Also joining the main cast will be Justin Vivian Bond (Desire), William Hope (Doctor John Dee), Mathew Horne (Hob Gadling), Reginald D. The Audible series Cast also includes Doctor Who's Arthur Darvill as William Shakespeare, Harry Potter actress Miriam Margolyes as Despair, War for the Planet of the Apes and Lord of the Rings legend Andy Serkis as Matthew the Raven, and Venom star Riz Ahmed as the nightmare The Corinthian. The rest of the cast includes Michael Sheen as the devilishly popular DC character Lucifer and Kingsman: The Secret Service star Taron Egerton as the paranormal investigator John Constantine. His sister, Death, will be played by Thor: The Dark World and Big Mouth star Kat Dennings. James McAvoy takes on the lead role of Morpheus the Lord of Dreams, a god-like entity accidentally summoned from his slumber by an occultist trying to bring forth Morpheus's sibling Death. All of a sudden, I'm standing here in the studio, and Michael Sheen's mouth is open, and David Bowie's voice is coming out. I forget he is also one of the greatest impressionists. I think of Michael Sheen as one of the greatest actors of his generation, which he is. 'Michael was a huge fan of the comics, reading them since he was a kid, so Michael knew that Lucifer had been drawn as the young David Bowie. Neil Gaiman then went on to also discuss the casting of Good Omens star Michael Sheen as Lucifer, who Gaiman describes as 'one of the greatest actors of his generation.' Having said that, all these episodes that I'd heard in rough form with other people playing Morpheus hadn't worked.' So we wound up having to get recording equipment over to his place, and Dirk had to direct him over Zoom.

Then that ended up getting delayed, because the day they were meant to go into the studio, the world went into lockdown. But once we did cast James, he wasn't available until I think March, so we were going to record everything without him and then put him in. 'We had to start recording before we had a Morpheus. The Sandman remains one of seminal author Neil Gaiman's best works, and with the Audible take on the story now available, Gaiman has been discussing the portrayal of the ethereal main character, voiced in the project by Split and X-Men: First Class star James McAvoy.

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