Marvel’s Luke Cage is nearly done filling a major role.
Emmy winner Alfre Woodard is in final talks to join the upcoming Netflix series as a key villian.
According to EW, she’ll play a “powerful woman in local politics who will have an impact on Luke Cage’s life.”
Cage is played by Mike Colter (The Good Wife), and in the comics the character is imprisoned for a crime he did not commit and develops super strength. Which character Woodard plays from the original mythology—assuming she’s not portraying a wholly new creation—is not clear.
Woodard has 18 Emmy noms under her belt, along with arcs on ABC’s Desperate Housewives, HBO’s True Blood and TNT’s The Last Ship.
Luke Cage is expected to be the third entry in Netflix’s super-ambitious Marvel series master plan:
Luke Cage is expected to release sometime in 2016.