AMERICAN GODS Character Promos Spotlight Shadow & Laura Moon, Mr. Wednesday, And Mad Sweeney

New character promos for Starz's small-screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods have been released. Find out more about Shadow, his dead wife, mysterious boss, and a crazy leprechaun.

By MarkCassidy - Apr 06, 2017 06:04 PM EST

Filed Under: American Gods

As the premiere date for Starz's American Gods TV series draws closer, we have the first four of what will likely be a lot of character promos for you guys to take a look at.

The teasers focus on the show's main protagonists Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle), and his enigmatic new boss, Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane). We also get new looks at Shadow's late wife Laura (Emily Browning), and a coin-obsessed leprechaun named Mad Sweeney (Pablo Schreiber).

Check out the promos below and let us know if you're looking forward to American Gods in the comments section.

American Gods also stars Emily Browning as Laura Moon, Corbin Bernsen as Vulcan, Kristin Chenoweth as Easter, Pablo Schreiber as Mad Sweeney, Gillian Anderson as Media, Crispin Glover as Mr. World, Orlando Jones as Mr. Nancy, Dane Cook as Robbie, Jonathan Tucker as Low-Key Lyesmith, Yetide Badaki as Bilquis and Bruce Langley as the Technical Boy.

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Forthas - 4/6/2017, 6:34 PM

This looks wonderfully insane. Looking forward to checking it out. Gaphic novels are now the prominent source of our modern screen mythologies. What a great time for CBM's.

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AMERICAN GODS Character Promos Spotlight Shadow & Laura Moon, Mr. Wednesday, And Mad Sweeney

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