Natalie Dormer joins Penny Dreadful sequel, and more celebrity news
By Ariba Bhuvad
Game of Thrones fans, have you been missing some Natalie Dormer in your life? If so, you can now look forward to seeing her on Showtime’s Penny Dreadful sequel, per TV Line. Dormer is set to play a character named Magda, a supernatural demon of sorts who can transform into anyone she chooses. If only Margaery Tyrell could have had this power in Game of Thrones, imagine the disasters she could have averted and created!
Sometimes what’s dead doesn’t always remain.#PennyDreadful returns to @Showtime with Penny Dreadful: City of Angels. Set in 1938 Los Angeles, this next chapter will explore a mix of the supernatural within a genuine historical backdrop infused with Mexican-American folklore. pic.twitter.com/2QzPnTPDTL
— Penny Dreadful (@SHO_Penny) November 1, 2018
Beloved Showtime series Penny Dreadful ended abruptly with its third season back in 2016. The new show is a spiritual successful of sorts called Penny Dreadful: City of Angels. It’s set in Los Angeles in the ’30s and will incorporate Mexican-American folklore.
The first series centered around a towering performance from Eva Green as the tortured, complex Vanessa Ives. Will Dormer have a similarly large role? However it shakes out, we’ll just be happy to have her back on our TV screens. Per Variety, Nathan Lane will also be part of the cast.
Speaking of Game of Thrones actors holding down franchises, the poster for X-Men: Dark Phoenix, starring Sophie Turner as Jean Grey, leaked:
The new #DarkPhoenix poster has arrived. Trailer tomorrow night! pic.twitter.com/gMXLiZTUwD
— X-Men Movies (@XMenMovies) February 26, 2019
And a trailer came out not long afterward:
Get it, Sophie Turner.
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And while we wait for all of that, let’s check in with a few other Game of Thrones alum (they’re all alum now, ugh). Kit Harington, aka King in the North Jon Snow, paid Manchester United a visit and snagged his very own personalized jersey:
From one King in the North to another. 👑
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) February 25, 2019
Great to welcome #GameOfThrones star and #MUFC fan Kit Harington to Old Trafford on Sunday. 🐺 pic.twitter.com/0qZzhXgEm4
You don’t know nothing John snow .. great to meet the legend @Kit_Haringtcn @GameOfThrones @ManUtd #gameofthrones #got #johnsnow pic.twitter.com/6tLdUvse1r
— Paul Pogba (@paulpogba) February 25, 2019
How cute does he look?!
Harington wasn’t the only Game of Thrones vet at the game. John Bradley (Sam Tarly) reunited with his Night’s Watch brother:
"Jon Snow and Sam Tarley reunited last night in Manchester :D from freefolk"
Finally, our very own Jaime Lannister, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, will be heading to Los Angeles to partake in Geffen Playhouse’s adaptation of the iconic Macbeth, per The New York Times. Who will he be playing? Macbeth himself, of course.
The play is set to run from Nov. 5th to Dec. 8th. More information is available here!
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