Agatha All Alongside’s Joe Locke on His Secretive Teen Position

Each Marvel present and movie spawns fan theories, however the fervor round WandaVision took issues to a brand new pitch. From speculations about Mephisto and Reed Richards to a secret tenth episode, MCU followers had been decided to unravel the present’s mysteries, for higher and worse.

The upcoming Agatha All Alongside will spawn loads of theories of its personal, however it sounds just like the crew has discovered from WandaVision and is decided to not let issues get so uncontrolled. In an interview with actor Joe Locke (who performs Agatha’s tagalong merely often known as “Teen”), the Hollywood Reporter famous showrunner Jac Schaeffer took “additional steps” to cease the theorycrafting from getting so chaotic. For Teen, this was inspired by selecting to mute or visually censor him every time he mentions something about his background or id. Regardless of considering all of the secrecy was “actually irritating” “at first, Locke ultimately got here round on the necessity to hold issues near the chest.

“Secrets and techniques are secrets and techniques for a motive,” he defined. “If I used to be capable of speak about it now, it might smash the entire level of the present, and that’s what retains me having the ability to hold a secret.” What’s not a secret is how a lot Locke loved taking part in the character, not simply because it’s Marvel, but in addition since Teen let him play a extra “mysterious and complex character” than his earlier roles. Essentially the most thrilling factor for him might be seeing how audiences take to Teen and his development all through the sequence. “The Teen we see within the first 4 or so episodes may be very totally different to the Teen we see within the final couple of episodes,” he teased. “Even on this press day, persons are speaking in regards to the character, and I’m like, ‘Ah, that’s what you assume now.’”

Agatha All Alongside premieres September 18 on Disney+.

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