Celeb roundup: Maisie Williams spreads Christmas cheer, Sean Bean gets cancelled
By Dan Selcke
The year is almost up, but current and former Game of Thrones cast members remain busy as ever. Let’s start with some sad news: Legends, a TNT series that starred Sean Bean as an undercover FBI agent who struggles with his real identity after spending so much time posing as other people, has been cancelled. TNT renewed the show for a second season despite a middlingly reviewed inaugural year, but poor ratings in the second season earned the show the axe.
It’s a shame, since TNT went to the trouble of retooling the series between its first and second seasons, replacing much of the cast and focusing more on serialization. Still, it wasn’t enough. As Cinema Blend put it, “this is the rare occurrence of one of the actor’s projects dying before his character does.”
Elsewhere, things are a little cheerier. Maisie Williams will lend what someone at the BBC thinks must be her musical expertise to BBC Radio 1, which she’ll take over the broadcast from 5-6 p.m. on Christmas day to play her favorite songs.
I will be presenting a whole hour of my favourite music on Christmas Day!
— Maisie Williams (@Maisie_Williams) December 16, 2015
Catch me 5pm-6pm on @BBCR1
xo
She’ll be part of a Christmas day lineup that also includes the likes of One Direction and Demi Lovato. Williams is the only person in the lineup who doesn’t, y’know, do something musical for a living, so we’re not quite sure why she was chosen, but whatever. Spread that holiday cheer, Arya.
Speaking of Williams, we reported a while ago that she was in talks to play the lead role of Mary in a big screen adaptation of The Forest of Hands and Teeth, a young adult fiction novel about a zombie apocalypse (I’m not sure why Hollywood didn’t think to combine those two things sooner, to be honest). She’s since been cast officially, and author Carrie Ryan is thrilled with the pick. “She is amazing,” Ryan said of Mary. “I think her ability to be both fierce and vulnerable – I feel like that is the character of Mary.”
Who knows whether the young adult fiction craze might pop between now and the time The Forest of Hands and Teeth makes it into theaters, but if it takes off, it could provide nicely for Williams after Thrones is over. You can get an idea for what the movie may be like with this trailer for the book, because books have trailers now.
h/t Radio Times