From Westeros to… overly stereotyped Ireland?
Iwan Rheon is all set to join the cast of the TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s fantasy series American Gods for its upcoming third season.
And he’s set to leave behind the nastiness of Ramsay Bolton – who he played on Game of Thrones between 2013 and 2016 – for this new role, in which he’ll play a ‘charming, good-natured leprechaun’ who goes by the name Liam Doyle.
Seriously.
According to EW, Rheon’s latest character is introduced as someone trying to steer away from the cliched leprechaun image – ‘until he finds himself swept back into our world of gods, luck, and magic,’ that is.
This looks set to be Rheon’s most eye-catching role since he played, er, Adolf Hitler in an episode of the surreal Sky Arts comedy series Urban Myths in 2017.
Joining the Welsh actor on the cast list for American Gods season three – which has yet to receive an expected air date – is the one and only Marilyn Manson.
Manson will play the blood-thirsty Johan Wengren in the series, who happens to be lead singer of the fictional Viking death metal band Blood Death.
Viking death metal musicians and leprechauns getting involved in all kinds of magical shenanigans together? It could only be American Gods.
American Gods airs in the US on Starz and on Amazon Prime Video in the UK.
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