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Who’s joining the cast of Wednesday for Season 2?

Thrillingly, there will be plenty of new blood, too: in April 2024, it was announced that both Thandiwe Newton and Steve Buscemi had joined the cast for the second installment. While details are scarce, it is seemingly confirmed that the latter will take the part of Nevermore’s new principle, Barry Dort. “She’s just, she’s so sharp and funny and down to earth,” Buscemi recently said of his co-star, Ortega. “And just a wonderful actress, a wonderful scene partner. The best.” As for the plot? “All very hush-hush, as they say, but I think it’s going to be a great season, and I loved working on it.”

Also joining them? Billie Piper, Evie Templeton, Owen Painter, and Noah Taylor, all as new series regulars, while the likes of Joanna Lumley, Christopher Lloyd, Frances O’Connor, Haley Joel Osment, Heather Matarazzo, and Joonas Suotamo will appear as guest stars. In a teaser showing Thing delivering Season 2’s scripts to cast members, it was also revealed that Lumley would be playing the Addams family’s matriarch, “Grandmama.”