‘Swamp Thing’ Casts Crystal Reed As Abby Arcane, Maria Sten As Liz Tremayne
Crystal Reedjust can’t stop falling in love with supernatural beasts. The formerTeen Wolfstar is moving on to another supernatural property with the DC Universe’sSwamp ThingTV series produced byJames Wan’s Atomic Monster.
TheSwamp Thingcast has tapped Reed as the female lead and the titular creature’s frequent love interest, Abby Arcane. She’ll be joined byMaria Sten, who has been cast opposite Reed as Abby’s childhood friend Liz Tremayne.
Deadlinereportsthat Crystal Reed and Maria Sten are joining theSwamp Thingscast as Abby Arcane and Liz Tremayne, respectively.
Reed plays the female lead in the DC Universe streaming series, which brings the characters created byLen WeinandBernie Wrightsonto life. Described as “smart and caring,” Abigail “Abby” Arcane is a CDC doctor with “a strong sense of empathy puts her at the center of a horrific life-threatening epidemic in her hometown, where she faces emotional demons from her past.” Abby Arcane will be the show’s pseudo-protagonist, following her character as she investigates a seemingly deadly swamp-born virus in a small Louisana town, “but soon discovers that the swamp holds mystical and terrifying secrets. When unexplainable and chilling horrors emerge from the murky marsh, no one is safe,” Deadline writes.
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The longtime love interest of the Earth Elemental creature in the DC Comics, Abby Arcane is frequently portrayed as a woman with natural white hair, with the psychic powers of empathy, telepathy and telekinesis. However, it seems like the DC Universe will be going for a more grounded and gritty approach, reimagining Abby as a plucky CDC doctor. It’s a role that Reed will probably take to swimmingly, having starred inTeen Wolffor three seasons as the fiercely independent love interest of a teen werewolf — who happens to be a werewolf hunter. Her impressive performance as Allison Argent proved that she deserved to carry a series of her own, andSwamp Thingseems like it will finally give her that. And Reed is no stranger to the DC Universe, having recently come off a season-long run on Fox’sGothamas Sofia Falcone.
Meanwhile, Sten (Channel Zero)is set to play Liz Tremayne, a close childhood friend of Abby’s and a reporter for the local paper who moonlights as a bartender for her father’s roadhouse bar. She’s described as having a “no-nonsense attitude” that “belies a deep compassion for her friends and family as she sets out in her uncompromising quest to expose the secrets that threaten her beloved hometown.”
Swamp Thingis set to premiere in2019on the DC Universe digital subscription service.
