With production on the third season of American Gods in full swing, EW is reporting that Danny Trejo (Machete), Julia Sweeney (Shrill) and rapper Wale have all signed on for roles in Starz’s TV adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novel.
Trejo is set to portray one of the many forms of Mr. World (Crispin Glover), with Sweeney as Ann-Marie Hinzelman, “the disarmingly warm one-woman welcome wagon for Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) when he arrives” in the small town of Lakeside, and Wale as “fiery, silver-tongued Orisha named Chango, an important link to Shadow’s unexplored past.”
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Other new additions to the cast of American Gods for its third season include Lela Loren (Power), Blythe Danner (Will & Grace), Dominique Jackson (Pose), Eric Johnson (Vikings), Herizen Guardolia (The Get Down), rocker Marilyn Manson and newcomer Ashley Reyes.
Season 3 of American Gods will premiere on Starz in 2020 and is set to follow “Shadow as he attempts to break away and assert himself as his own man, setting down roots in the idyllic snowy town of Lakeside, WI, where he’ll uncover a dark secret while exploring questions of his own divinity. Guided on this spiritual journey by the gods of his black ancestors, the Orishas, Shadow must decide exactly who he is: a god seeking veneration or a man in service of the ‘we’.”
