The Sandman Season 2 Photos Reveal First Look at 2 Characters

New photographs from The Sandman Season 2 have been launched, providing followers their first look at Jack Gleeson‘s Puck and Barry Sloane‘s Destruction.

The second and remaining season of the acclaimed Netflix collection based mostly on the eponymous comedian by Neil Gaiman will introduce a number of new characters, similar to Gleeson’s Puck, in addition to the remaining Endless siblings — Destiny, Delirium, and Prodigal (a.okay.a. Destruction) — the latter of whom deserted his realm and his familial obligations to the opposite Endless a very long time in the past.

Entertainment Weekly shared the primary have a look at Gleeson and Sloane as Puck and Destruction, respectively, and spoke with Allan Heinberg about casting the 2 roles, with the showrunner praising the actors for the depth they dropped at their respective characters. A brand new have a look at Tom Sturridge as Dream was additionally unveiled.

What did The Sandman showrunner say about Puck and Destruction?

“He brings sexiness to it and mischief and psychology and heart,” Heinberg mentioned on Gleeson’s Puck. “I have a tendency to write to the actors playing these parts, and I think our Puck is a very different Puck from the comics, but also from the Puck that I would’ve written for any other actor.” He will seem in Season 2’s adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a single-issue story from the comics in regards to the creation of the basic Shakespeare play of the identical title.

For Destruction, Heinberg teased that a lot of Sloane’s dialogue as Destruction was pulled straight from the comics. “He has such a lightness of touch, and he’s such a loving human. That’s really what we were looking for in casting this role,” the showrunner shared. “You think of Destruction, especially as he’s presented in the comics during The Song of Orpheus story, as the ultimate destroyer of worlds. His story in the comic, and in our show as well, is actually a soul that’s in conflict. He wants to create, he doesn’t want to destroy. So you need an actor who is so full of love and so full of joy and yet looks like the archetypal soldier.”

Besides the aforementioned actors, new additions to The Sandman for its second season embrace Adrian Lester as Destiny, Esmé Creed-Miles as Delirium, Laurence O’Fuarain as Thor, Freddie Fox as Loki, Clive Russell as Odin, Ruairi O’Connor as Dream’s son Orpheus, Ann Skelly as Nuala, Douglas Booth as Cluracan, Indya Moore as Wanda, and Steve Coogan because the voice of Barnabas the canine.

The Sandman Season 2 will premiere on Netflix with its first six episodes on July 3, 2025, adopted by its final 5 episodes on July 24, 2025.

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