Every part You Want To Know

First, let’s start with the official logline for season 2:

“Wednesday Addams returns to prowl the Gothic halls of Nevermore Academy, the place recent foes and woes await. This season, Wednesday should navigate household, buddies and previous adversaries, propelling her into one other 12 months of delightfully darkish and kooky mayhem. Armed together with her signature razor-sharp wit and deadpan attraction, Wednesday can also be plunged into a brand new bone-chilling supernatural thriller.”

Subsequent, let’s have a look at what showrunners have teased for the present’s future. Talking with The Hollywood Reporter forward of the official renewal, they’ve mentioned:

“For us, the present additionally is actually about this feminine friendship, with Wednesday and Enid actually being on the middle of that. The truth that they actually linked with audiences, it has been actually gratifying. So, we’re excited to discover now that Wednesday’s dipped her toe into the friendship pool, what’s that gonna appear like?”

Quite a few sources counsel a big new character will seem in Wednesday’s season 2. Amongst the hypothesis as to who that could possibly be is Cousin Itt, Purbert, Grandma Addams, or Mama. We’ve received extra particulars on

Jenna Ortega spoke to Variety in June 2023 and gave them some perception into the brand new season and what we will anticipate from the tone the place she mentioned:

“It’s nonetheless coming collectively, however we’ve determined we need to lean into the horror extra. We’re ditching any romantic love curiosity, which is actually nice. We’re going to get bolder, extra darkish. I’ve by no means needed to do a severe interval piece earlier than. Was there something you need to do to ensure issues are correct?”

At Netflix TUDUM in Brazil in June 2023, Jenna Ortega and a number of the different solid members have been a part of the reside stream in a small video the place she addressed theories for season 2:

Now, let’s transfer on to the lingering questions and story threads for season 2:

Who’s Wednesday’s stalker?

Instantly after switching on the telephone that Xavier had purchased her, Wednesday was despatched quite a few ominous messages as she gleefully realized she had acquired her first stalker.

We already know that Wednesday had a restricted on-line presence, due to her unfavorable stance in the direction of social media. However contemplating Xavier is the one to present her a model new telephone, it’s spectacular a stalker was already in a position to ship her messages. However due to her antics, it’s no shock Wednesday has picked up a number of consideration.

Wednesday. Jenna Ortega as Wednesday in episode 201 of Wednesday. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025

What is going to Tyler do subsequent?

We final noticed Tyler in chains, being transported to what would have been a most safety jail or psychiatric ward. Nonetheless, earlier than the transport may make its journey, Tyler reworked into his Hyde kind, main the viewers to imagine he had killed the entire armed guards.

With Tyler on the free and with out his grasp, will he be extra harmful? Or will he attempt to redeem himself so he can return to Jehrico?

Wednesday. Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin in episode 202 of Wednesday. Cr. Jonathan Hession/Netflix © 2025

Who would be the subsequent Principal of Nevermore?

With Larissa Weems’s dying, Nevermore Academy has been left and not using a principal. There’s additionally an especially restricted pool of candidates who may take the job.

The showrunners have teased that closing the varsity has given them a broad canvas for season 2, telling THR, “The varsity was closed once they left, which gave us essentially the most potentialities for season two, and I believe that’s one thing we’re excited to discover.”

The obvious selection can be for Morticia Addams, Wednesday’s mom, to be provided the job. Morticia can be essentially the most competent individual to take over as a former Nevermore scholar and a Nightshades member. Nonetheless, Wednesday would do the whole lot inside her energy to take away her mom as principal, with hilarious and certain disastrous outcomes.

If Morticia is given the job of principal of Nevermore, Catherine Zeta-Jones would should be bumped as much as a sequence common.

Wednesday. (L to R) Joonas Suotamo as Lurch, Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, Jenna Ortega as Wednesday, Isaac Ordonez aș Pugsley Addams, Factor, Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams in episode 201 of Wednesday. Cr. Helen Sloan/Netflix © 2025

What is going to occur to Laurel?

Together with her true identification revealed, Laurel may resurrect Jeremiah Crackstone, however due to Wednesday, he was defeated. It was additionally revealed that she was the grasp of Tyler, as she manipulated {the teenager} into remodeling right into a hyde.

Laurel’s plans have been thwarted for now, but when Tyler involves the rescue of his grasp, the duo may have extra nefarious plans for Nevermore and the outcasts.

Wednesday. Pleasure Sunday as Bianca Barclay in episode 202 of Wednesday. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025

Will Pugsley be part of Nevermore?

It has been speculated that Pugsley will be part of Wednesday at Nevermore. Because of the discharge of the behind-the-scenes footage from the manufacturing of the second season, we will verify that Pugsley might be becoming a member of his sister at college.

Wednesday. Isaac Ordonez aș Pugsley Addams in episode 201 of Wednesday. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025

One other viral dance scene?

One of many largest viral moments of Wednesday season 1 was Ortega’s dance strikes. In a current interview with Additional (seen embedded under), the actress was requested whether or not there’ll be a viral dance, to which she answered, “Not that I’m conscious of.”

Earlier within the dialog, Ortega teased some huge set items from the upcoming season, saying, ” I’d say that we now have actually unbelievable set items. We’ve solely accomplished 4 episodes to date, however each episode has one robust, excellent scene or issue, which is form of good. To not describe it like they’re all motion pictures as a result of they’re not, however the season simply looks like we’re getting somewhat bit extra of a chance to do the issues we needed to perform within the first one.”

New Roles for Season 2 of Wednesday

In December 2023, we reported that Netflix was casting three new season regulars for the second season of Wednesday. They embrace:

• Karloff is the primary character we perceive is being solid for the brand new season. The character is described as a younger, athletic male teen, and the actor has to put on prosthetics.
• Wolfgang is the subsequent character we’re listening to about who will function in season 2. Additionally, a male teen, the character is described as charming and assured.
• Annie, a younger lady aged between 12 and 14, is described as whip-smart and sensible past her years.

In January 2024 and once more in Might 2024, we realized of some extra roles for the brand new season, however most pertinently:

• Bruno – Hispanic/Latino teen character who’s a brand new love curiosity within the present. Described as having a smoldering look.
• Theater Music Trainer – New member of the Nevermore workers.
• Freshman
• Dr. Rogers (feminine 30-59) is described as an bold overachiever and extremely environment friendly {and professional}. To function in 3 episodes.
• Sheriff Tatt – Lately arrived on the town to take up a place throughout the native police drive. She is described as sensible and a no-nonsense lady decided to make her mark.
• An unnamed male trainer who’s described as an older professor.

Who’s within the solid for Wednesday season 2?

Returning Forged Members for Wednesday Season 2

Let’s begin with all of the actors and actresses who might be again for the second outing:

• Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams
• Riki Lindhome as Dr. Valeria Kinbott
• Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin
• Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair
• Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Otinger
• Pleasure Sunday as Bianca Barclay
• Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus
• Naomi J. Ogawa as Yoko Tanaka
• Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams
• Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams
• Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester
• Victor Dorobantu as Factor
• George Burcea as Lurch
• Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams

We perceive that Gwendoline Christie and Percy Hynes White is not going to return for the second season.

Whereas it appears Gwendoline Christie’s character, Larissa Weems, died of Nightshade poisoning, there’s at all times an opportunity that the character may return in some capability by way of flashbacks. Nonetheless, our understanding is that she received’t return in any kind.

Within the case of White, it’s believed his omission from the season is because of ongoing investigations into sexual assault allegations. Netflix later confirmed the Whites’ omission in Might 2024.

Christina Ricci’s character, Marilyn Thornhill, also referred to as Laurel, was defeated, however her final destiny is unknown, which suggests the actress may return to reprise her position.

New Forged for Season 2 of Wednesday

All through April 2024 after which through a big cast reveal in May, the primary new solid members for the present’s second season have been revealed.

Cr. Helen Sloan/Netflix © 2024

Beginning with the brand new season regulars:

• Steve Buscemi (The Massive Lebowski, Boardwalk Empire) will play the brand new principal of Nevermore Academy, Barry Dort, who advocates for excluding “normies” from the varsity.
• Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nayo (Again in Motion) performs Sheriff Ritchie Santiago, the brand new sheriff of Jericho, who enlists the assistance of Wednesday after extra our bodies floor within the city. 
• Billie Piper (Scoop, I Hate Suzie) is predicted to play Capri, a brand new music trainer who takes a particular curiosity in Wednesday and turns into a mentor to fellow werewolf Enid Sinclair.
• Evie Templeton (Return to Silent Hill, Lord of Misrule) will play Agnes DeMille, a Nevermore outcast, who idolizes Wednesday after saving the varsity.
• Owen Painter (Tiny Lovely Issues, The Handmaid’s Story) performs Slurp, a zombie who was by accident resurrected by Puglsey Addams. 
• Noah B. Taylor (Legislation & Order: Organized Crime, Park Avenue) as Bruno, a brand new member of the wolf pack who has grown near Enid over summer time trip.

The brand new visitor stars for the brand new season embrace:

• Christopher Lloyd (Addams Household, Again to the Future) performs Professor Orloff, the longest serving trainer of Nevermore, and a stern disciplinarian.
• Joanna Lumley (Idiot Me As soon as, Completely Fabulous) will play Grandmama in season 2 with the character initially performed by Blossom Rock within the authentic Addams Household tv sequence.
• Thandiwe Newton (Westworld, Crash) will play Dr. Fairburn, the chief psychiatrist of Willow Hill Psychiatric Facility, the place Tylr Galpin is incarcerated.
• Frances O’Connor (The Lacking, The Twelve)
• Haley Joel Osment (The Kominsky Methodology, Any person I Used to Know) because the Kansas Metropolis Scalper, a serial killer who has a run in with Wednesday Addams.
• Heather Matarazzo (The Princess Diaries, Scream) will play Joanna, anticipated to function in 4 episodes and is described as quirky and unassuming.
• Joonas Suotamo (Solo: A Star Wars Story) as Lurch, the beloved butler of the Addams family.

Photos through Netflix

In August 2024, we reported that four new featured actors would function in season 2 of Wednesday. Philip Philmar (who appeared in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and The Witcher) will play the position of Augustus Stonehearst. At the moment unknown roles are Shaq B. Grant, Jackie Pulford, and Tedroy Newell. We additionally found one other two names in an replace in April 2025, with Monica McCarthy and TJ Hyland anticipated to play minor roles within the new season as Debbie Bricker and a Werewolf Prefect, respectively. 

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On November thirteenth, it was announced that Girl Gaga had joined the solid for Wednesday season 2. It was reported that her keep in Dublin was brief, as she wrapped up filming for her position on Wednesday after a week-long stay. Her position within the sequence has been saved underneath wraps, however contemplating how late she has been solid into filming, we will presume will probably be a visitor position. The irony just isn’t misplaced on us that Gaga’s casting within the second season comes after one in all her songs, “Bloody Mary,” went viral on social media after it was edited into the video of Jenna Ortega dancing within the first season. 

We are able to lastly verify Girl Gaga’s position within the sequence. She is going to play the position of Rosaline Rotwood, a “legendary trainer” of Nevermore.

Girl Gaga will visitor star as Rosaline Rotwood in ‘WEDNESDAY’ Season 2.

A legendary Nevermore trainer who crosses paths with Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/fMXvxM29eA

— Movie Updates (@FilmUpdates) June 1, 2025

When was Wednesday Season 2 in Manufacturing? The place was it filmed?

Due to the twin Hollywood strikes all through 2023, no manufacturing was in a position to start for the present regardless of prep for season 2 of Wednesday starting in early  2023, in keeping with an interview with Glamour magazine with Jenna Ortega, who advised them:

“We’re beginning to prep season two of Wednesday, which…has been thrilling. Simply creating new storylines and seeing the place characters are going. Beginning these conversations has been actually, actually enjoyable. I believe it’s going to be larger and higher, which is cool.”

Manufacturing listings initially acknowledged that they have been aiming for a filming begin in fall 2023, with some simply saying by the tip of 2023. Throughout a Formula 1 grid walk on Sky Sports F1 in June 2023, Martin Brundle spoke to Michael Douglass and Catherine Zeta-Jones, who confirmed that filming at the moment filming would start within the Fall of 2023. Subsequent manufacturing listings have acknowledged that filming will start in October 2023 in Romania underneath the codename PILGRIM. Reviews instructed season 2 will price between $5 and $7 million per episode.

By the tip of September, the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes had concluded. Following the tip of the author’s strike in late September, Variety reported that work on Wednesday season 2 (alongside Stranger Things season 5) was being prioritized internally at Netflix. SAG-AFTRA (the union representing actors) began its strike in July 2023 and concluded in early November 2023.

Deadline in November 2023 reported that manufacturing was trying to begin in April 2024 and dropped the bombshell that filming can be transferring from Romania to Ireland for the second season.

Tim Burton will direct episodes 1, 4, 7, and eight in season 2. Not like season 1, nevertheless, Burton will cut up directing duties. Becoming a member of Burton on the directing group this season is Spanish director Paco Cabezas (episodes 2 and three), finest recognized for Adios and Rage. Angela Robinson (episodes 5 and 6) can even direct two episodes, finest recognized for engaged on initiatives like True Blood and Professor Marston & The Marvel Girl. 

Filming finally received underway on season 2 of Wednesday in early Might 2024.  Al Gough and Miles Millar mentioned on the time of manufacturing starting:

“We’re thrilled that the complete Addams household might be enrolling in Nevermore Academy this season together with a dream solid of icons and new faces.”

We previously heard that filming will continue through November 2024, with the preliminary wrap date set for November twentieth, 2024. Quite a few interviews, casting calls, and folks concerned within the present verify this. The second Wednesday season is being filmed underneath the codename NERO.

EXCLUSIVE: Tim Burton Noticed On Set Filming Season 2 Of ‘Wednesday’ At Trinity Faculty Dublin In Eire. – Mark Doyle / SplashNews.com

On Day 4 of Netflix’s Geeked Week, through the reside occasion, Netflix launched its first behind-the-scenes video of the manufacturing of Wednesday season 2. Eagle-eyed followers are certain to supply perception on the whole lot noticed and what extra we will anticipate from the upcoming season.

By the tip of November, a number of solid members, comparable to Catherine Zeta-Jones (Morticia) and Victor Dorobantu (Thing), had already wrapped filming for the second season. Even Jenna Ortega’s makeup artist posted an image to verify her farewell on November twenty second.

It wasn’t till November twenty ninth, when the present formally wrapped its second season, with an image being shared by one of many crew members with a thanks notice stating:

To My Grim Companions

I supply my thanks for the various hours of blood, sweat and ominous lighting that went into this manufacturing. 

If I had the capability for heat, I would even say it was a pleasure. However let’s not get carried away.

Eternally ungrateful, Wednesday Addams.

Image: Reddit

Uncle Fester Wednesday Spin-off and Video Sport Reportedly In The Works

And eventually, we must always notice that Bloomberg reported in December 2023 {that a} attainable spin-off sequence is creating on the streamer. They are saying that growth has begun on an Uncle Fester present with Fred Armisen eyed to return.

As well as, Wednesday goes to be one of many reveals getting a Netflix cellular recreation adaptation to take a seat alongside the 100+ different video games on the service. Particulars are underneath wraps presently. 

15 Behind-the-Scenes Details about Wednesday season 2

Netflix has launched 15 nice details in regards to the behind-the-scenes of Wednesday season 2:

1. Wednesday Season 2 is narratively impressed by classics together with Frankenstein, Night time of the Residing Lifeless, Shock Hall, and even One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
2. Wednesday’s make-up tends towards cool blue tones to present her an intentiona,l almost-dead look.
3. Grandmama Hester Frump’s barely-there lipstick shade may be described as “no-color colour.”Her model, particularly her hair, is essentially influenced by Daphne Guinness.
4. Isadora Capri’s model was largely impressed by Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine. Billie Piper was additionally impressed by Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon’s characters in The Witches of Eastwick, in addition to by Lisa Bonet, Kate Bush, and Stevie Nicks.
5.  Enid Sinclair’s Season 2 hair colour is extra intense than ever. The shorter reduce is impressed by cyberpunk sensibilities. The remainder of Wednesday’s werewolves owe the form of their haircuts to the look of precise wolves.
6. The waves of siren Bianca Barclay’s tightly shorn reduce are supposed to evoke the waves of the ocean. Different sirens are likely to have very slick hair, as if they simply got here out of the water.
7. Fred Armisen truly shaved his hair off for Uncle Fester’s iconic bald look.
8. Victor Dorobantu, who performs Factor, needed to do the whole lot one-handed on filming days to take care of his make-up. That meant from getting dressed to consuming lunch, Dorobantu was solely utilizing his proper hand.
9. Steve Buscemi primarily based his search for Principal Dort on Edgar Allan Poe. His wig was designed to match that aesthetic.
10. The brand new season was filmed in and round Dublin. Charleville Citadel served because the corridors of Nevermore Academy, with manufacturing additionally heading to Kilternan, Clonliffe, and Roundwood.
11. Set decorator Neville Gaynor created wallpaper primarily based on the illustrations of Irish stained-glass artist Harry Clarke. The Dublin inventive illustrated the duvet of Edgar Allan Poe’s first guide; Poe’s works are a significant affect in Wednesday, all the way down to the title of Nevermore Academy.
12. Actually, there’s a portrait of Poe hiding in plain sight at Nevermore — keep watch over Principal Dort’s workplace.
13. Panels of wallpaper all through the season depict varied Poe tales, together with Ligeia, The Masque of the Pink Loss of life, The Inform-Story Coronary heart, and The Fall of the Home of Usher.
14. Wednesday’s mom is darkening Nevermore’s door — and constructing Morticia’s unbelievable cottage interiors took about 9 weeks.
15. A few of Wednesday’s most enjoyable Season 2 units have been constructed the place Vikings: Valhalla was beforehand filmed.

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