Marvel has announced the first piece of casting for the second season of its X-Men TV series The Gifted, with Empire’s Grace Byers signing on to portray the Hellfire Club member Reeva.
The official description describes Reeva as “smart, charming, authoritative, elegant, beautiful woman who is ruthless in her efforts to fight for her people. She leads an elite band of followers and has a soft spot for her new recruits, but is still capable of extreme violence in defense of her vision.”
The character will align herself with of Polaris (Emma Dumont), Andy Strucker (Percy Hynes White) and the Frost sisters (Skyler Samuels) as the ‘Inner Circle’ of the Hellfire Club, and speculation is suggesting that Reeva is none other than Reeva Payge, a.k.a. the Hellfire Club’s Black Queen.
The Gifted is set to return for its second season later this year, and features a cast that also includes Amy Acker, Stephen Moyer, Natalie Alyn Lind, Sean Teale, Jamie Chung, Blair Redford, Hayley Lovitt, Jermaine Rivers and Coby Bell.
