Netflix has forged a recent pantheon of gods, faeries, speaking canine, and severed heads for its second season of the live-action Sandman—together with a brand new Thor, Loki, and Odin to rival Disney’s. Have a look:
A press launch reveals Sandman’s second season will introduce Ruarti O’Connor as Orpheus, Indya Moore as Wanda, Ann Skelly as Nuala, Douglas Sales space as Cluracan, Freddie Fox as Loki, Laurence O’Fuarain as Thor, Clive Russell as Odin, Jack Gleason as Puck, and Steve Coogan because the voice of Barnabas.
Orpheus, after all, is the son of Dream and Calliope—doomed to be a severed head for eternity following a run-in with the Maenads. Within the comics, John Constantine’s ancestor, Johanna, is tasked with retrieving the timeless head from an order of monks. As for Netflix’s Orpheus, O’Connor’s earlier roles embody Henry VIII in The Spanish Princess and Arne Cheyenne Johnson in The Conjuring: The Satan Made Me Do It. Indya Moore of Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom fame will play Wanda, a doomed character—so don’t get too connected. Ann Skelly from The Nevers is ready to play Nuala, the socially awkward housekeeper of the Dreaming, whereas Clive Sales space from Jupiter Ascending and Delight and Prejudice and Zombies will make an look as her drunken brother, Cluracan. Jack Gleason—higher referred to as King Joffrey from Recreation of Thrones—is Puck, the mischievous sprite of English mythology (a task the actor will seemingly knock out of the park), whereas Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge himself) rounds out the forged because the voice of Barnabas, a speaking German Shepherd owned by Destruction incarnate.
Notably, TV can even get pleasure from a brand new Loki in Freddie Fox, who’s at present showing on Home of the Dragon as Ser Gwayne Hightower. Loki’s nothing with out his better-liked brother, Thor, nevertheless, and so Laurence O’Fuarain of The Witcher: Blood Origins has the unenviable process of taking on the position from the MCU’s Chris Hemsworth. Scottish character actor Clive Russell (One Piece) will play their disenchanted father, Odin.
We’ll see how the brand new of us, in addition to the previously announced season two additions, stack as much as their heavily merchandized colleagues when The Sandman returns subsequent yr.
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