The Grammy Award nominee is thought to have bagged himself the role after a Twitter conversation with Sutter last year, which lead to him recording a song for Sons of Anarchy. The 24-year-old music sensation has landed his first major television role on Kurt Sutter’s upcoming FX drama The Bastard Executioner.
Advertisement
Loosening his grip on the guitar: Ed Sheeran moves to the small screen for The Bastard Executioner.
The series, The Bastard Executioner, is set in the early 14th century and follows a knight in King Edward I’s army who becomes a journeyman executioner. Sutter, too, will appear in the hotly anticipated period drama, as he once did on Sons and, prior to that, The Shield.
As The Hollywood Reporter notes, this is not the first time that Sheeran and Sutter have collaborated together. He will star as Sir Cormac, a protege of a church elder who is surprisingly unsafe.
Sheeran confirmed that he was taking on a recurring acting role at the start of the month, but was tight-lipped about what it would entail, only sharing that the show was “really, really dark” and “gruesome”.
He previously made a surprise guest appearance in a live episode of the NBC series Undateable this past spring.
The US cable network FX has commissioned a first season of 10 one-hour episodes for The Bastard Executioner.
Advertisement
Not only is this some wonderful casting, it also is a reunion for Sheeran and Sutter!
