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Dalton said he's shrugging off talk of pressure on "Marvel's Agents" to score big. "I'm sort of blissfully unaware of that," he said. "I see the billboards everywhere
-- how could you not? -- and the ads, but my feet are still firmly on the ground." His career path was set as a high school senior, when he overcame qualms about the drama club scene ("Theater people could be a little off-putting, a little weird") to try out for a production of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." "I knew in the first five minutes of auditioning that this was what I was meant to be doing for the rest of my life," Dalton said. He earned an undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley, followed by a master's degree from the Yale School of Drama. In between there were two years in New York, then two more after Yale as he attempted to put his stage training to use. "The theater didn't decide to take a chance on me," he said,
candidly. "So I'm going to go with where the 'yesses' are, and that's from TV and film." Good writing is what counts whatever the medium, "and we have the best possible team to do that," Dalton said. But action also matters in "Marvel's Agents," and the actor said he's thrilled to be doing most of his own stunt work.
"They just keep saying, 'Hey, can you do that?' and I keep, saying,
'Yeah,'" Dalton said. But he won't share details of any examples. "It would spoil it," he said, with discretion worthy of a superhero. ___ Online:
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