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"He's vulnerable and kind of finding his way in this," Jackson
told Reuters about his character, the protagonist with the eye
patch in the TV action series "Secret Invasion."
The six-episode show premieres on Disney+ on Wednesday.
It follows Nick Fury as he and his allies fight to stop the
shapeshifting reptilian humanoids known as the Skrulls from
committing international terrorist attacks and eventually
invading Earth.
The cast includes Ben Mendelsohn as Talos, a Skrull ally of Nick
Fury, Emilia Clarke as G'iah, Talos' daughter, and Olivia Colman
as agent Sonya Falsworth.
While the series, directed by Ali Selim, is based on other
projects from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), it takes a
different direction from previous Marvel shows.
"Superheroes can't fix the problems that we're trying to fix.
So, it's innately human," Clarke said. "There are people talking
in rooms, which you're not used to in the MCU. But they're
always trying to mess with convention. They're always trying to
create something genuinely new."
Fury, along with other members of the spy organization known as
the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics
Division (S.H.I.E.L.D), doesn't have supernatural abilities to
lean on to help win the day.
"It happens in a very organic kind of way, to know that we're
inside something that doesn't have a superhero solution,"
Jackson said.
What it does have, from the first episode, is plenty of
suspense, said Clarke.
"You really won't know who is what and how and when, and
there'll still be a moment when they will get you and it will be
shocking. And that, in itself, is just so juicy," she said.
(Reporting by Danielle Broadway and Rollo Ross; Editing by Mary
Milliken and Rosalba O'Brien)
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