Meet the handsome @WillTudor1, who will play Sebastian on #Shadowhunters. We are so excited to welcome you to the Shadow Fam! 🎉 pic.twitter.com/vOGQaAXETe
— Shadowhunters (@ShadowhuntersTV) January 26, 2017
Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Former Game of Thrones actor Will Tudor has been cast in Freeform's ongoing supernatural series, Shadowhunters.
Announced on Twitter Thursday with a video featuring Tudor, the actor joins the series inspired by The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare as signature character Sebastian Verlac.
"The scripts are looking brilliant and I'm so excited to see what you guys think of it," Tudor mentions in the clip.
"He's so good in this part," showrunner Todd Slavkin says of Tudor portraying Sebastian in an interview with TV Line.
"When he taped, he had an American accent, which was really interesting," Slavkin continues about how the 29-year-old auditioned for the part. "But when we saw his reel, saw him on Game of Thrones and Humans, then looked at our take on the character, we were like, 'Oh, you're from London. You're from the London Institute. Use your British accent.' And it works so well."
Tudor is set to make his debut starting in the latter half of its ongoing second season.
Shadowhunters, which follows the adventures of Shadowhunter Clary Fray (Katherine McNamara) as she discovers her heritage as a human-angel hybrid who hunt demons, airs Monday's at 8 p.m. on Freeform.
