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

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”.