Deadline reports that Wednesday on Netflix will have a new face in season two. According to sources who spoke with Deadline, Steve Buscemi (Grown Ups, Pulp Fiction) has joined the cast of the Jenna Ortega (Scream, The Fallout) led series in an unspecified capacity. Information about season two is being withheld.
Tim Burton (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands) directed and executive produced the coming-of-age comedy, which was created by Al Gough (Charlie’s Angels, The Shannara Chronicles) and Miles Millar (Into the Badlands, The Strip), according to Deadline. Other executive producers include those from Kayla Alpert (Petals On the Wind, Flowers in the Attic), Glickmania’s Jonathan Glickman (Rush Hour, 27 Dresses), Gail Berman (Elvis, Virtuality), Tommy Harper (Top Gun: Maverick, Star Trek: Beyond), Kevin Lafferty (Camp Rock 2: Final Jam: Twitches Too), Toluca Pictures’ Steve Stark (Fargo, The Handmaid’s Tale), 1.21 Entertainment’s Andrew Mittman (The Addams Family, Alphas), and Tee and Charles Addams Foundation’s Kevin Miserocchi (The Addams Family 2, The Little Girl with the Big Voice).
A detective story with a supernatural twist, the Addams Family spinoff follows Ortega’s Wednesday Addams during her time as a student at Nevermore Academy. There, while juggling her new and complicated relationships at Nevermore, she tries to master her developing psychic ability, stop a terrifying killing spree that has terrorized the town, and unravel the paranormal mystery that engulfed her parents 25 years ago.
Aside from Thora Birch (Hocus Pocus, The Walking Dead), Riki Lindhome (Knives Out, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), Jamie McShane (Thor, Gone Girl), Hunter Doohan (Your Honor, Truth Be Told), Georgie Farmer (Treadstone, Evermoor), Moosa Mostafa (The Last Bus, Nativity Rocks!), Emma Myers (Family Switch, Girl in the Basement), Naomi J. Ogawa (Skylines, Assassin), Joy Sunday (Dear White People, The Beta Test), Percy Hynes White (The Gifted, Pretty Hard Cases), Deadline reports that Luis Guzmán (Code Black, Shameless) as Gomez Addams and Catherine Zeta-Jones (Prodigal Son, Queen America) as matriarch Morticia Addams were also part of the season one cast.
According to Deadline, the most recent independent drama that Buscemi directed, The Listener, starred Tessa Thompson (Creed, Thor: Ragnarok). He appeared in the TBS anthology comedy series Miracle Workers as Daniel Radcliffe’s (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Escape from Pretoria) co-star for four seasons. He received two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Emmy nominations, and a Golden Globe for his performance in the HBO drama Boardwalk Empire. In addition, he received nominations for a Guest Actor Emmy for his performances on NBC’s 30 Rock and IFC’s Portlandia, as well as a nomination for a Best Supporting Actor Emmy for his work as Tony Blundetto in season five of The Sopranos.