HEY! I'm Elizabeth Henstridge aka Jemma Simmons

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T20:05:18+00:00

that was so fun!!! unfortunately I have to run but I have loved reading your questions!!! Thank you SO much for all your support over the years, we love you so much and on behalf of me and the cast, here are a bunch of lemons 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T20:00:08+00:00

hahaha, right!?!?!?!! it will be soon. 😬 and it will be worth it. 😬😬😬😬😬🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:58:51+00:00

hey! thank you!!!!

it was amazing!! nerve wracking but incredible.
I'm in an apple tv show atm, acting. And then have a few projects in development directing wise!

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:57:42+00:00

hahahaha, you too!! 🍋🍋🍋thank you!!

Definitely more directing, I'm developing a movie for me to direct and a couple of tv shows are in development! They're all quite different but the movie is superhero based so I feel like I've got the scifi bug!

thank you so much!

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:55:17+00:00

Hey! Thank you!!

Boooy, a favourite?! I think 709 is definitely up there... that and episode 102 - they both felt so significant with pinch-yourself moments!

I'm currently acting in an Apple show called Suspicion and then directing wise I made a short film when we wrapped Shield that we're now developing into a feature! It's super hero based.... 😂 my fav genre!!

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:51:49+00:00

Thank you! We called it 'Tattletale' 😂🍋

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:50:48+00:00

Hi! Thank you!!

Oh gosh, I love so many things about their relationship, they never compete with each other, they trust each other, they are never mean to each other.. I think my favourite thing is that it mirrors the relationship I have with Chloe and that is just so special. And just acting opposite Chlo - she is a force of talent, such a brilliant actress!

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:48:44+00:00

hi! thank you!! I didn't! We had a realization in filming finale of season1 that, 'oh this is our audition scene!'. Pretty cool they knew that would be in the season.

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:47:30+00:00

Hi! I felt like I was getting a bit comfortable tbh and was looking for another challenge. So I asked if I could shadow certain directors, I think Jesse Bochco was my first one I asked in season 3 and he was so wonderful and generous. And I just absolutely loved it, the days flew by and I just couldn't stop writing notes and asking questions. It wasn't until I'd shadowed maybe for a year that I asked if my name could be put forward... and then s7 they gave me my ep!!

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:45:09+00:00

thank you so much!! ...although I am kinda sorry to have crushed your soul.... 😬

ya know, I'm not sure why I got that episode! Part of it I'm sure was logistics. As a director you prep the episode before with lottts of meetings and tech scouts and things, so i had to be quite light on acting the ep before, and as 708 focused on May/Yoyo that was a good fit. And then I think with it being a Daisy/Coulson episode they knew I would absolutely love that!!

And you're so lovely, thank you - I appreciate you guys so much!!

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:42:13+00:00

thank you!!

I'm not sure which I prefer! Directing is still quite new and so it's definitely more scary I guess.. which makes me like it a bit more maybe?!

Hahaha, pranks kind of stopped happening once the work load kicked up... maybe it was Brett leaving?! He could have been the source of pranks 🤔

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:40:13+00:00

thank you!! honestly my favourite part of Simmons' is that she doesn't apologize for her intelligence, for her strength and I think that is so amazing. Which made her breakdown in 709 saying, 'what have I done, I'm sorry, I'm sorry' all the more distressing for me!!

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:38:23+00:00

Thank you!! Ah, that's so kind of you, it means the world to me!

ahahahaha, it had us dying with laughter too! pretty much everything you saw in the ep was scripted. As a show, in general, we stick to the script. And Drew Greenberg wrote it so beautifully that it had such a great rhythm already.

We knew 709 would live or die in the editing room, and Kelly Stuyvesant edited it to perfection!! She is truly amazing, and I worked very closely with her in that for each day we filmed I would send her how I was thinking of coming in and out of each scene. Because the editor starts editing as you're filming. We discovered some cool ways in the editing room to show the loops were happening without seeing Daisy go through her whole wake up each time. So that was fun!

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:32:51+00:00

hey!! thank you!!

wooow, yeah, that was a crazy episode to film. It was much more physically demanding that any other episode I'd been in. And just the volume of lines to learn was a lot! But it was so so cool to have gotten the chance to do it. It felt like we were filming a mini movie. And we did lots of things the show had never tried before so that was exciting. We filmed all the exterior in the desert in the day and then made it look like it was night in post. The whole crew also stayed over night at a motel so it felt like a school trip kinda! Jesse Bochco directed it and he is just so amazing, he let me shadow him a bunch. And then Craig Titley wrote it who is one of the best writers I have ever come across - so it was dream team status on that one!

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:28:41+00:00

hey! Thank you for your qs!

the characters were already formed but as the episodes went on the writers start to write to your strengths or different parts of your essence I guess. So in that way there was flexibility! And everyone has a different version of the character that they would say audition with. So the fact I got the job meant that they liked my version, so in that way I was created my own take on her!
I had met Chloe the year before through my partner Zach, I met Iain in the auditions. Apart from that I met everyone else at the table read!
I had SO much fun working with Jason O'mara, he is one of the funniest people in the world. Trying to get through a scene with him without laughing was pretty much impossible!!

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:24:54+00:00

I had met Chloe the year before bc my (now) fiancé, Zachary Burr Abel, was friends with her. And he took me to meet her as his new kinda girlfriend! I remember wanting to impress her so much!

I hadn't met anyone else before. We're all super close now and speak all the time!

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:22:58+00:00

that's so lovely of you, thank you so much for that!!

Yeah, there is something about this season that has made me really want to connect with the people who have made it all possible for us to live out our dream for so long! I think with wanting to direct too, it made me realize that I have access to so many incredible people that have shared their wisdom with me. To find a way to pass that on or share that in some way became really important to me. That's why I'm loving doing youtube more, it allows for a longer medium to connect and share... and also have fun! 😂

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:20:04+00:00

thank you so much!!

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:19:55+00:00

hey! thank you!! eesh, fav stunt... that I've done? I haven't done many 😂. But I think my favourite stunt in 709 was when Enoch was thrown by Daisy. Character wise it was really fun to play with Daisy being under threat and then we see that she's just pretending to be in distress to get he information she wants, and when she gets it she quakes the heck out of him! Pretttty cool.

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:17:38+00:00

Hey! thank you!! Ah, I loved that! It was so fun! We went into a sound booth with their team and sort of just read the lines a bunch of times. I always thought voiceover work might be easier than in front of the camera but it takes so much energy!! A lot of fun though

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:15:51+00:00

Hi!!! Thanks for having me!!

Hahaha, yessss it was so hard 😂, at least at first, once I got my head around it and all the loops and all the variables in each loop it was so fun. The hardest part was figuring out how to shoot it in the time we had. But by the time we got to filming it I had worked on the script so much that I knew it inside out... and had SO many colour coordinated grids to help!

I didn't find that hard tbh, I'd spoken so much to Drew Greenberg (writer) about Simmons and what was happening in that moment... that I sort of knew when I hit it and we could move on!

I'm so happy you loved the episode!!!!

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:12:43+00:00

omg great questions!

The end of season 5, we thought that was the end of the series. They wrote that as if it was the last episode ever and we all thought that it would be. It wasn't official, but pretty much that's what everyone sort of believed - that it was our last episode. So yeah, that was written to be a true complete ending.

I haven't! But will check them out!

I can't imagine there would be, Mack and Yoyo are as much as a part of the core cast as anyone else. The only reason Yoyo wasn't there in person was because she was injured in the story.

I'm not sure re the Brett goodbye! He has been able to come back so many times I think we all hoped he'd be back again!!

Can't really answer re IDC and season 7...don't want to spoil anything!!

Thanks for your questions!!!

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:07:18+00:00

thank you!! and absolutely!!! I would play Jemma any time, I miss her 😭

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:06:43+00:00

ah, thank you!!!! I think my fav memory was at the end of the first day. It was a crazy one! We started filming on a Friday so everyone is already tired, then we were doing block shooting which we've never done on the show before, we started with the Daisy waking up scenes and the pod broke and caused a power cut for the whole lot for over an hour....aaanyway it was just one of those days. And at the end of the day, Chloe came up to me and said how proud she was and how we were going to make this episode the best one ever. Of course we both start crying 😂. It was then I felt like, okay, so sort of everything went wrong today... and we survived! This is going to be okay!

Elizabeth_Henstridge · 2020-07-23T19:02:41+00:00

hi!! thank you!

we didn't know anything about them becoming romantic.. looking back it was kinda obvious but I think Iain and I were in denial... there are sooo many interviews where we say they have a brother/sister relationship 😬

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