Wednesday Addams and all of her dark-hearted charm are coming back for season 2, and Netflix is peeling back the spooky curtain on it all in a new behind-the-scenes video.
In the clip, below, the Wednesday cast, including Jenna Ortega, Luis Guzmán, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Emma Myers, and Joy Sunday, tease some scenes and on-set moments from the new season.
“Let’s play dolls,” Ortega’s cynical titular anti-heroine can be heard telling someone, all while ominously holding an obscenely serrated shank.
Zeta-Jones, who plays Addams family matriarch Morticia, teases, “This season is going to bigger and more twisted than you can ever imagine.”
It’s a pretty quick little tease at the next season of the supernatural series, but, as Wednesday puts it in the clip, “If we showed you any more, your eyes would bleed, and I’m not that generous.” Well then.
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(L to R) Georgie Farmer, Victor Dorobantu, Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nayo, Joy Sunday, Owen Painter, Emma Myers, Billie Piper, Jenna Ortega, Evie Templeton, Luis Guzmán, Isaac Ordonez, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Alfred Gough, Noah Taylor, Miles Millar, Tim Burton, Steve Buscemi, Moosa Mostafa, Hunter Doohan on the set of ‘Wednesday’ season 2.
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The first season of the Tim Burton-directed series was a new twist on The Addams Family franchise, featuring Ortega as the goth girl icon as she attempts to master her emerging psychic ability as a new student at Nevermore Academy, solve a mystery, and foil a supernatural killing spree in the process.
Not much is known about the plot for season 2, but showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar previously teased in a statement that they are “thrilled that the entire Addams family will be enrolling in Nevermore Academy this season along with a dream cast of icons and new faces.”
To that end, its been revealed that Steve Buscemi is joining as a character named Barry Dort. Hell be joined by fellow new series regulars Billie Piper, Evie Templeton, Owen Painter, and Noah Taylor, while new guest stars will include Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Lumley, Thandiwe Newton, Frances O’Connor, Haley Joel Osment, Heather Matarazzo, and Joonas Suotamo.
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Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in ‘Wednesday’ season 2. Netflix
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A few familiar faces wont be coming back to Nevermore, however. Percy Hynes White, who played Wednesday love interest and telekinetic student Xavier, wont be returning in the wake of sexual assault allegations against the actor (which he has denied).
Jamie McShane (who played Sheriff Donovan Galpin, father of Tyler) and Naomi J. Ogawa (who played fellow student Yoko Tanaka) have also departed ahead of season 2.
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