Egg On My Face: Arrow Casts Australian Actor For Ra’s al Ghul

Remember the other day when I was saying Arrow has a pretty great track record for hiring POCs for POC roles? Well, I guess we can’t have it all.

The Hollywood Reporter reveals Australian actor Matt Nable has landed the role previously played by Liam Neeson in Christopher Nolan’s Batman films. I personally have not seen Nable in anything but he’s recently starred in Riddick and Fell. THR writes:

He will first appear in the fourth episode, “The Magician,” also Arrow’s 50th milestone. The leader of the League of Assassins and father of Nyssa al Ghul (Katrina Law), Ra’s is proud and unforgiving. A ruthless strategist, a master of martial arts and a shaper of history, Ra’s carries the wisdom of the ages and protects some of its greatest secrets.

Ra’s al Ghul’s presence was expected, but we really hoped they’d cast someone with an Middle Eastern background. All I can glean from Nable’s wikipedia and IMDB page are that he’s from Australia.

The CW also released an all-new trailer for Season 3 today.

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."

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