{"id":390231,"date":"2026-04-09T17:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390231\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:49:09","slug":"wednesday-adds-lena-headey-andrew-mccarthy-james-lance-to-s3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390231\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wednesday&#8217; Adds Lena Headey, Andrew McCarthy &#038; James Lance To S3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs production continues on Netflix\u2019s hit series, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/wednesday\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wednesday\" data-tag=\"wednesday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday<\/a>, near Dublin, Ireland, the guest star cast is increasing by three: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/lena-headey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lena-headey\" data-tag=\"lena-headey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lena Headey<\/a> (Game of Thrones), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/andrew-mccarthy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_andrew-mccarthy\" data-tag=\"andrew-mccarthy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew McCarthy<\/a> (St. Elmo\u2019s Fire), and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/james-lance\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-lance\" data-tag=\"james-lance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Lance<\/a> (Ted Lasso). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe trio joins the previously announced new additions to the cast, including Eva Green as Aunt Ophelia, Winona Ryder as Tabitha, Chris Sarandon as Balthazar, Noah Taylor as Cyrus, Oscar Morgan as Atticus, and Kennedy Moyer as Daisy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe returning cast includes Jenna Ortega (Wednesday Addams), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Morticia Addams), Luis Guzm\u00e1n (Gomez Addams), Isaac Ordonez (Pugsley Addams), Emma Myers (Enid Sinclair), Hunter Doohan (Tyler Galpin), Joy Sunday (Bianca Barclay), Moosa Mostafa (Eugene Ottinger), Georgie Farmer (Ajax Petropolus), Billie Piper (Isadora Capri), Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo (Sheriff Ritchie Santiago), Victor Dorobantu (Thing), Evie Templeton (Agnes DeMille), with Joanna Lumley (Grandmama Hester Frump) and Fred Armisen (Uncle Fester).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCreated by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar,\u00a0Wednesday\u00a0follows the titular Addams to Nevermore Academy, where she learns to master her emerging psychic abilities. In Season 1, she uncovers a killing spree that was connected to her parents, Morticia and Gomez, who met at the school 15 years earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSeason 2 shines a brighter light on Wednesday and Morticia\u2019s mother-and-daughter relationship and new family members will be introduced. The season ended with several cliffhangers, such as the reveal that Aunt Ophelia was in Grandmama Hester\u2019s basement, Enid\u2019s Alpha wolf-out during the full moon \u2014 which may be impossible to reverse \u2014 and Isadora Capri\u2019s offer to Tyler to join a group of Hydes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWednesday\u00a0Season 2 debuted in 2025, split into two batches. It rose to the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/wednesday-season-netflix-most-popular-canelo-crawford-kpop-1236545976\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#5 most-watched English-language series of all time<\/a>, following the record-breaking success of Season 1 of the global hit series, which still remains the most-watched English-language series of all time on\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/netflix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Netflix<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGough and Millar serve as creators, writers, showrunners and executive producers; Tim Burton directs and executive produces; MGM Television is the studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As production continues on Netflix\u2019s hit series, Wednesday, near Dublin, Ireland, the guest star cast is increasing by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[173112,93,61,60,173113,173114,1868,282,11381],"class_list":{"0":"post-390231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-andrew-mccarthy","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-james-lance","13":"tag-lena-headey","14":"tag-netflix","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-wednesday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}