Netflix has sent Wednesday Addams to the City of Light, and she is not impressed.
The streamer released the first official image from “Wednesday” Season 3 on Monday, showing Jenna Ortega’s deadpan heroine posed in front of the Eiffel Tower with Thing, the Addams family’s sentient hand, perched on the seat of a motorcycle beside her. Wednesday clutches a piece of paper, stares off past the camera, and looks roughly as thrilled to be in Paris as she’s ever looked about anything. The caption reads, “From Paris, with dread. De Paris, avec effroi.”
It’s a tease.
The motorcycle in the shot is the giveaway. Season 2 ended with Wednesday climbing into the sidecar of Uncle Fester’s bike, played by Fred Armisen, and setting off to track down her roommate Enid Sinclair, the werewolf played by Emma Myers who went full alpha and bolted into the wilderness after her transformation locked in. That hunt was pointed toward Canada when the credits rolled. Apparently the trail has widened.
Whether Enid is actually in France is anyone’s guess, and Netflix isn’t saying. The season’s other loose thread involves Ophelia, Morticia Addams’ long-presumed-dead sister, who will be played by Eva Green and who was revealed at the end of Season 2 to be very much alive and possibly gunning for her niece. Either storyline could plausibly drag Wednesday across the Atlantic.
Principal photography has been based in Ireland since late February, with Nevermore Academy’s exteriors anchored outside Dublin. The Paris shoot is a short one. According to local reporting, filming in the French capital started April 18 and is expected to wrap today, April 20, giving the production just a three-day window on the ground before the crew heads back to the main soundstages.
The cast keeps growing. Winona Ryder, a longtime Tim Burton collaborator, signed on earlier this year in an undisclosed role, joining returning regulars Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia, Luis Guzmán as Gomez, Hunter Doohan as Tyler, and Joanna Lumley, who has been promoted to series regular as Grandmama Hester Frump. Chris Sarandon is aboard as a character named Balthazar, a name that pings for Addams Family trivia obsessives because a Cousin Balthazar exists in the broader mythology, supposedly dead, and supposedly the reason Gomez and Morticia first met at his funeral.
Further additions announced in early April include Lena Headey of “Game of Thrones,” Andrew McCarthy of “St. Elmo’s Fire,” and James Lance of “Ted Lasso,” all booked as guest stars in roles Netflix has kept under wraps. Noah Taylor, Oscar Morgan, and Kennedy Moyer have also joined the ensemble. Noah B. Taylor, who played Enid’s love interest Bruno in Season 2, has exited the show.
No premiere date yet. Given the scale of the shoot and the post-production work involved, “Wednesday” Season 3 isn’t expected to land on Netflix until sometime in 2027.
