Anthony Michael Hall Joins the Cast of WEDNESDAY Season 2 in Reunion With EDWARD SCISSORHANDS Director Tim Burton
Anthony Michael Hall (National Lampoon’s Vacation, The Breakfast Club, The Dead Zone, The Dark Knight) is reuniting with Tim Burton, who directed him in the 1990 film Edward Scissorhands. Hall has joined the cast of the Burton’s hit Netflix series Wednesday, in its upcoming second season.
Wednesday follows Jenna Ortega in the title role of the psychic “Addams Family” daughter in her time as a student at Nevermore Academy. The second season of the series, which debuted its first season in November 2022, will launch on the streamer in two parts set to drop August 6th and September 3rd.
Along with Hall, the previously announced new actors joining the cast for Wednesday Season 2 include Steve Buscemi (The Big Lebowski), Billie Piper (Scoop), Evie Templeton (Return to Silent Hill), Owen Painter (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Noah Taylor (Park Avenue).
Notable guest stars will include Lady Gaga, Christopher Lloyd (The Addams Family), Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous), Thandiwe Newton (Westworld), Frances O’Connor (The Twelve), Haley Joel Osment (Somebody I Used to Know), Heather Matarazzo (The Princess Diaries) and Joonas Suotamo (The Acolyte).
Ortega returns alongside Wednesday Season 1 stars Emma Myers (Enid Sinclair), Joy Sunday (Bianca Barclay), Moosa Mostafa (Eugene), Georgie Farmer (Ajax), Victor Dorobantu (Thing), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Morticia Addams), Luis Guzmán (Gomez Addams), Isaac Ordonez (Pugsley Addams), Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo (Deputy Ritchie Santiago), Jamie McShane (Sheriff Donovan Galpin) and Fred Armisen (Uncle Fester).
Wednesday Season 2 is directed by Burton alongside Paco Cabezas and Angela Robinson. Series co-creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar serve as showrunners and executive produce with Burton, Ortega, Natalie Testa, Steve Stark, Andrew Mittman, Tommy Harper, Karen Richards, Kayla Alpert, Jonathan Glickman, Gail Berman and Meredith Averill. The show hails from Amazon’s MGM Television.
Hall’s most recent credits include the hit Amazon Prime Video action series Reacher, and Prime’s Bosch: Legacy, as well as the Universal feature Halloween Kills, and the Netflix movie Trigger Warning.
via: Variety