Ray Stevenson (Rome, Dexter, Thor) has joined the cast of Starz’s Black Sails as the iconic pirate Blackbeard. Stevenson will play Blackbeard (aka Edward Teach) in season three of the action series starring Toby Stephens, Hannah New, Luke Arnold, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Tom Hopper, Zach McGowan, Clara Paget, and Toby Schmitz.
Season two’s finale will air on March 28, 2015 at 9pm ET/PT, and season three, which will air in 2016, is currently shooting in South Africa.
Announcing Stevenson’s casting, Starz released the following info about Blackbeard’s involvement in Black Sails: “One of the most notorious pirates to have ever lived, ‘Edward Teach’ (‘Blackbeard’) returns to settle some unfinished business, but a great deal has changed during his absence, and he will have to disrupt cemented alliances and challenge new ones to achieve the impossible.”
Watch the season three teaser:
