‘Loki’ Series Adds ‘The Morning Show’ Star Gugu Mbatha-Raw To Cast

The cast of the Disney+ series Loki is starting to take good shape. The Morning Show star Gugu Mbatha-Raw has come on board the series and will be joining the god of mischief and everyone’s favorite trickster in a yet undisclosed role.

Mbatha-Raw is the latest addition to the cast lead by Tom Hiddleston. In addition to them, other confirmed cast members include Sophia Di Martino and Owen Wilson. Although details of Mbatha-Raws character are being tightly kept under wraps as per usual of any Marvel production, many believe that she will be playing a prominent character like the female lead according to Deadline.

Mbatha-Raw recently appeared in Apple’s flagship streaming series The Morning Show as a series regular of its first season. She also starred alongside Edward Norton in 2019’s Motherless Brooklyn. Her other film projects include A Wrinkle in Time, The Cloverfield Paradox, Beauty and the Beast, and Concussion. On the small screen, Mbatha-Raw starred in the Emmy award-winning Black Mirror episode San Junipero. She also lent her voice to the character of Seladon in Netflix’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. 

The actress will next be seen in the fantasy drama Come Away alongside Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo. She’s also starring in the British comedy-drama Misbehaviour alongside another ensemble cast including Keira Knightley and Jessie Buckley.

Disney unveiled a teaser for Loki in an ad in last week’s Superbowl alongside teasers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and WandaVision. Unlike the other two, however, Loki yet doesn’t have an official logline. The only clue fans have as of the moment is that the show will chronicle the voyages of Hiddleston’s mercurial trickster as he pops up at different points of human history. The god of mischief was last seen in Avenger’s Endgame when he whisked off with the tesseract. So, fans can expect the more villainy Loki rather than his more righteous version that died in Endgame.

Filming is currently underway for the series. And it is slated for a 2021 release. Loki will reportedly tie into the events of Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness along with WandaVision. It was created by Rick and Morty writer Michael Waldron. Kevin Feige will be executive producing together with director Kate Herron.