Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Amy Acker Talks Playing The Cellist

Marvel Studios and ABC have released the first official image of Joss Whedon regular Amy Acker as Audrey, the "cellist" and love of Coulson's life first mentioned in Marvel's The Avengers. "I think one of the things that was so interesting about the role is that she has this backstory and she has been talked about in the TV show as well as the movie and you knew that she was someone important to him and, therefore, to everyone and, as an audience member, important to me," Acker said. "I was curious to see who they were going to cast as that person, never actually thinking it was going to be me. [laughs] But [I was] just excited to see how that storyline would play out. So when [series star Clark Gregg] called me personally and said how important this role was to him, that it [needed to be] cast with the right person, it was very flattering that he thought that I was that person." Asked how her character will be dealing with the loss of her boyfriend (since she's not aware that Coulson managed to get out of The Avengers alive), Acker responded, "I think that she's starting to try to put her life back together, and there [are] some great scenes about how hard that's been, but that she's finally gotten to a good place." Don't expect that to last long, though; the initial description of her character was that a superhuman threat with ties to her past will pop back up and bring her back into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s (and Coulson's?) sights.