‘Wednesday’ Casts a Goth Icon to Play the Mysterious Aunt Ophelia

After a mountain of build-up, we’ll lastly get to correctly meet Morticia Addams’ sister Ophelia in season three of Wednesday. Not solely that, however we all know who’ll be enjoying her: Eva Green, whose goth bona fides embrace three earlier Tim Burton tasks (2012’s Darkish Shadows, 2016’s Miss Peregrine’s House for Peculiar Kids, and 2019’s Dumbo), in addition to the spooky Victorian-era Showtime collection Penny Dreadful.

Inexperienced is now including Ophelia Frump to her resume, as Deadline stories. Sorry to followers who might have hoped Lady Gaga‘s Rosaline Rotwood was hiding a deeper acquainted connection to Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega). Because the commerce reminds us, the again of Ophelia’s head—initially telegraphed by her lengthy, blonde hair—was glimpsed on the finish of Wednesday season two, because of a Wednesday imaginative and prescient that additionally revealed her aunt was being held prisoner by Grandmama Frump (Joanna Lumley).

Additionally, worrisomely, Ophelia is seen scrawling “Wednesday should die” on the wall in what seems to be like blood. Inexperienced is the primary huge title to affix Wednesday season three—we had a sense they wouldn’t simply stick a pale wig on Catherine Zeta-Jones for the position—and he or she’ll clearly be an necessary determine shifting ahead.

Talking to Netflix’s Tudum weblog, Wednesday creators, writers, and showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar mentioned, “Eva Inexperienced has at all times introduced an exhilarating, singular presence to the display screen—elegant, haunting, and superbly unpredictable. These qualities make her the right selection for Aunt Ophelia. We’re excited to see how she transforms the position and expands Wednesday’s world.”

Inexperienced added, “I’m thrilled to affix the woefully twisted world of Wednesday as Aunt Ophelia. This present is such a deliciously darkish and witty world, I can’t wait to convey my very own contact of cuckoo-ness to the Addams household.”

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