The Sandman cast Desire actor Mason Alexander Park after gutsy exchange with Neil Gaiman

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The Sandman star Mason Alexander Park is proof that shooting your shot works.

Since The Sandman dropped on Netflix, viewers have been raving about Park’s performance as the chaotic, dynamic Desire.

The gender-fluid personification of desire, one of many queer and trans characters in the show, “slays so hard”, wrote one fan, with another calling their casting “perfection”.

Netflix has revealed that Park’s casting came out from them simply asking creator Neil Gaiman on Twitter to consider them.

During the early stages of production on the series, Gaiman tweeted: “People reading Sandman now are the last ones to get to read it in a world where there’s been no Sandman adaptation, where you can’t see it on a screen. I heard the groaning hinges of the world.”

Park tweeted in response: “Will Desire be making an appearance S1? And if so, please tell me you haven’t found them yet/are still auditioning.”

They included a GIF of Sarah Paulson saying: “I am begging you from my soul.”

At the time they had only played one-off roles in shows like Before You Know It and Transplants, later starring in Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop. 

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Will Desire be making an appearance S1? And if so, please tell me you haven’t found them yet/are still auditioning