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Ruth Negga, who has played the ruthless Raina on Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, will be the female lead in Sony TV and AMC’s adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher.

According to the report at Deadline, Negga will play Tulip, the former girlfriend of the titular Preacher, Jesse Custer. The character is described as “a volatile, action-packed, sexified force of nature, a capable, unrepentant criminal with a love of fashion and ability to construct helicopter-downing bazookas out of coffee cans and corn shine who’s not afraid to steal, kill or corn cob-stab her way out of a bad situation.”

The pilot for the new series, from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, will be written by proposed showrunner Sam Catlin.