After that controversial first look, God of War TV show casts its Freya

The God of War TV show has found its Freya.

Sonya Walger will play Freya in the Prime Video show. Walger is probably best known for appearances in For All Mankind and Lost.

Freya is Odin's ex-wife, one-time Queen of the Valkyries, and a Vanir goddess capable of great magic. Exiled at the end of her marriage to Odin, she lives a lonely, reclusive life on Midgard, where humans call her the Witch of the Woods.

Walger joins Ryan Hurst as Kratos, Mandy Patinkin as Odin, Teresa Palmer as Sif, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Thor, Callum Vinson as Atreus, and Ed Skrein as Baldur.

The casting comes after a controversial first look at the show, which showed Hurst's Kratos and Vinson's Atreus in full costume. The image was so game-accurate that it ended up looking a little uncanny, and it didn't go down all that well.

"I'm sure everybody's trying real hard, it's so dumb," God of War creator David Jaffe said of the first look. "Kratos in this pose with this expression, not the guy's face, but this expression, he just looks stupid. If you're going to reveal, to most people, a brand new character that you hope is going to carry your series, for the first time, and they've never really seen this before, and this is the way you introduce them?"

Strangely, despite the first look being official, Hurst later shared a message on social media suggesting it wasn't representative of the show: "Don't believe everything you see on the internet, kids."

The God of War TV show doesn't yet have a release date. While you wait, check out our guide to all the most exciting upcoming TV shows for everything else that's in store.