American Gods’ Ricky Whittle and Yetide Badaki Tease the Orisha’s Role in the Game-Changing Season Finale

RELATED STORIES Sunday’s American Gods finale will find Shadow Moon holding an extremely physically taxing vigil for his dead father Mr. Wednesday, who also happens to be the Norse deity Odin. There’s no assurance that Shadow, whose mother was a Black woman with no celestial powers to speak of, will even make it through the […]

American Gods Season 2: Ricky Whittle Talks Shadow's New Feline Friend, a Bilquis Meet-Up, Laura and More

A new character is going to think American Gods‘ Shadow Moon is just purrrfect when the Starz drama returns for Season 2. Or, as Ricky Whittle put it when he stopped by TVLine’s Comic-Con interview suite, “It’s so hard to keep this PG and keep this clean, but Shadow may have some kind of relationship with […]

‘American Gods’ star Ricky Whittle describes his ‘crazy’ 16 auditions for the coveted role

Starz Ricky Whittle is the lead of potentially the biggest new franchise on television, “American Gods,” which premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. on Starz. But the road to landing the coveted starring role on the series wasn’t easy. “I was the first cast. I went through five months of a crazy process,” Whittle told Business Insider […]