UPDATE: Clive Russell & Richard Brake’s Roles In ‘Thor: The Dark World’ Revealed
Prinicipal photography on Thor: The Dark World is currently underway and according to Shepherd Management Limited casting agency, not one but two of their clients have signed on for minor undisclosed roles in Alan Taylor’s sequel. Deadline has now revealed what roles the actors will be playing in the film.
The first being British actor Clive Russell who has appeared in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes and its 2011 sequel, as well as numerous British television series, and he was recently cast as Ser Brynden Tulley the Blackfish in HBO’s third season of Game Of Thrones. Clive Russell will portray the god of war, Tyr, which is the all-father Odin’s other biological son and older brother of the titular God of thunder in the comics.
The second addition is Richard Brake, who is probably best known for playing the DC character Joe Chill in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins. The actor has also appeared in Hannibal Rising, Water For Elephants, & Outpost.The actor will play a captain of an elite group of Asgardian warriors that appeared in the first film, known as Einherjars.
Thor: The Dark World hits theaters November 8, 2013.