Brett Dalton over zijn rol als Grant Ward in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

RDJ134 17 november 2014 om 13:36 uur

Of je het nu wel of niet leuk vind Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is een verdomd grote hit en kijkt ook nog eens heel erg lekker weg. Eén van de hoofdrol spelers is Brett Dalton die Grant Ward speelt en van good naar bad guy is geswitched. Nu had de website Collider een interview met hem en een klein hapje daar uit kan je hier onder lezen.


It's cool timing, though, because this is so different from what you do on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. that people can really see another side of you.

DALTON:
Not only that, but I look about 30 pounds lighter because I am. When Chris had assembled his first cut, a couple of us who were in New York were in his apartment, watching it. When I went through the door, he was like, "Dude!" I tried to keep it a secret, too, because Marvel is very secretive and I didn't want to jinx it, and we were in the process. But I had gone to the gym, for the first time in my life, so I had put on weight. I just remember Chris opening the door and being like, "What happened to you?" It's interesting, a lot of us have enjoyed a lot of success since this film. I think it's just a really wonderful thing to be a part of a talented group of people like that, and we all knew it. We were all like, "I can only imagine these other guys' careers taking off," and it's special to see that happening. And the fact that we've kept in touch is a really good thing.

Were there any challenges for you, in playing this character?

DALTON:
Yeah, there were challenges, for sure. This was my first bit of film acting, which doesn't really have anything to do with the character and more to do with the actor. I had to figure that all out, which was a little difficult. But, I felt like I really got him. James' journey is that he was in all of the high school plays, and he wanted to get to the furthest place, the quickest. He wanted to be in the heat of the spotlight. He wanted to have all of those parts. He wanted to be on the cover of People magazine. He wanted to be there, in the mix, in that sort of lifestyle. The quickest way to get there, at the time, was reality TV, so he decided to do that. That's not the path that I chose, but I totally get that. I'd like to be invited to those parties, meet Brad Pitt and take a selfie with him, and be on the cover of all those magazines. That hadn't happened to me, in real life, at the time, and it still hasn't, but that certainly was something that I had imagined before.

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