{"id":108075,"date":"2019-05-01T11:57:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T10:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=108075"},"modified":"2019-05-01T11:57:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T10:57:28","slug":"westworld-season-3-adds-vincent-cassel-as-a-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/westworld-season-3-adds-vincent-cassel-as-a-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"Westworld Season 3 adds Vincent Cassel as a villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Black Swan\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>actor Vincent Cassel has joined the cast of HBO&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>Westworld\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Season 3, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/04\/westworld-vincent-cassel-cast-season-3-hbo-series-villain-series-regular-1202604783\/\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The French actor, who is also known for his roles in the likes of\u00a0<em><strong>La Haine<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Ocean&#8217;s Twelve<\/strong><\/em> and\u00a0<em><strong>Eastern Promises<\/strong><\/em>, is entering the show as a series regular and is reportedly set to play a villain. Character details beyond that are being kept under wraps for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re incredibly excited to work with Vincent Cassel,&#8221; said\u00a0co-creators\u00a0Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. &#8220;We\u2019ve been longtime fans of his and are thrilled for him to join the <em><strong>Westworld<\/strong><\/em> team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cassel joins\u00a0<em><strong>Westworld\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>newcomers Aaron Paul and Lena Waithe, as well as returning stars Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores Abernathy, Thandie Newton as Maeve Millay, Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe, Katja Herbers as Emily Grace,\u00a0Gustaf Skarsg\u00e5rd as Karl Strand, Jonathan Tucker as Major Craddock, Ed Harris as the Man in Black and Anthony Hopkins as Robert Ford.<\/p>\n<p>Production on Season 3 has already started but the season is not expected to air on HBO until 2020.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Westworld<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is based on the film written by Michael Crichton. Kilter Films and Bad Robot Production produce the series in association with Warner Bros Television. JJ Abrams, Athena Wickham, Richard J Lewis and Ben Stephenson all serve as executive producers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get all the latest sci-fi news with every issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Swan&#8217;s Vincent Cassel has joined the cast of Westworld Season 3 as a new villain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":108088,"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":[3911],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/03vincentcassel2-facebookJumbo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108075"}],"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=108075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}