Following the recent additions of Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams and Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams, the cast of director Tim Burton’s upcoming live-action Addams Family series titled Wednesday, continues to grow as Netflix enlisted ten new cast members. They will officially be joining Yes Day star Jenna Ortega, who will be leading the series as Wednesday Addams.
Hunter Doohan (Your Honor), Georgie Farmer (Treadstone), Moosa Mostafa (The Last Bus), Emmy Myers (Taste of Christmas), Naomi J. Ogawa (Skylin3s), Joy Sunday (Dear White People), and Percy Hynes White (The Gifted) have been tapped to portray Nevermore Academy’s supernatural students. Meanwhile, Thora Birch (The Walking Dead), Riki Lindhome (Knives Out), and Jamie McShane (Mank) have been cast as members of Nevermore Academy’s faculty.
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The character descriptions for each of the new cast members are listed below:
- Doohan’s Tyler Galpin – a townie who strikes up an unlikely friendship with Wednesday Addams. Tyler has a troubled relationship with his father, the local sheriff.
- Farmer’s Ajax Petropolus – a student at Nevermore Academy, who also happens to be a Gorgon. Awkward and shy, Ajax is anxious about looking anyone in the eye.
- Mostafa’s Eugune Otinger – one of Nevermore Academy’s quirkiest students and president of the school’s bee-keeping club.
- Myers’ Enid Sinclair – She’s Wednesday’s sunny and colorful Californian roommate at Nevermore Academy. Enid hails from a pack of San Francisco Werewolves.
- Ogawa’s Yoko Tanaka – a vampire with Harajuku-inspired Goth flair and one of the cool kids at Nevermore Academy.
- Sunday’s Bianca Barclay – one of Nevermore Academy’s most popular students, Bianca descends from a long line of Sirens with a mesmerizing power to persuade.
- Hynes’s Xavier Thorpe – A charismatic and supernaturally artistic Nevermore Academy student, who comes from wealth thanks to his celebrity psychic father.
- Thora Birch’s Tamara Novak – will be Wednesday’s dorm mother and the only “Normie” on staff at Nevermore Academy with a focus on all things botanical.
- Lindhome’s Dr. Valerie Kinbott – is a local therapist in the sleepy town of Jericho who takes a particular interest in her newest patient Wednesday Addams.
- Jamie McShane’s Sheriff Donovan Galpin – Born and bred in Jericho, this Sheriff has always had an issue with Nevermore Academy and a vendetta against former student Gomez Addams.
JOY SUNDAY joins as BIANCA BARCLAY, a popular student at Wednesday’s school Nevermore Academy. EMMA MYERS will be ENID SINCLAIR, Wednesday’s roommate
HUNTER DOOHAN will be TYLER GALPIN, a townie who befriends Wednesday. MOOSA MOSTAFA is EUGENE OTINGER, a quirky Nevermore student pic.twitter.com/cBHzwe3dLb
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Rounding out the new cast additions are THORA BIRCH as TAMARA NOVAK, Wednesday’s dorm mother and the only “Normie” on staff at Nevermore Academy, and RIKI LINDHOME as DR. VALERIE KINBOTT, a local therapist who takes a particular interest in Wednesday pic.twitter.com/ldBMUpyf4M
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The 8-episode series is described as a coming-of-age comedy that will be a sleuthing, supernaturally-infused mystery. “It will chart the titular heroine’s years as a student at the peculiar Nevermore Academy as she attempts to master her emerging psychic ability,” reads the synopsis, “While also thwarting a monstrous killing spree terrorizing the local town and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships of the strange and diverse student body.”
Wednesday will be executive produced and directed by Tim Burton (Beetlejuice, Corpse Bride) in his television directorial debut. This wasn’t Burton’s first attempt at adapting the Addams Family as he was previously attached to write and produce an animated film for Illumination Entertainment. However, three years after the project was announced, it was ultimately canceled.
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Based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles Addams in 1938, Wednesday is created and written by Al Gough and Miles Millar, who are also set as showrunners. Executive producers are Andrew Mittman, Kevin Miserocchi, Kayla Alpert, Jonathan Glickman, and Gail Berman, with MGM and United Artists also attached to produce.
