The 'Thinking Out Loud' hitmaker will play an ambitious and deadly protege of a high-ranking church elder on the new FX series.
- July 28, 2015
AceShowbiz -
Ed Sheeran has booked a TV role. The British singer/songwriter will recur on FX's upcoming series "The Bastard Executioner" as Sir Cormac, an ambitious and deadly protege of a high-ranking church elder, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Sheeran was a self-declared fan of "Sons of Anarchy" from Kurt Sutter, who also created the new medieval drama. He contributed to the biker drama by recording a bluesy cover of Foy Vance's "Make It Rain" for the penultimate episode.
The "Lego House" hitmaker has appeared as himself in a live episode of NBC's "Undateable" in May and will have his concert special titled "Ed Sheeran: Live at Wembley Stadium" aired on the same network later this summer.
"The Bastard Executioner" is dubbed a blood-soaked medieval epic which tells the story of a warrior knight in King Edward I's charge who is broken by the ravages of war and vows to lay down his sword. But when that violence finds him again he is forced to pick up the bloodiest sword of all.
The show stars Lee Jones, Stephen Moyer, Katey Sagal, Brian F. O'Byrne and Matthew Rhys. Filmed in the U.K., it will premiere this fall on FX.
