His most recent TV work was for HBO’s miniseries Chernobyl, for which he landed a Supporting Actor Emmy nomination, so this will be quite a next step, especially since he’ll next be seen on the big screen in Denis Villeneuve’s highly anticipated Dune remake.
It’s definitely a blessing of sorts to have him joining the Star Wars universe via the cast of the Cassian Andor series.
The patriarch of a Swedish family of actors, Stellan Skarsgård has long been a dependable addition to any production, be it art house drama or genre-centric blockbuster.
Skarsgård does seem to already have a good relationship with Disney, having portrayed astrophysicist Erik Selvig across four different Marvel movies, so here’s hoping he’ll play someone who factors heavily in Cassian Andor’s main story.