Marvel.com has exclusively reported that Adrian Pasdar has been cast as classic Hulk villain Glenn Talbot in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Adrian also voices Tony Stark in Marvel’s animated properties. Here is a excerpt from his Marvel.com interview:
So what was it like then suiting up as Talbot? Beforehand, did you do any research into him at all or talk to Jeph about what they were looking for as a character?
Adrian Pasdar: I did my research that I [normally] do which is pretty in-depth and obviously pretty easy to do with a character like this. The best part of the whole thing is that I was actually in Toys”R”Us with my nine-year old in Times Square. We were in New York for the Super Bowl, and that’s when I got a call from Jeph. [My son] heard me very patiently talk to Jeph and as soon as I hung up, my little boy Beckett said, “What’s the job, Dad? What’s the job?” and I said, “Well, do you know Colonel Talbot?” and he said, “Glenn Talbot? Yeah, everybody does.” I said, “Well, they asked me to play him.” He said, “Well, dad. Here’s what we gotta do. We gotta go to Midtown Comics right away because you know the guy on the second floor with the beard?” I said, “Yeah.” “We’ve gotta find him and ask him what he thinks and his questions. He’ll help you out.”
So we left Toys”R”Us and made our way to 40th and 7th and went upstairs, and my man that I was looking for wasn’t there but there’s no shortage of help. I go in there a lot whenever I’m back home with my kids, they’re big comic book fans, so they know me fairly well. I’m not sure if, as a dad they know me, or I know that they know me from some jobs that I’ve done. But whatever it is, the combination, they’re always very helpful and very nice. So we went in there and in no time at all, I had no shortage of guys helping me out finding everything I could about Talbot. And oddly enough, one of them was embarrassed that he had to dig into a database. He looked at me like, “I’m so sorry, dude. I’m going to have to dig in.” He had to go to the phone in his hands. I said, “Hey man, it’s cool. We’re both learning and I couldn’t do this without you. You’re a huge part of what I’m going through right now in trying to figure out who this guy is.” I certainly don’t want to approach it [like some shows approach] legal dramas, where they just base it on what’s come before. Not that it has anything to do with real courtrooms. Anybody who’s been in a real courtroom will tell you it’s nothing like the movies.