Calahan Skogman burst onto the scene as the beloved (and brooding) Matthias Helvar in Netflix’s Shadow & Bone. Fans rallied behind the slow burn romance between Mattias and Grisha soldier Nina Zenik (Danielle Galligan). After filming the first season and the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, Skogman turned to the written word, which led to his debut novel Blue Graffiti.
“I left Los Angeles at that time, and I wanted to spend time with my family kind of in the middle of nowhere Wisconsin Midwest. It was just a time of peace and family and togetherness and just time. It afforded me to be able to get back into literature in a real way that I hadn’t in a long time,” Skogman told Swooon at New York Comic Con.