Marvel has announced that actor/producer Rafael Casal will be joining the cast of Loki for the show’s second season on Disney Plus. Though excited MCU fans are bursting with excitement about what role Casal will play in the upcoming season, details regarding the new cast addition have so far been kept under wraps.
Loki, which first premiered in 2021, features Tom Hiddleston as Loki, a familiar MCU villain facing a new challenge after stealing the Tesseract. Taking place after the events of Avengers: Endgame, Loki follows an alternate version of Loki who stole the Tesseract in 2012 and is plucked out of time and brought before the mysterious Time Variance Authority, or TVA, who presents him with a choice: either be erased from existence due to his status as a “time-variant,” or help fix the timeline and stop the mysterious figure called He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors). Loki, along with other variants of himself like Kid Loki (Jack Veal), Classic Loki (Richard E. Grant), Boastful Loki (DeObia Oparei), and Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino), must work to save the timeline from He Who Remains and himself from meeting the dark fate that lies in his own future.
What We Know about Rafael Casal in ‘Loki’
Season one of Loki first premiered on Disney Plus on June 9th, 2021; the six-episode season concluded with the episode “For All Time. Always” on July 14th, 2021, and during the end credits of the episode, it was announced that Loki would return for a second season. According to Deadline, this makes it the first Marvel series on Disney Plus to be renewed for another season. Not much else is known about the show’s second season, given Marvel’s time-honored tradition of keeping potential spoilers under lock and key, but newly released set photos show Rafael Casal on the set of Loki next to Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson, who plays Mobius M. Mobius in the series.
📸NEW: Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson on the set of season 2 of Loki. pic.twitter.com/TSrYUTPoYM
— Best of Tom Hiddleston (@bestoftwh) July 13, 2022
Despite his inclusion in the new photos, not much is known about what role Casal could be playing in the upcoming season of Loki – some online theorists have guessed that he could be playing Zaniac, a murderous Marvel villain known for possessing people, but nothing has been confirmed by Marvel yet. Rafael Casal’s previous roles include Miles in Blindspotting (2018), which was a collaboration with Daveed Diggs, as well as Kyle Contreras in Bad Education (2019) and himself in Def Poetry between 2004 and 2007.
Season one of Loki is currently available on Disney Plus. Further information on season two, including a release date and details on the newest cast additions, has not yet been released.