Douglas Booth, Ruairi O'Connor & More Cast In 'The Sandman' Season 2, Roles Revealed

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Additional casting for the upcoming second season of The Sandman has been revealed! Netflix has announced several new cast members who will be joining the show for it’s new season, including Douglas Booth and Ruairi O’Connor.

The series, based on the DC Comic series by Neil Gaimain, the Sandman, aka Dream — the powerful cosmic being who controls all our dreams — is unexpectedly captured and held prisoner for over a century, he must journey across different worlds and timelines to fix the chaos his absence has caused. Keep reading to find out more… Season two will be pulled from the collections Seasons of the Mist and Brief Lives. “Each of these characters is as powerful as Dream — nearly as clever — and far more ruthless,” showrunner Allan Heinberg shared in a statement with TUDUM. “Together, they will ensnare Dream in a web of palace intrigue, glamour, demon battles, and spider-sex.

None of which Dream is prepared for; all of which transform him into a far more dangerous Dream of the Endless.” Find out who Douglas and Ruairi will be playing below, and who else is joining the season two cast… Ruairi O’Connor as Orpheus, a poet, musician, oracle, and the only child of Dream and the muse, Calliope (last seen in The Sandman, Episode 11).

Orpheus is an idealistic, romantic, young man — and very much his father’s son — until tragedy strikes and reveals to him the true nature of love. Freddie Fox as Loki, the god of chaos.