Deadline is reporting that actor-singer Jesse McCartney has been hired to play the elder Locke child in Fox’s adaptation of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s Locke & Key series. The 22 year old actor will be playing well under his age as the high school teen who withdraws after his father’s death.
McCartney has only had a few television appearances – his most recent was on the series Greek, but many may know him from his voice over work where he’s provided voices for everyone from Theodore in the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie to Robin in the Young Justice animated series currently running on the Cartoon Network.