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Wednesday Season 3 Taps Headey, McCarthy & Lance as Guest Stars

Netflix's Wednesday has tapped Lena Headey (Game of Thrones), Andrew McCarthy (Brats), and James Lance (Ted Lasso) as Season 3 guest stars.

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  • Wednesday Season 3 adds Lena Headey, Andrew McCarthy, and James Lance as high-profile guest stars.
  • Production is underway in Dublin, with Jenna Ortega returning as star and executive producer.
  • New cast members include Winona Ryder, Chris Sarandon, Noah Taylor, Oscar Morgan, and Kennedy Moyer.
  • Tim Burton returns to direct, teasing new mysteries, teachers, and long-buried Addams Family secrets.

With production underway in Dublin on the third season of star/EP Jenna Ortega, director/EP Tim Burton, and Showrunners/EPs Al Gough and Miles Millar's Wednesday, we've got more big casting news to pass along. Lena Headey (Game of Thrones, The Abandons), Andrew McCarthy (St. Elmo's Fire, Brats), and James Lance (Ted Lasso) have been tapped as guest stars, though details on their characters are being kept under wraps. The news comes less than two months after we learned that Winona Ryder ("Stranger Things"), Chris Sarandon (Dog Day Afternoon), Noah Taylor (Peaky Blinders), Oscar Morgan (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms), and Kennedy Moyer (Task) had joined the cast. Ryder is set as Tabitha, with Taylor cast as Cyrus, Morgan set as Atticus, Moyer tapped to play Daisy, and Sarandon set as Balthazar.

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As for the rest of the cast, the third season will aslo include Emma Myers (Enid), Eva Green (Aunt Ophelia), Hunter Doohan (Tyler Galpin), Joy Sunday (Bianca Barclay), Evie Templeton (Agnes DeMille), Luis Guzmán (Gomez Addams), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Morticia Addams), Joanna Lumley (Granmama Hester Frump), 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), and Fred Armisen recurring as Uncle Fester.

"It's our dark delight to fling open Nevermore Academy's gates once more as we begin production on Season Three," said Gough and Millar. "We thank our invincible cast and crew for their continued commitment to doom and gloom. To the fans, we appreciate your patience and ravenous online commentary – your twisted theories have inspired nightmares. This season, we welcome new students, new teachers, and excavate some long-rotting Addams Family secrets. Don't say you weren't warned." Director Tim Burton added, "I'm so excited to be back for Season 3, and it's great to be reunited with all of the original cast. The addition of some dear friends and past collaborators of mine – Winona, Eva, Chris, Noah…makes this season extra special. I feel very lucky."

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Speaking with Variety at the Marrakech Film Festival back in November, Ortega touched on how much of a "beautiful actress" Green is, adding that they were "in the middle of the script process" for Season 3, so she was still feeling out what she's looking for when the Netflix series returns. "I'm thrilled to join the woefully twisted world of Wednesday as Aunt Ophelia," Green shared when the news was first announced. "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." Here's a look at what Ortega had to share about Green joining the cast and where things are at with Season 3:

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Ray FlookAbout Ray Flook

Serving as Television Editor since 2018, Ray began five years earlier as a contributing writer/photographer before being brought onto the core BC team in 2017.
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