Agatha All Along’s Joe Locke on His Secretive Teen Role

Every Marvel amusement and movie spawns instrumentality theories, but the fervor astir WandaVision took things to a caller pitch. From speculations astir Mephisto and Reed Richards to a concealed tenth episode, MCU fans were determined to lick the show’s mysteries, for amended and worse.

The upcoming Agatha All Along will spawn plentifulness of theories of its own, but it sounds similar the unit has learned from WandaVision and is determined to not fto things get truthful retired of control. In an interrogation with histrion Joe Locke (who plays Agatha’s tagalong simply known arsenic “Teen”), the Hollywood Reporter noted showrunner Jac Schaeffer took “extra steps” to halt the theorycrafting from getting truthful chaotic. For Teen, this was encouraged by choosing to mute oregon visually censor him whenever helium mentions thing astir his inheritance oregon identity. Despite reasoning each the secrecy was “really frustrating” “at first, Locke yet came astir connected the request to support things adjacent to the chest.

“Secrets are secrets for a reason,” helium explained. “If I was capable to speech astir it now, it would ruin the full constituent of the show, and that is what keeps maine being capable to support a secret.” What’s not a concealed is however overmuch Locke enjoyed playing the character, not conscionable due to the fact that it’s Marvel, but besides since Teen fto him play a much “mysterious and analyzable character” than his erstwhile roles. The astir breathtaking happening for him volition beryllium seeing however audiences instrumentality to Teen and his maturation passim the series. “The Teen we spot successful the archetypal 4 oregon truthful episodes is precise antithetic to the Teen we spot successful the past mates of episodes,” helium teased. “Even connected this property day, radical are talking astir the character, and I’m like, ‘Ah, that’s what you deliberation now.'”

Agatha All Along premieres September 18 connected Disney+.

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