{"id":107457,"date":"2019-03-20T13:20:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=107457"},"modified":"2019-03-20T13:20:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:20:49","slug":"dcs-titans-season-2-casts-chella-man-as-mute-hero-jericho-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/dcs-titans-season-2-casts-chella-man-as-mute-hero-jericho-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"DC&#8217;s Titans Season 2 casts Chella Man as mute hero Jericho Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the news that DC&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>Titans<\/strong><\/em> has cast Esai Morales as supervillain Deathstroke, the show has now announced that it has also found his son.<\/p>\n<p>Artist and social media influencer Chella Man has been cast in the role of Deathstroke&#8217;s son Jericho Wilson, a character that was created for the DC Comics universe in\u00a0<em><strong>Tales Of The Teen Titans #43\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Marv Wolfman and George\u00a0P\u00e9rez.<\/p>\n<p>The character of Jericho is described as follows: &#8220;Son of the infamous DC villain Deathstroke (played by Esai Morales), Joseph Wilson is the Titan known as Jericho. Mute after his father failed to rescue him from having his vocal cords severed by assassins, Jericho has the unique ability to possess anyone just by making eye contact. This gentle natured yet proud hero has proven himself a formidable Titan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_107459\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107459\" style=\"width: 1220px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JerichoTitans_marquee_5c904d70144719.60964589.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107459\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JerichoTitans_marquee_5c904d70144719.60964589.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1220\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JerichoTitans_marquee_5c904d70144719.60964589.jpg 1220w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JerichoTitans_marquee_5c904d70144719.60964589-600x407.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JerichoTitans_marquee_5c904d70144719.60964589-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JerichoTitans_marquee_5c904d70144719.60964589-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JerichoTitans_marquee_5c904d70144719.60964589-616x418.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1220px) 100vw, 1220px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jericho<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The series will see Man make his acting debut. On social media, Man has slowly gained a following through posting candid videos, blogs and art about his gender transition, and his experiences being deaf, genderqueer, Chinese and Jewish.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em><strong>Titans\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>cast is made up of\u00a0Brenton Thwaites as Dick Grayson\/Robin, Anna Diop as Starfire, Teagan Croft as Raven, Ryan Potter as Beast Boy, Alan Ritchson as Hawk, Minka Kelly as Dove and Lindsey Gort as police detective Amy Rohrbach.<\/p>\n<p>Read the synopsis for the series here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>Titans<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0follows young heroes from across the DC Universe as they come of age and find belonging in a gritty take on the classic Teen Titans franchise. Dick Grayson and Rachel Roth, a special young girl possessed by a strange darkness, get embroiled in a conspiracy that could bring Hell on Earth. Joining them along the way are the hot-headed Starfire and loveable Beast Boy. Together they become a surrogate family and team of heroes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Titans\u00a0<\/em>Season 1\u00a0is now streaming on Netflix UK. Get all the latest superhero news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DC&#8217;s Titans has cast deaf and trans actor Chella Man as hero Jericho in Season 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":107458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[4020],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/titans-season-2-finds-its-jericho-in-deaf-activist-chella-man-1024x576.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}