"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Starlet on Working with Joss Whedon

Hey guys, it's Chloe Bennet. I'm at the Young Hollywood studios. Gonna walk in to these guys. Look at all these computers. How many computers and really cute guys can you fit into one hotel room? Now I'm heading to the cutest of all. Not Oliver, it's the dog. He better be sitting on my lap this entire interview. The dog. This is the good stuff.

What is your name?

Georgie.

Hi, Georgie. The lovely Chloe Bennet. Yes. Thank you for joining us on the sofa. We're very excited.

Thank you. Yes. See I'm nervous as this.

You're nervous. Chloe's very nervous about Georgie passing wind. I think I think he just did again. Did he? Don't don't go close and smell it. That's just weird. If he has past wind, let it flow. Let it flow. Let it flow.

I think I tasted a bit, man.

Tasted a bit? It's wafting. Um, other than your obsession for dogs passing wind,

Mhm.

um, you're doing very well in the acting world.

Oh, thanks.

Agents of Shield.

Mhm.

That's the show. Marvel's Agents of Shield. Marvel's Agents. You know what it stands for? Amazing. Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. Did you do that? That's good research. Did you know that?

I did. But you're not an agent of Shield.

I'm not, technically, yet. So a bit of a fraud.

I'm a liar.

Yeah, you're lying.

Um, no, I play Skye who's a computer hacker and she hacks Shield. Out of a laptop, out of her van. Bad ass.

Bad really bad ass.

Bad ass. Yeah. Even more bad ass because I am really bad with computers. But yeah, so she comes in on the team and um, kind of stirs things up a bit.

Because you're quite obsessed with the superhero world, aren't you?

I am. I in a in a in a way where it's personal. So you'll see stuff

Right.

Some secrets come out.

Well, it would be personal because superheroes tend to be very handsome.

Yeah. It's personal when it comes to Thor. Right. And Chris Evans. Yeah. Right. Okay. Very good looking men. That's when it's personal. If they wanted to stop by the show and just do a cameo and marry me, it would be fine.

You'd be fine with it. Which one would you choose? Chris Evans or Chris Hemsworth?

Thor. Yeah. I'd choose the other one.

You know who I would choose? Loki.

Loki. Okay. Okay. I like that. You did?

Yeah. He's a little weird. Sounds like it could be a known pet name as well, isn't it?

Yeah. Loki. Come on, let's get Loki in the bedroom. That does. Yeah. That does. It does.

Were you a fan of uh, comic books?

You know, I was. I think more than most girls. I have six brothers. So, they were on, you know, comic books and and comic movies and sports were around the house more than Disney Princesses for sure. Okay. So, I think more than most girls. But then once you're cast in a Joss Whedon, Marvel show, you go to town with comic books and you read lots of lot of things and you watch all the movies again. Um, and you mentioned another powerful man, Joss. Joss Whedon. How was that working with him? Is it a lot of pressure going into a show with someone as successful?

You know, I thought it was. And then you get there and he's so calm and attitude reflects leadership. He has the best attitude. And he dances all the time, which eases the stress. Dancing is very good for easing. He has the most amazing knees. He they just bend in ways. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what this means.

If we were playing charades, I wouldn't have guessed knees. What would you get? Probably Caesar. But you do take your job seriously because you also, you got a speeding ticket on the way to this audition, didn't you?

I did. For my producer session. I was speeding to Santa Monica.

And you got a ticket?

And I got, no, no, no. I got a ticket. But I think that helped because Skye's a little like that. She would get pulled over and then she would get

Right.

out of the ticket.

If would that be your superpower of choice, speed?

No, I know exactly what my superpower of choice would be. It would be to be able to transport myself whenever I want and like, and if I touched you, you could just go with me anywhere or any or like Georgie. Okay. Anyone I touched. And and we're in Tahiti. Tahiti. God, it's beautiful. Didn't work. Didn't work. I'm here. I'm there. I'm there. You're there.

Now most people are probably looking at this thinking, Marvel Agents of Shield, but Nashville is what we also know you from.

Yes. Yeah, I was down there in Nashville. If you guys haven't been to Nashville, it's the best city ever. Um, yeah, I was started there. And then I also started doing some music in China. I was actually just in high school, like in geometry class and randomly this management company in New York was like, "Hey, you want to be a pop star in Asia?" And I I was like, "That sounds like so much more fun than geometry class."

And you decided to do the, to do the music well?

No. No. Only star answer like that. Yeah. The acting's going well. That was fun. I think of that as like my high school job and some people worked at Abercrombie. Right. Some people were weird. And I was a Chinese pop star.

Didn't you didn't you learn Mandarin as well?

I did. I did. Uh, can you speak it? I I can poorly now, but I can.

Can you teach me some?

Okay. What do you want to say? Anything. I can't say anything. I can't say it. Yeah, okay. Wo ai ni. Like wo. Like woah. Like wo. Okay. Ai ni. Wo. Ai ni. Oh Georgie, I'm just kidding. I don't love her. Come back. Oh, she's just She doesn't You're getting too close with it. She doesn't. You tell her that, she's running away. You've got to play hard to get, friend. She left.

Marvel Agents of Shield. Marvel Agents of Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement Logistics Division. Watch it. It's a massive show. Um, she's in it. Why else would you need to be sold on the idea?