'The Selection' Crowns Its King

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'The Selection' Crowns Its King

With its most important bachelorettes in place, "The Selection" is finally getting around to populating its royal palace—with a qualified gentleman to sit on the biggest throne!

The Hollywood Reporter has the dish that Anthony Head, former father figure to the stake-toting Buffy Summers on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," is officially on board to play King Clarkson.

Or, in other words: The King is Giles! LONG LIVE THE KING!

"The Selection" takes place in a futuristic North America, where democracy has been replaced by a monarchy and the population occupies a rigid caste system. One of the only chances for upward mobility is a national, "Bachelorette" style contest for the kingdom's biggest prize: the handsome, eligible Prince Maxon. The story focuses on America Singer, a working-class girl who finds herself a front-runner in the competition to become Maxon's leading lady.

Anthony is the latest addition to a cast that already includes Yael Grobglas as America, Michael Malarkey as the handsome prince and Lucien Laviscount as America's hometown love Aspen. But with no word on whether Leonor Varela, who was previously attached to the project, is still in place to play Queen Amberly, this may not be the last of the royal casting announcements to come out before "The Selection" begins shooting.

What do you think of Anthony in a royal role?

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