In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Clark Gregg recently spoke out about Phil’s possible death on Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Are we finally getting some answers after the day after Coulson died?
CLARK GREGG: Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. People have been really patient. Phil Coulson’s been really patient. I might add Clark Gregg’s been damn patient. [Laughs] I had a lot of mysterious stuff spelled out for me when I was told about this job. I loved the basic premise that played out in the pilot that he has a comparatively innocuous story that he believes about this near-miss that he experienced, dead-for-eight-seconds version. And there’s a darker secret as to how he was brought back to life, but to be in the middle of it and just be a tiny bit further ahead than the actual audience, I’ve been really really getting anxious to get more information, to really find out what’s driving him, why the people who’ve known him longest say that he’s different, how is he different? [It’s] something that’s not just some secret medical practice but something that’s mysterious, big enough, dark enough, and integral enough to the plans of the nefarious Centipede organization that they pulled a swap and let Mike Peterson go in order to kidnap Agent Coulson to find out what really happened in “Tahiti.” It seems like standalone episodes are all being fused together and it’s all becoming part of this broader fabric that’s really all connected, and it’s also exciting to me because I just think episode 111 puts him in the hands of people with all kinds of technology and terrifying powers who are ironically bent on the same thing that he has wanted, which is to find out what really happened, so to kind of get in the place where he has a chance to get that information and yet, by actually submitting to their methods, might put himself in a position where he could reveal more than he wants to to them is a tremendous dilemma for an actor to deal with.
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