Tim Burton’s Wednesday Cast Adds Catherine Zeta-Jones – /Film

Snap snap: Catherine Zeta-Jones has been forged to play Addams household matriarch Morticia Addams in Wednesday, the upcoming live-action Netflix collection from famed filmmaker Tim Burton. This casting comes sizzling on the heels of a report final week that beloved character actor Luis Guzmán (Boogie Nights) can be taking part in Gomez Addams, so the forged is beginning to form up properly. You actress Jenna Ortega, who confirmed up in The Babysitter: Killer Queen and can subsequent be seen within the new Scream film, is taking part in the title character within the collection.

Our Addams household is increasing! 

Catherine Zeta-Jones will step into the long-lasting silhouette of Morticia Addams whereas Luis Guzmán will deliver to life the debonair Gomez Addams within the upcoming TV collection Wednesday, starring Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams and directed by Tim Burton. pic.twitter.com/MiofyWIbwy

— Netflix (@netflix) August 9, 2021

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Zeta-Jones is an excellent option to play Morticia Addams, the stoic mom of Wednesday and Pugsley Addams. Morticia is deeply in love together with her husband Gomez, and he or she appears to take pleasure in throwing him into suits of uncontrollable need with just a few phrases. Zeta-Jones, who has incessantly been portrayed as an object of need in mainstream American initiatives, ought to have the ability to lean into that pigeonholing right here. Whereas she’s arguably finest identified for her bodily work in movies like Chicago, The Masks of Zorro, and Entrapment, she additionally has a sure stillness as a performer which I feel will serve her extremely properly on this position. It additionally marks a reunion between Zeta-Jones and Guzmán: the 2 beforehand appeared in Steven Soderbergh’s cartel drama Visitors greater than twenty years in the past.

The Hollywood Reporter describes this as a “visitor star” position, so don’t anticipate her to take heart stage right here in the identical means that earlier iterations of the character have in earlier Addams Household diversifications.

Tim Burton (Batman, Beetlejuice) will direct all eight episodes of Wednesday, which feels very a lot according to the aesthetic he has carved out for himself in his thirty-plus yr profession, virtually to the purpose the place his involvement right here appears like self-parody. Even with the present’s barely totally different method to this story — it follows Wednesday as she heads off to Nevermore Academy as an alternative of primarily specializing in the antics of your complete Addams household — this very a lot appears like acquainted floor for the director, who solely 5 years in the past directed Miss Peregrine’s Residence for Peculiar Kids. This new collection hails from creators and showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar, the fellows behind The CW’s long-running superhero drama Smallville and the AMC motion collection Into the Badlands, so maybe the mixture of their oversight and Burton’s route will end in one thing that feels particular as an alternative of overly self-aware.

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