Adrian Pasdar
Adrian Pasdar has had connections to Marvel for a long time after he made his big splash in Heroes on NBC as he’s done an immense amount of voice work, playing Tony Stark throughout multiple properties, taking on Hawkeye and Captain America along the way as well. Now he’s suiting up for some live action material by joining Agents of SHIELD for an episode in April. He’s bringing another comics character to life rather than an original one by playing Glenn Talbot, one of the military men that has spent years in the comics trying to track down the Hulk. The character made his firs tappearance way back in 1964 with Tales to Astonie #61 as created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and has had a lengthy comics career, particularly aligned with General Ross. The character has been in previous incarnations before such as the Hulk TV series and various animated adaptations and was portrayed by Josh Lucas in the Hulk film.
Marvel.com: To start with, how did your role as Glenn Talbot come about with S.H.I.E.L.D.?
Adrian Pasdar: In the same way that Iron Man [in “Marvel’s Avengers Assemble”] came up. I got a call from my good friend, ["Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Executive Producer] Jeph Loeb. “Would you come and do this role?” and I read the character description and I thought, “Oh man. Here it is again. The sanctimonious [jerk]. That’s what they’re coming to me for.” [laughs] His way’s the only way! I said, “Jeph, are you trying to tell me something?” He said, “No, not at all! Nobody can play this quite like you, but no.” [laughs] So he came to me and I said yes.
Check out the full interview here.