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Netflix doesn’t like to play around with cancellations or renewals. So, it did just what was needed for Wednesday, greenlighting its third season way before the debut of the second one. While it goes without saying that Netflix will take its own sweet time to bring what’s next, what’s fresh in the news is that Eva Green has officially joined the Addams Family ahead of its upcoming outing.

Green will portray Aunt Ophelia, the alleged missing sister of Morticia Adams, whose name was heard at least a million times in the second season, but her face? Never seen. Her casting also marks a reunion with longtime collaborator director Tim Burton.

In a conversation with Tudum following the cast confirmation, creators, showrunners, and writers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar said, “Eva Green has always brought an exhilarating, singular presence to the screen – elegant, haunting, and beautifully unpredictable. Those qualities make her the perfect choice for Aunt Ophelia. We’re excited to see how she transforms the role and expands Wednesday’s world.”

Meanwhile, Green chimed in to express her excitement, saying, “I’m thrilled to join the woefully twisted world of Wednesday as Aunt Ophelia. This show is such a deliciously dark and witty world, I can’t wait to bring my own touch of cuckoo-ness to the Addams family.”

Aunt Ophelia didn’t make an appearance in Wednesday until the second season finale. However, her lore has continually hovered over the Addams family legacy, especially in the last instalment. Even when we were allowed a glimpse, we barely got a sneak peek of her from behind, with no face reveal, donning a flower crown while scribbling “Wednesday must die” on the wall, locked in a cell in Grandmama Hester Frump’s basement.

She was originally believed to be missing for 20 years, but the season finale confirms that she is alive. But can you recall the reason behind her repeated references? After Wednesday loses her psychic powers and starts shedding black tears in the second instalment, Morticia tries to talk to her daughter, revealing that Aunt Ophelia had lost control of hers when she abused it beyond limits. She, like Wednesday, is a Raven, too.

Morticia also hands over Ophelia’s journal to Wednesday, which returns her powers with a disastrous vision of Ophelia locked in a room in Grandmama Hester’s mansion. This not only raises the stakes in the third season, but also raises new questions.

“Ophelia has been gone a long time. It’s left a hole in Morticia’s life and a lot of unanswered questions. The reemergence of Ophelia is going to hit this family like a bomb,” Millar says. “It was always the plan to give viewers a glimpse of her at the end of the season in a way that they weren’t expecting, and then that’s a driver into season three,” Gough explains.

Although not much is known about the new cast additions, except for Green’s arrival, the returning cast includes Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair, Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin, Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay, Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Ottinger, Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus, Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Adams, and Billie Piper as Isadora Capri.

Luyanda Unati-Lewis as Sheriff Ritchie Santiago, Victor Dorobantu as Thing, Evie Templeton as Agnes DeMille, Luis Guzman as Gomez Addams, Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, Joanna Lumley as Grandmama Hester Frump, and Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester round out the cast. As for the rest of the details on season three, stay tuned for more updates!