Henry Zaga has now closed his deal to play the mutant Sunspot in the upcoming X-Men franchise installment, New Mutants.
The next project from The Fault in Our Stars director Josh Boone, New Mutants is currently in the final stages of assembling its primary cast together, ahead of filming beginning in July.
Like Zaga, Sunspot is from Brazil in the X-Men comic book universe, with the character having made his comic page debut back in the early 1980s (like most of the best-known New Mutants characters).
Zaga, who plays Tony’s boyfriend Brad in the first season of the hit Netflix TV series 13 Reasons Why, had been rumored for the role of Sunspot (aka.