Christina Ricci Is Actually Returning for Tim Burton’s Wednesday

Let the Riccissance proceed! After dazzling in Yellowjackets and scene-stealing in The Matrix Resurrections, Christina Ricci has lastly joined a venture she all however made attainable. Ricci has joined the forged of Netflix’s upcoming Tim Burton sequence Wednesday, which stars Scream’s Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, a personality Ricci shot to cult standing together with her big-screen portrayal within the Nineteen Nineties.

Deadline broke the information of the casting which was then confirmed by Netflix. “Yes, it’s true, the magnificent Christina Ricci is joining the cast of the new Wednesday Addams series as an exciting new character snap snap,” the streamer tweeted. There’s no phrase on who particularly Ricci performs but it surely’s not Wednesday after all, as Ortega is taking part in her, neither is it some time-travel older Wednesday. It’s additionally not Morticia Addams, who’s performed by Catherine Zeta-Jones. (Luis Guzmán is Gomez should you had been questioning.)

The solely element concerning the position is that, based on Deadline, it’s a sequence common that’s principally taking on for Thora Birch, who was forged and needed to depart the manufacturing as a result of a private matter. Ricci isn’t taking part in the identical character however a brand new one “who is similar to the one originally played by Birch and will replace it on the show.” The commerce additionally studies that Ricci has been filming on the present in Romania for weeks already.

Whomever she’s taking part in, her involvement takes what was already a really thrilling present and provides it an entire new stage of legitimacy. And that’s after we already heard the sequence was being directed by none apart from Tim Burton. Ricci performed the character in each 1991’s The Addams Family and 1993’s Addams Family Values. And although the Addams have returned just a few instances since, most notably within the in style animated movies, followers have lengthy held Ricci’s efficiency of their hearts. Her reunion with the Sleepy Hollow director to assist inform the story of Wednesday fixing crimes whereas away at college might actually be one thing particular.

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