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“Longmire” and “Young Guns” star Lou Diamond Phillips is headed back to the box for a gig with Marvel.
While we wait in anticipation for Kevin Feige to cast the versatile thesp as a new Avenger on the big screen, the producers of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D” have Phillips directing an episode of the upcoming sixth season.
Phillips tells EW that “I got the call when I was directing Fear of the Walking Dead down in Austin: ‘Would you direct an episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?’ ‘Yeah, done.’ Instant answer, because of the world, because it’s Marvel. It’s big. It’s comic-book stuff. It’s action. It’s mythology. It’s science-fiction. It’s all of that rolled into one. And of course my old friend Ming-Na was on it. That’s crazy, that’s wonderful!
Phillips was also excited to work with his “Stargate Universe” co-star Ming Na-Wen on the ep, the fifth of the new season.
Meantime, Phillips – one of the nicest, not to mention talented guys out there – can be seen later on in the TV movie “Prodigal Son” with Michael Sheen, about a criminal psychologist who knows how killers think (always handy), and Brian A.Metcalf’s new film “Adverse”, with Mickey Rourke and Sean Astin.
“Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D” returns to ABC in May.
Meanwhile, check out Lou’s dead-on Antonio Banderas impression :
