Netflixconfirmed three new additions to "Wednesday" Season 3 this week: Lena Headey, Andrew McCarthy and James Lance are all joining the cast.
The trio arrives as production continues on what's shaping up to be the show's most star-studded season yet. Headey, known to most audiences as Cersei Lannister on "Game of Thrones," joins fellow newcomers Winona Ryder, Eva Green, Chris Sarandon, Noah Taylor, Oscar Morgan and Kennedy Moyer, alongside returning cast membersJenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán and Fred Armisen. McCarthy, best remembered for "St. Elmo's Fire," and Lance, familiar to "Ted Lasso" fans, round out the new wave, though none of their roles have been disclosed.
Plot specifics for Season 3 remain tightly under wraps, though the season is expected to lean further into the Addams family's buried history. Season 2 ended with the reveal that Morticia's estranged sister, Ophelia, played by Green, is alive and had scrawled "Wednesday must die" on a wall.
Showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have promised the new season goes deeper into family secrets than either of its predecessors. "This season, we welcome new students, new teachers, and excavate some long-rotting Addams Family secrets," the pair said in a statement when production began. "Don't say you weren't warned."
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Production has taken the show overseas for the first time. Filming ran in Paris from April 18 through April 20, with Ortega, Armisen and director Tim Burton spotted shooting scenes along the Seine, a notable departure for a series that has stayed rooted in the United States through its first two seasons. Netflix teased the trip with a first-look photo of Ortega beneath the Eiffel Tower, captioned "From Paris, with dread."
The additions build on a run of high-profile casting news for the series. Ryder's arrival, confirmed in February, marked a reunion with both Ortega and Burton, her collaborators on 2024's "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice." "When it comes to Outcasts, Winona Ryder is the GOAT," Gough and Millar said in a statement at the time.
"Wednesday" enters its third season as one of Netflix's biggest franchises. Season 1 remains the platform's most-watched English-language series ever, streamed for more than 1.7 billion hours, while Season 2 currently ranks fifth on that all-time list with 119.3 million views. That success and scale is helping to drive attention with each new casting announcement as a show already involving Burton, Ortega, Zeta-Jones, Green and Ryder now adds a "Game of Thrones" icon to the mix, with more names likely before filming wraps.
No release date has been set. Given the roughly three-year gap between Seasons 1 and 2, expectations have settled around a 2027 premiere, though Netflix hasn't confirmed a timeline.
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