Loki season 2 has added Game of Thrones star Kate Dickie to the cast alongside leading man Tom Hiddleston and others. The news comes late in the production cycle for the highly anticipated follow-up season.

The Disney Plus show Loki follows the adventures and mishaps of the titular character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the show’s first season, an alternate version of Loki finds himself at the mercy of the Time Variance Authority, a bureaucratic temporal law enforcement agency intent on punishing him for his misuse of the Tessaract unless he helps the organization repair the time stream and serve some greater good. The series was praised with an emphasis on the performances and helped to flesh out the character of Loki, one of the MCU characters who have changed the most since his introduction.

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A report from Deadline revealed that actress Dickie joined the cast of Loki season 2 with little fanfare to tip off fans to the addition. Dickie is best known in recent times for her portrayal of crazed widow Lysa Arynn in HBO's ultra-successful Game of Thrones series, which spawned an equally well-recieved successor in House of the Dragon. While precious little is known about the second season of Loki and Dickie's role specifically, it is reported that she will be playing a villain.

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Production has mostly concluded on Loki season 2, which features Tara Strong, Owen Wilson, Sophia Di Martino, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Eugene Cordero, and Rafael Casal. They join Hiddleston and The Good Place's Eugene Cordero, who has been promoted to series regular for the second season. The second season is headed up by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, who both take on the role of directors and executive producers alongside head writer Eric Martin, with Michael Waldron and Hiddleston also working on the writing.

The inclusion of Dickie in the cast is exciting for fans, more so because she has shown a talent for playing a character who audiences can hate while still maintaining depth and a certain measure of compassion within the viewing audience. Depending on the endpoint of the show's second season, there might even be a big screen appearance on the cards for Dickie, as Loki fits quite well within Phase FIve's multiverse theme. However, this might not play out well, as there is a chance that Marvel Studios might have trouble integrating TV characters into movies.

Loki season 1 is now available on Disney Plus.

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Source: Deadline