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As part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, SHIELD, aka the Strategic Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division, is a very important organization. Kind of like the FBI but for superheroes, it was introduced in the first “Iron Man” movie before finally disbanding after the events of “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” More importantly, it inspired seven seasons of ABC’s “Agents of SHIELD”.
Over the course of these seven seasons, there have been many great guest stars, including Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Furyamong many others. Early in the series, there was even a pop-up appearance from a relatively young Jimmy O. Yang, the comedian who would go on to star in shows like “Silicon Valley” and “Space Force,” among others.
“Agents of SHIELD” followed Clark Gregg’s Agent Coulson and his team at SHIELD – including hacker-turned-Agent Chloe Bennet’s “Skye”, as she is initially called – as they investigated strange happenings around the world and beyond. In the season 1 episode “Flower Dress Girl”, Yang appears briefly as “Chinese Teenage Girl #1”. In an interview with his co-star Ronny Chieng for Complex While pushing for the release of “Interior Chinatown” in 2024, the comedian/actor briefly discussed the role:
“We filmed our show ‘Interior Chinatown’ in some of the [the Los Angeles] Chinatown, and I was also the No. 1 Chinese teenager in a series that was filmed in Chinatown, in Chloe Bennet’s series, Marvel’s ‘Agents of SHIELD,’ about 10 years ago.”
The episode itself centers on an elusive girl in a floral dress who may hold the key to a mystery that brings Coulson and his team to Asia to save a young man with an unusual and dangerous power. It also features a B-plot in which Skye hides a secret that jeopardizes her relationship with the team.
Agents of SHIELD was one of Jimmy O. Yang’s first acting roles.
Yang’s role as “Agents of SHIELD” was, admittedly, very minimal, and although the series’ place in the broader MCU canon is a bit nebulousYang is still technically part of the Marvel family. Meanwhile, “Agents of SHIELD” itself remains highly beloved, as many fans of the series have become cavalier or dead over time.
Additionally, the series marked one of the actor’s first gigs in Hollywood and helped serve as a springboard to bigger things. Indeed, Yang will continue to play a key role in “Silicon Valley,” in addition to appearing in films like “Crazy Rich Asians” and “Patriots Day.” He also starred in and produced “Easter Sunday” in 2022..
What’s interesting is that fate would reunite him with his “Agents of SHIELD” co-star, Bennet, years later while working on “Interior Chinatown.” Talk with Collider At the time, he explained what it was like to work with her almost a decade later:
“I didn’t get a chance to meet her. I would have been nervous to try to meet her. And now she’s kind of playing my love interest in all of this and, of course, has her own story as Lana Lee, which is a great story. It was cool and serendipitous. That’s why the story felt so relatable to me because I experienced the same things as Willis. I was a background guy. I was ‘Chinese Teenager No. 1’. I was a technician without giving too much away, his whole journey made me feel like I was able to draw on my past experience to know where Willis was in each episode.”
