"Secret Invasion" has a stacked cast, with Samuel L. Jackson returning to portray Nick Fury, former director of S.H.I.E.L.D., or the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division. It also stars Ben Mendelsohn as Talos, the leader of a Skrull sect; Smulders as Maria Hill, an ally of Fury; Martin Freeman as CIA agent Everett K. Ross; Don Cheadle as U.S. Air Force officer and Avenger James "Rhodey" Rhodes, also known as War Machine; and Kingsley Ben-Adir as the series' main antagonist. Emilia Clarke and Olivia Colman also appear, though their roles are being kept under wraps.