Videos from the set of Supergirl season two showed the Man of Steel squaring off with an actor who looked an awful lot like Metallo, and now Entertainment Weekly has confirmed the news. Frederick Schmidt will be playing the villain, and it sounds like his story is going to play out over at least a couple of episodes as we follow John Corben's transformation into the Kryptonite powered bad guy.
For further details, here's the official character description from The CW: "When international assassin John Corben is badly injured after taking on both Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) and Superman (Tyler Hoechlin), he is reborn by a shadow organization into the Kryptonite-powered supervillain Metallo."
Metallo first appeared in Action Comics in 1959, and previously made his live-action debut in Smallville when he was played by Brian Austin Green. Scmidt is a relative unknown, with perhaps his most noteworthy credit being Starred Up. Are you looking forward to seeing the villain in Supergirl?