Alias star Jennifer Garner, who plays secret agent Sydney Bristow, told
SCI FI Wire that the show's new direction means a whole different set
of issues for all of the show's characters. "It's really exciting,"
Garner said in an interview while promoting her upcoming film Daredevil.
"We've made kind of a big change. ... [Sydney's] no longer a double
agent. She's a CIA agent."
In addition, Sydney's former employer, the nefarious criminal agency
SD-6, has been destroyed. "All of these characters who worked at
SD-6 and thought they were working for the CIA and couldn't know that
it wasn't the CIA, that kind of stunted all those characters," Garner
added. "Now, ... the doors are blown open. The guy who plays my partner,
Carl Lumbly, who plays Marcus Dixon, he now has all this genius stuff
to play. 'You've betrayed me all this time.' What does this mean to his
marriage? What does this mean in his life?"
Garner added that Marshall, the techno nerd played by Kevin Weisman,
now works for the CIA. "He can be much more involved in the missions,"
she said.
As for her and co-star Michael Vartan, who plays CIA agent Michael Vaughn,
Garner said, "It means that Sydney and Vaughn can fall in love. And
we can explore what it means for two people at the beginning of a relationship
to realize, 'We're not just in the beginning of a relationship. We're
also CIA agents.' So they have to figure out what they're going to do
trust-wise. And they've both been trained to lie all their lives. So what's
that going to do to them? So it's going to be cool." Alias airs on
ABC Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Daredevil, in which Garner plays Elektra,
opens Feb. 14.
