Last week it was announced that ABC had picked up the Marvel One-Shot spin-off Agent Carter to join the network’s upcoming TV schedule alongside the second season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and now leading lady Hayley Atwell has spoken about reprising her role as Peggy, discussing the attraction of returning to the character, and confirming that the show is set for an eight episode run (which will reportedly fill the gap during Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s midseason break)…
“It’s surreal and humbling that the character that you played four years ago when you’ve done other jobs in other worlds and other genres call you back and say ‘we want you here, we like you and we want you to tell our story’, so I feel that there’s a responsibility to make sure she’s what everyone wants her to be. I think the main thing is fans see her being capable, being sexy, being a femme fatale and they want to see something more, they want to see the complexities and dimensions of her, what makes her tick, what makes her crumble, what makes her crash, and the limitations of who she is, because that makes her all the more relatable.
“I think over the arc of the eight episodes there’ll be a very different facet to who she is which won’t disappoint the fans in making sure that she has a story within herself, as well as the stories of each episode fighting who she fights against and still battling against her own demons and losing the love of her life and what the personal cost to her that is. So there’s many different ideas behind who she is and I think she’s going to become more interesting.”
Originally published May 17, 2014. Updated April 12, 2018.
