year marks "the biggest leap it's made yet" between seasons, Henstridge notes that Simmons has been in space before: "There's a lot of green screen, and we have the most amazing special-effects makeup artists, so there's a lot that we can actually act opposite (rather than the characters being inserted digitally later) - which is fun. You just don't know what they are going to come up with next, and this (season) opens up a whole new avenue."
Still, if there's Simmons there's Fitz - and those characters and their portrayers have a drastically revised dynamic to deal with now.
"She doesn't know where Fitz is at the start," Henstridge reports, "so she's having to deal with all this change while they're not together. They do have a lot of things to sort out that they never see to be able to get around to in typical FitzSimmons fashion, but they need to find each other first."
As last spring's season finale suggested, the cosmos is the setting as the ABC fantasy-adventure series opens its fifth round Friday, Dec. 1. Elizabeth Henstridge is among the cast returnees as the science-minded Simmons, who has some truly universal concerns in worrying about her status with longtime comrade-and-more Leo Fitz (played by Iain De Caestecker), whose time in the mysterious Framework altered his usually genial personality in a lethal way.
"It really challenges us as actors," the pleasant, British-born Henstridge says of the space setting, "because it gives the show a whole new look. We showed the first 20 minutes at New York Comic-Con, and the reaction has been so positive, it just makes us even more excited. It's been so cool filming it."
While she maintains the series' new year marks "the biggest leap it's made yet" between seasons, Henstridge notes that Simmons has been in space before: "There's a lot of green screen, and we have the most amazing special-effects makeup artists, so there's a lot that we can actually act opposite (rather than the characters being inserted digitally later) - which is fun. You just don't know what they are going to come up with next, and this (season) opens up a whole new avenue."
Still, if there's Simmons there's Fitz - and those characters and their portrayers have a drastically revised dynamic to deal with now.
"She doesn't know where Fitz is at the start," Henstridge reports, "so she's having to deal with all this change while they're not together. They do have a lot of things to sort out that they never see to be able to get around to in typical FitzSimmons fashion, but they need to find each other first."
