Interview with Luke Mitchell & Nick Blood
June 8, 2016 | Luke Mitchell and Nick Blood from "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D" are a dream team! Luke, the lovely, kind sunshine from Australia and Nick, the sarcastic Briton with the quick humor. When we met the two actors for our interview Sunday at noon at MCM Hannover Comic Con they were well rested and talked joyfully about exploring Hannover the night before. Luke is a fan of the German beer Hefeweizen and Nick shared a hilarious story about being served a coffee when he thought he had ordered beer from the menu. In the first part of our interview Luke and Nick answered Nicola's questions about "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", and after that Luke also kindly answered my "The Tomorrow People" questions.
Click here to read part 2 of our interview with Luke Mitchell and Nick Blood, in which we talk about "The Tomorrow People"
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What did you like about the sets of "Agents of Shield"?
Luke: Everything about the sets! They are so well done, it makes it feel like it's real. You feel like you are on a real ship, you feel like you are in a real underground base. You are in Coulsons office and the props that they have that are never even seen, that you see in the background very briefly, they are never in focus. But you go and touch them and feel them, they are so cool. They have done just an amazing job to create the world and they really have, they literally have created this world. They have put a lot of money into it and you can see that.
Nick: Yeah the detail is incredible. It's one of the things, that when people come and visit, like family, and you can take them on there and see the plane and everything and it's just jaws hitting the floor. I mean the first time I went on set it was...
Luke: ...it's very impressive. I feel like oftentimes on a set, the set is less impressive then when you watch the tv show. Like it looks really cool but then you go to the set and it's smaller then I tought and you are like „Okay, good special effects." but this is almost the opposite.
Nick: It's really incredible! You know in our job we are always front and center, cause you know you are the actor, you are seen on screen and the people forget that it would be nothing without the whole crew and everyone working so hard. The detail on even documents that we get. There is this scene, where we are going through files that are Whitehalls files and as we are doing this in the scene, we are improvising, going through boxes. And I was looking through pages and halfway through these files there were transcripts of interviews that have been fabricated with the characters! So the detail is just crazy. There is a scene where we go in a jewelry store and at the start of the week you see people going into one of the stages with wood and nails and tools and a few days later you've got a jewelry store.
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Luke, about the final episode of season 3: Did you know what would happen? Did you get the whole script or just pieces and had to figure it out like the viewers?
Luke: It was probably the first time in the history of my time on the show that I got information before just one episode. Normally you get the new scripts maybe a few days before you start shooting that script and based on what happens in the finale I had a meeting with the producers the same day that we read episode 21. So, you know, a decent amount of time. But when they introduce a bit of piece of information into the story, like someone is gonna die, you naturally start thinking who that might be. There is a little bit of chatter on the set between the actors about who it potentially could be and if it would be one of the main characters and all that sort of stuff.
Nick: Yeah and everyone is like: It's gonna be me!
Luke: Yeah but I actually did kind of see it coming a little bit. So I was a little bit prepared and when they confirmed it for me I was like „Okay, cool!". I thought the story was fantastic. There is no better way to go out. I literally went out with a bang!
So you liked your ending for your character?
Luke: Absolutely! I mean if you have to die you gotta die in a spectacular way.
Nick: Yeah what if it's like you tripped over backwards and then he's gone. You know then they go: Oh he's gone and that's it.
Luke (laughs): Exactly.
Let’s talk about the scene in the bar, Nick: It was both very emotional and also a kind of fitting goodbye (hopefully not for long). How was it to film it? Was it emotional?
Nick: We actually shot that scene at the start of the schedule for that episode, it was quite early on and it was one of these ones, because it was so early on in the episode, we are all on set and all of a sudden you realize: Oh no, this is the last time we all are going to shoot our scenes together, because we don't in the rest of that episode. I mean it was the last time that we really connect and really interact with each other. It's something that you suddenly realize. When you do a scene like that you obviously have to transport yourself into that kind of mindset and it makes it quite easy when you look at people and think "We are going to say goodbye in that scene." It's not a goodbye but it's an au revoir kind of thing. It's goodbye from "Agents of Shield"...
Luke: It heightens it!
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Nick: Definitely! And there is also the fact that you are responding to people that are doing a great job in character, so you respond to that. It made it quite „easy" for everybody, it tackles the emotions. It was nice to get a day with everybody and it felt like a lot of the crew and writers and so on where very much invested in that story, particular in that scene. It was kind of weird to do it on the second day on the schedule for that episode but I was really happy with the way it came out and very grateful for the writer, Paul Zbyszewski, who wrote that scene. I think he wrote that scene before anything else, he had this idea that that could be their goodbye and how everything else worked out.
Luke, your wife told us in her panel yesterday, that she would have loved to see you shoot your zero-gravity scene. How was it to film that?
Luke: Incredibly weird! It wasn't an easy scene to film. We were in harnesses which ordinarily are not very comfortable things. So we are kind of hanging there in these harnesses, but we couldn't just hang there normally. I kind of had to push my hips forward and had to hold my head back and whilst I'm doing this I had to do all this stuff to sell the zero-gravity thing. In this position it's an ab workout, so halfway trough the scene I start shaking and then they call „cut" and I'm like: Guys, was that any good? I mean I was shaking, could you see my shaking? So we had to work out a way...well I only had to be in that position for that wide shot and they didn't use the wide shot terribly much. And they knew that they wouldn't use it that much so after we did a couple more takes then they put us on stools and I didn't have to lean back quite so much and therefore not doing an ab workout, cause that’s not fun when you are trying to focus on other things when you are shaking. It was really surreal.
We kind of shot it in pieces, because it was kind of a tricky thing. I was in the cockpit and then they had to shoot me floating from the cockpit to where Brett was floating. That was on a separate day than the main scene where we are floating side by side. At one point we were a little close together and the director was like: "Can you just move your hands apart? It kind f looks like you are holding hands."
Nick: Aw that's sweet!
Luke: We should have done a shot like that.
For the bloopers.
Luke: Exactly! You know it was bittersweet, because you acknowledge that this is your final scene.
You never know how much work goes into all that. I was always wondering how they do the zero-gravity stuff.
Luke: Unfortunately it's not as cool as a story as it could have been. And then they have the green-screens behind the cockpit and with the special effect they make it look like we are in space. And obviously they removed the cables so that it is just you dangling there.
Nick, what would you prefer more: Working in the SHIELD team or working with Bobbi?
Nick: Well I think that Lance Hunter would probably prefer just to work with Bobbi, so when they get a break they could ease themselves with their preying eyes. But also he likes to go off book, he kind of got a healthy conspiracy of authority, so I think he would prefer to do everything on his own terms but personally for me it's more fun when you are around everyone and get to hang out with the gang.
Read part 2 of our interview with Luke Mitchell and Nick Blood, in which we talk about "The Tomorrow People".
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