It’s official. Ophelia Frump has a face to the name in Netflix‘s Wednesday. Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children and Penny Dreadful actress Eva Green will take on the role of Morticia Addams’ (Catherine Zeta-Jones) sister, seen at the end of Wednesday Season 2 enscribing Wednesday Must Die in blood on the wall of a cellar she’s called home for the last twenty years. All signs seem to point towards unraveling the mystery of Ophelia in Wednesday Season 3, after Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) was gifted her aunt’s journal, filled with pages of her devolving madness as she lost control of her psychic abilities.
Green as Ophelia marks the first major cast addition for Wednesday Season 3 after its renewal over the summer. Green says of joining the cast, “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 cuckooness to the Addams family.” Fans already met more of Morticia’s family last season, with the addition of Joanna Lumley as Hester Frump. Ophelia was first played by Carolyn Jones in the original Addams Family television show.
‘Wednesday’ Continues to Expand the World of the Addams Family
As the Frump family rounds out (Zeta-Jones, Lumley, and now Green), Season 3 is shaping up to continue to take a deeper dive into the supernatural-esque world of Outcasts. While there will likely be a significant amount of Season 3 spent on the search for Enid (Emma Myers), who shifted as a burgeoning Alpha and is likely stuck that way for the foreseeable future, Wednesday continues to try and unravel her psychic ability after she burned it out early in Season 2. While she briefly regained her abilities, though intermittent and nearly cost Enid her life, she still needs guidance from a true Raven to continue putting her best foot forward. While it’s revealed that Lumley‘s Hester is also a Raven (leaving Morticia the lone Dove in the Frump family), her secret of keeping Ophelia locked away, while perpetuating the story that she ran away, will likely not make for a fruitful mentor/mentee relationship between herself and her granddaughter, Wednesday.
In an interview for Season 2, Zeta-Jones talked about the dichotomy of the relationship between Morticia and Hester versus the relationship between Morticia and Wednesday, which continued to see friction in the series’ sophomore season. “What I portray to my mother [as Morticia], the contentious relationship sometimes is exactly what I do not want to have with my own daughter [Wednesday]. And history does repeat itself. My mother, Hester Frump, has a little bit more of a mean bone in her body than Morticia and Morticia is always family first as [her] mother wasn’t.” The series is known for its flashbacks to help fill in the narrative gaps, and it will be interesting to see if any are in store portraying the dynamic between Morticia and Ophelia prior to Ophelia’s ‘disappearance’ along with what the dynamics were like growing up in the Frump household.
Wednesday Seasons 1 and 2 are available to stream on Netflix now. Season 3 will be filming in Ireland in the coming months.
via Collider