As announced this past weekend at the show’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Bryan Fuller’s American Gods series has added actress Kristin Chenoweth as the character “Easter.”
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In the series, Easter is the Germanic goddess of the dawn. Chenoweth is a devout Christian herself, but she joked at the panel that “Easter is very pissed that Jesus took her holiday.” This is a reunion of sorts for Fuller and Chenoweth, as the two previously worked together on the critically-acclaimed series Pushing Daisies. Apart from Chenoweth, other frequent Bryan Fuller collaborators that will be appearing on American Gods include Gillian Anderson (Hannibal) as Media and Jonathan Tucker (Hannibal, High Moon) as Low Key Lyesmith.
American Gods is described by the network as follows:
When Shadow Moon is released from prison, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday and a storm begins to brew. Little does Shadow know, this storm will change the course of his entire life. Left adrift by the recent, tragic death of his wife, and suddenly hired as Mr. Wednesday’s bodyguard, Shadow finds himself in the center of a world that he struggles to understand. It’s a world where magic is real, where the Old Gods fear both irrelevance and the growing power of the New Gods, like Technology and Media. Mr. Wednesday seeks to build a coalition of Old Gods to defend their existence in this new America, and reclaim some of the influence that they’ve lost. As Shadow travels across the country with Mr. Wednesday, he struggles to accept this new reality, and his place in it.
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