In the anticipated new Disney Plus series HAWKEYE, Clint Barton returns to action after the events of Avengers: Endgame, teaming up with a younger archer, Kate Bishop and an adorable dog.

Desde Hollywood attended a virtual press conference that featured stars Jeremy Renner, Hailee Steinfeld, Vera Farmiga, Tony Dalton as well as director Rhys Thomas and executive producer and Marvel Studios president, Kevin Feige.

Read some highlights below and watch the first 2 episodes of HAWKEYE, when it premieres on Disney Plus on November 24th.

Thomas on the Matt Fraction’s comic run that served as inspiration:

“It’s such amazing source material. I think early on, talk was about that specific tone that that Fraction run has as a real lynchpin. I mean ultimately, it’s funny but again, as we’re saying about the show it’s also intimate and this amazing character study.”

Feige on doing a holiday story within the MCU, and including “Lucky the Pizza Dog”:

“This is fun because it is a Christmas story that is taking place during the holidays and it also is based on early discussions about a limited time period, about setting a series in, you know not quite real time but essentially in a six-day period: Six episodes. Six days. Will Clint make it home for Christmas?
If you’re going to do Clint and Kate, you have to do Lucky. That was pretty much a given.”

Renner on the relationship between these two main characters:

“You set up characters that can be polar opposites in a lot of ways but then they have a lot of congruent values and belief systems and skillsets and things like that. It’s a wonderfully complicated relationship or friendship or partnership, all these types of things. You can put all kinds of labels on it. I think it’s a really dynamic, dynamic relationship. I’m excited to see it all.”

Steinfeld on what Kate Bishop sees in Clint Barton:

“There’s a really true friendship there and an understanding. Kate sees Clint as someone, despite his past, as someone who wants to do good and wants to help people and that’s all she wants to do in life. And she’s inspired by him and motivated by him and wants to be on his level and is very over eager and he puts up with a lot. But she really delivers at the end of the day.”

Steinfeld on the possibility of a Young Avengers project in the future:

“This feels so crazy to me right now just sitting here with this group of people. I don’t want to get ahead of myself. I try and take everything one step at a time. I’m so grateful to be a part of this show and this universe and it’s only the beginning, the show’s not even out so I’m looking forward to that day.”

Renner Clint’s emotional state at this point in the MCU:

“I suppose it’s survivor guilt outside of just dealing with the loss. You know, there’s a lot of things that are lost. It’s addressed in this show which I think is beautifully intimate. It brings our characters closer together as well as the audience. There’s a lot of weight that’s carried. There might be a seemingly, veneer of grumpiness in this resting face, right? In the show. But ultimately it comes from just the weight and the horrors and the tragedies and loss that come with the game. Managing losses is the superhero game.”

Dalton on his character Jack Duquesne, who in the comics is known as Swordsman:

“He’s sort of a family friend and then he becomes in love with Eleanor Bishop and they have sort of a little bit of a relationship and you don’t really know where he’s coming from. You don’t want to give away too much, you know?
I took some fencing back in the day, I don’t know why. We did a whole bunch of stuff there with the stunts and everything. It was great. It was good, good fun.”

Farmiga on her passion for archery, and excitement for being part of this series:

“I love archery, just hands down. I am an archer. You guys don’t know this about me. My first job, I played an archer with Heath Ledger in a series called Roar, where I had my bow and arrow and I had my 40-pound pull-weight arrow. And I’m good at it, to be honest with you. So if I wasn’t going to be wielding that bow and arrow I just wanted to be next to someone with true grit.”

Farmiga on playing Eleanor Bishop, Steinfeld’s character’s mother:

“To be honest with you I have marveled at this young lady since that first movie. I also loved this, sort of this very delicate and complex maternal relationship. It is a tricky sport raising a successful daughter, especially when the daughter and the mom have different ideas of what that success means.”

Marvel Studios’ Hawkeye will be streaming on Disney+ starting with the first two episodes on November 24th.