Exclusive: Ricky Whittle Talks Season 3 Of Starz’s American Gods
Premiering Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 8 PM ET/PT on STARZ in the U.S., as well as internationally on Amazon Prime Video, beginning Monday, January 11 is the third season of the mythical STARZ Original series “American Gods.”
“American Gods” is the epic story of an inevitable war building between the Old Gods of mythology and our New Gods of technology. Ricky Whittle (“The 100,” Nappily Ever After) stars as ex-con Shadow Moon, a man pulled into the service of the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, played by Ian McShane (“Deadwood," John Wick) — only to discover that not only is his charismatic but un-trustable boss actually the Norse All-Father god Odin, he’s also...Shadow’s father. In Season Three, Shadow angrily pushes this apparent destiny away, and settles in the idyllic snowy town of Lakeside, Wisconsin — to make his own path, guided by the gods of his black ancestors, the Orishas. However, he’ll soon discover that this town's still waters run deep, and dark, and bloody, and that you don’t get to simply reject being a god. The only choice — and a choice you have to make — is what kind of god you’re going to be.
“American Gods” also stars Emily Browning (“Sucker Punch,” “The Affair”) as Laura Moon, Yetide Badaki (“Aquarius,” “This Is Us”) as Bilquis, Bruce Langley (“Deadly Waters”) as Technical Boy, Omid Abtahi (“Mandalorian,” “Damien”) as ‘Salim,’ Ashley Reyes (“Night Has Settled”) as ‘Cordelia,’ Crispin Glover (“Back to the Future”) as Mr. World, Demore Barnes (“12 Monkeys,” “Waco”) as Mr. Ibis, Devery Jacobs (“Cardinal,” “The Order”) as Sam Black Crow, Blythe Danner (“Huff,” “Will & Grace”) as Demeter, Marilyn Manson (“Salem,” “Sons of Anarchy”) as Johan Wengren, Julia Sweeney (“Shrill,” “Saturday Night Live”) as Hinzelmann, Iwan Rheon (“Game of Thrones,” “InHumans”) as Liam Doyle,
Danny Trejo (Machete) as Mr. World, Peter Stormare (“Fargo,” “Prison Break”) as Czernobog, Denis O’Hare (“True Blood,” Dallas Buyers Club) as Tyr, Lela Loren (“Power,” “Altered Carbon”) as Marguerite, Dominique Jackson (“Pose”) as Ms. World, Wale (American Honey, “Godfather of Harlem”) as Chango, Herizen Guardiola (“The Get Down”) as Oshun, and Eric Johnson (“The Girlfriend Experience,” “Vikings”) as Chad Mulligan.
BlackFilmandTV.com recently caught up with Whittle as he spoke about the upcoming season and working with Ian McShane.