Are you ready to dive into the even darker, quirkier Addams family lore?
As expected, the story keeps sinking into darker corners. And how much darker can it get now that Netflix finally brings in one of the most anticipated figures in the Addams universe: Aunt Ophelia. No, this has nothing to do with a Taylor Swift track. That belongs to another world and definitely another lore.
This week, Netflix revealed the face behind Morticia Addams’ elusive sister. Eva Green, known for Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Dark Shadows, officially joins the cast of Wednesday and steps into the role of the troubled, long-lost member of the Addams bloodline. To recall, the back of her figure was revealed in the final seconds of the Season 2 finale, a fleeting glimpse that sparked chaos and theories all over the internet. Now the mystery has a name and a very fitting face.
Here’s What We Know So Far About ‘Wednesday’ Season 3
After months of online speculation and rumor spiraling through fan communities, Netflix has confirmed the new high-profile cast additions for the third season of one of the platform’s most iconic shows. This announcement finally shuts down the theory that Lady Gaga’s Rosalyn Rottwood, the deceased Nevermore teacher, might secretly be Ophelia Frump. A dramatic idea, but not the truth.
For anyone new to the series, Aunt Ophelia is far from a throwaway character. In the Wednesday universe, she has a history that mirrors her niece in unsettling ways. Like Wednesday, she is a raven, a type of psychic known for visions steeped in darkness, suffering, and grim fates. Her story, however, twists even further into tragedy. She was committed to Willow Hill Psychiatric Hospital by her own mother, Hester Frump, the same mother shared by Morticia. Ophelia eventually escaped, vanishing without a trace.
Until Wednesday found her.
At the end of the Season 2 finale, Wednesday reads her aunt’s journal, a parting gift from Morticia, which was meant to signal trust. However, the journal triggers a chilling vision of a woman with long blond hair and a flower crown. In another scene, Hester descends into the basement of her mansion. There, locked in a cell, is Ophelia. Still hidden from full view, she wears a red dress and scrawls ‘Wednesday must die’ on the wall in her own blood. A warm family moment, as the quirky Addams puts it.
Her appearance contrasts sharply with Morticia’s classic gothic elegance. Ophelia’s long blond hair stands out like sunlight intruding into a crypt. Even in the 1960s Addams Family series, Carolyn Jones played both sisters and wore a blond wig for Ophelia, creating the same eerie contrast. It feels intentional, a visual reminder that light can sometimes be more unsettling than shadow.
Eva Green on ‘Wednesday’: But a Fitting Role
Casting Eva Green feels almost dangerous in how perfect it is. Known for her ethereal intensity and her ability to play characters who seem stitched together from magic, pain, and mystery, Green brings exactly the kind of energy Ophelia demands. Her work in Penny Dreadful earned her a Golden Globe nomination and cemented her as a modern icon of supernatural drama. Her upcoming films, The Trees, Blood on Snow, and Just Play Dead, hint at her continued devotion to stories that live in the strange, the shadowy, and the beautifully twisted.
The actress herself shared her excitement about entering Wednesday’s haunting world. “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.”
Based on the original creations of Charles Addams, Wednesday takes the classic macabre humor of the Addams Family and turns it into a supernatural mystery that follows Wednesday Addams during her time at Nevermore Academy. The series mixes gothic family satire with unraveling secrets, murder investigations, and a school filled with gifted outcasts. Jenna Ortega returns as Wednesday, and the ensemble once again includes Emma Myers, Hunter Doohan, Joy Sunday, Moosa Mostafa, Georgie Farmer, Isaac Ordonez, Billie Piper, Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo, Victor Dorobantu, Evie Templeton, Luis Guzmán, Catherine Zeta Jones, Joanna Lumley, and Fred Armisen.
How will Eva Green’s Ophelia shift the balance of Nevermore’s already chaotic world? Will she bring clarity or calamity? Light or something far more sinister? That is the part we will have to wait for. And as for whether more new faces are joining the story, that is another mystery waiting in the shadows.
Stay tuned. This feels like just the start of a slow unraveling. As we all know, the world of Wednesday is only getting darker.
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