Hernández at Frank & Son Collectables
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…and he talks exclusively to Se Fija! about his work, his character, and appearing on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC
It’s not like Maximiliano Hernández is a newcomer to Latino Hollywood. Just before “Agent Sitwell” moved front-and-center in The Avengers, Captain America, and even some of Marvel’s wonderful short subjects in between, Hernández was becoming famous, and then famously dead, on The Americans. And before that Ringer, Terriers, 24, and every variation of Law & Order. In fact, he’s been regularly appearing in front of us for more than ten years.
But now he’s part of the Marvel-verse, and things will never be the same. SeFija! caught up with him at a recent event at Frank & Sons Collectables in Southern California, and we had a chance to sit down and talk about his work on the Marvel movies and TV shows and on his relationship to his fans for that work and The Americans.
L-r: Saffron Burrows, Titus welliver
and Maximiliano Hernández
MARVEL’S Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Maximiliano isn’t as nearly as button-down as Agent Sitwell, and he sees portraying him as a kind of a relief: he gets to play someone other than himself. And he likes Winter Soldier because it’s “the least superhero-y of the superhero movies–more a detective movie or a political thriller.” The other stars of the film echoed that sentiment at a recent press conference. And though Sitwell is not demonstrably Latino, it’s still an interesting choice: Maximiliano is clearly ‘ethnic,’ where the original rendition of the character in Marvel Comics is a red-headed, crew-cut, teeth-gritting ultra-conservative, and was among the least ‘likeable’ S.H.I.E.L.D. agents for years before his…remodeling. Now he’s more a “protégé of Agent Coulson,” Maximiliano says. “He’s strangely meticulous; he likes things in a certain order, and he’s always making sure everything’s the way it’s supposed to be. And he gets rattled when it’s out of his control.”
Look for more Sitwell in future episodes of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and look for more Maximiliano Hernández in an upcoming feature Imperial Dreams and the post-apocalypse series The Last Ship this summer on TNT.
