Eva Green Joins the Cast of WEDNESDAY Season 3 as Aunt Ophelia
Season two of the hit Netflix series Wednesday introduced fans to Morticia Addams’ sister, Ophelia, and now we can put a face to the name.
Eva Green (Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, Dark Shadows) has joined the cast of the show as a series regular, playing the troubled Addams family member seen from the back in the final seconds of the Season 2 finale.
The high-profile casting marks the first major addition for the upcoming third season of Wednesday, which was greenlighted this past summer, ahead of the Season 2 premiere. It also ends speculation over the mysterious character, including fan theories that Lady Gaga’s Rosalyn Rottwood could be Ophelia Frump.
A raven like her niece Wednesday (Jenna Ortega), Ophelia had pushed her psychic abilities to the limit — and beyond. She was committed to Willow Hill Psychiatric Hospital by her and Morticia’s (Catherine Zeta-Jones) mother, Hester Frump (Joanna Lumley), before escaping.
Ophelia’s traces were believed lost, before Wednesday, reading her aunt’s journal given to her by Morticia as a token of trust at the end of the Season 2 finale, has a vision of a woman with long blond hair and a flower crown.
Moments later, Hester is seen walking to the basement of her mansion where, locked in a cell, is Ophelia. Still seen only from the back, she is revealed to be wearing a red dress and writing “Wednesday must die” in her own blood on the wall.
The cast includes Ortega (Wednesday Addams), Emma Myers (Enid Sinclair), Hunter Doohan (Tyler Galpin), Joy Sunday (Bianca Barclay), Moosa Mostafa (Eugene Ottinger), Georgie Farmer (Ajax Petropolus), Isaac Ordonez (Pugsley Addams), Billie Piper (Isadora Capri), Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo (Sheriff Ritchie Santiago), Victor Dorobantu (Thing), Evie Templeton (Agnes DeMille), with Luis Guzmán (Gomez Addams), Zeta-Jones (Morticia Addams), Lumley (Grandmama Hester Frump) and Fred Armisen (Uncle Fester).
via: Deadline