Could Hayley Atwell Come Back As ‘Agent Carter’ For Season 3 Now that ‘Conviction’ Has Stopped Production?
Hayley Atwell fans were not surprised when it ABC announced that Marvel’s Agent Carter would not be renewed for a third season last summer, since by then it was well understood that Atwell would be heading the network’s newest law-themed drama Conviction. Now it looks as though Hayley maybe looking for more work.
On Tuesday, November 8, ABC announced that the network wasn’t going to order any more episodes of the freshman series Conviction, but it would continue to air the original 13 episodes that were created. While most people in the business would call this decision a “cancellation,” Variety reports that ABC is “keeping its options open.” So, Conviction may or may not be the first show canceled from the 2016 fall season.
In an interview with Peter Travers of ABC News, Hayley Atwell admitted that losing her role of Peggy Carter still smarted.
“I’ve been in Peggy’s world for seven years. That’s when I did the first Captain America film and I had no idea, no expectation of where it would lead me and how far it would take me, so I felt very grateful for it.”
The Agent Carter TV series ended earlier this year after just two short seasons on the air.
“I was sad that I’d miss out on going to work every day with my friends,” Atwell admitted. Then, in this summer’s blockbuster film, Captain America: Civil War, Peggy died of old age. Hayley had turned all of her energies into her new Conviction character, Hayes Morrison, a former first daughter turned lawyer and troublemaker. Atwell described Hayes as if she was a love child between Chelsea Clinton and Lindsay Lohan.
“You can see Hayes Morrison is someone whose been brought up in a very scrutinized public arena of this political world of father having been a president, and she would have been scrutinized and brought up in a way that’s very unnatural and very unhealthy for a child,” said Hayley. “So I like to see Hayes as someone who is responding to be raised in a very difficult environment as best she can.”
So, Atwell’s future with the network remains unclear but as the Movie Network said in September, “The hope for Agent Carter is a light that won’t go out. Fans want the show back, the producers want the show back, and the cast wants the show back.”
Could Hayley Atwell come back as Agent Carter for Season 3? Stranger things have happened.
“…When this pilot [for Conviction] came about, ABC said, ‘Well, this is not like we’re canceling Agent Carter,” said Atwell. “‘This is a great new project. We really want you in the center of it. We want to see if it’s going to go.’ And then, there were talks of, ‘Do we do an Agent Carter special? Does [Conviction] not get picked up, and Agent Carter does? Does the opposite happen? Does neither of them happen? Will I be completely, like, jobless come summer?’ All of that was a possibility, and you can only really focus on what’s right in front of you.”
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Hayley told the Movie Network that she hopes that she would be able to don the hat of Agent Carter once more as there is a huge time gap between the TV series and the Marvel movies and the storylines didn’t completely wrap up after season two of the TV show.
“I would be very happy to go back to her if she became available…. I would love [a special] to be [on the table]. I hound [Marvel Studios co-president Louis] D’Esposito on a regular basis, saying, ‘Give me a movie!'”
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