Luis reveals: "Times are different now, and the characters are different. We bring a whole new layer, plus it’s Tim Burton. Fans are going to love our family!" However, Shane isn't just a movie guy. He also loves video games. Super Mario Sunshine, The Last of Us Part 1 and 2, and Batman: Arkham City are some of his favorites. Music plays a big part in his life as well. Given that Shane's a big horror fan, you might be surprised to learn that he's a pop guy. Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa, The Jonas Brothers, and Demi Lovato play on repeat while he's writing. Wildly passionate about his one true love, Morticia, he’ll stop at nothing to protect his family. But what is his connection to Nevermore’s murky past? Catherine says: "Morticia is such an iconic female figure, but I put my own twist on her. I didn't want to play her as a Halloween-costumed caricature; I wanted to find the root of her, in that she’s a mother-of-two and extremely in love with her husband."

Thora Birch( The Walking Dead) was playing Tamara Novak but left the show due to personal reasons. Tamara is a staff member at Nevermore Academy with a focus on botanical classes who's also Wednesday’s "dorm mother." An expert in botany and Wednesday’s ‘dorm mom’, Miss Thornhill is Nevermore’s first and only teacher without any supernatural powers. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Wednesday's mother Morticia Addams. Catherine is married to Hollywood star Michael Douglas and became famous for the British series The Darling Buds of May before going on to make a name in Hollywood for movies such as The Mask of Zorro, Entrapment and Chicago, for which she won an Academy Award in 2002. Mank star Jamie McShane is playing Sheriff Donovan Galpin, who's always had an issue with Nevermore Academy plus a long-held vendetta against former student there Gomez Addams. Hunter Doohanof Your Honor fame plays the Sheriff's son Tyler Galpin, a local who becomes good friends with Wednesday Addams. Tyler has a troubled relationship with his father. Much-loved character Thing has a key part in this series so it must have been fun filming with a severed hand. Jenna says: "It was like working with any other actor, but when Victor Dorobantu, who plays Thing, wasn’t on set, we had a suitcase full of severed hands that would stand in. We’d be like, ‘Today, we want the flimsy one, or the stoic one.’ But, honestly, Thing is Wednesday’s best friend and she’d do anything for him. He’s the unsung hero of the show!Catherine says:-"They’re going to love this series because it’s brought the story into the 21st century and the family is dealing with issues that are relevant today. I also can't imagine how excited fans are to have a director like Tim Burton bring them the next edition of Addams Family adventures. As for the students at Nevermore Academy, Joy Sunday( Dear White People) plays popular student Bianca Barclay, who comes from a long line of Sirens with a mesmerizing power to persuade.Percy Hynes White( The Gifted) is charismatic and supernaturally artistic student Xavier Thorpe, who comes from a wealthy family thanks to his celebrity psychic father. Georgie Farmer( Treadstone)is Ajax Petropolis, a shy and awkward Nevermore Academy student who's also a Gorgon. He's very anxious about looking anyone in the eye. Take a look at Jenna Ortega as iconic teen Wednesday Addams with the rest of her Addams Family, including Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán above. Wednesday’s brother is obsessed with violence but has a big heart and idolises his sister. How will he cope with his partner in crime at boarding school?

Issac Ordonezcan be seen as Wednesday's brother Pugsley Addams,while Victor Dorobantu is the famously hairy and bespectacled Thing andGeorge Burcea plays the family's overly tall servant Lurch. Wednesday causing trouble at her new school Nevermore Academy! (Image credit: Netflix) Who's who — our guide to the main cast of WednesdayHow did you feel when you stepped into your costumes for the first time?Catherine says: "We didn’t want to put Morticia in trousers just to contemporise her; we wanted to do the iconic look. So when I first put on the dress, hair and makeup, I was just so in it that I could have been Morticia at a petrol station! The charismatic headteacher also happens to be Morticia’s old roommate at Nevermore. Why does she have her beady eye on Wednesday? Catherine says: "They share true and unadulterated love, which leads to way too many public displays of affection and embarrassment for family members! They've been together since they were teenagers, so this shows their real history of love. Other Wednesday stars include Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth in Game Of Thrones)playing Larissa Weems, principal of the supernatural school Nevermore Academy, who holds a long-time grudge against her former classmate Morticia Addams (Catherine Zeta-Jones, see above). A former high-achieving student of Nevermore, she hopes her daughter will follow in her fabulous footsteps. But is Morticia hiding a long-buried secret?

Jenna says she's is excited to take the lead role: "Wednesday is currently a teenager, and we've never seen her as a teenager before. Her snarky, snide remarks might not necessarily sound as charming when they're coming from somebody who should probably know better than a 10-year-old girl. That was a balancing act. We didn’t want to make her sound like every other teenage girl, but we also didn’t want to make her too ignorant. Jenna is best known for her role as Ellie Alves in the second series of Netflix psychological thriller YOU. Ellie was a tech-savvy teen in the series, which starred Penn Badgley as an obsessive serial killer and bookstore clerk Joe Goldberg. And we've never seen her on screen this much. Any other time you've seen Wednesday, she's been the one-liner, the end of a joke, she always hits it, and I think that's what people really love about her. But in this show, every scene is Wednesday. There's an opportunity to give her a bit more dimension, and she becomes a bit more of a real person, which I don't think we've ever seen before. Nevermore school pals... Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Otinger, Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams. (Image credit: Netflix) Wednesday on Netflix — director Tim Burton After Wednesday updates Fester about the investigation and show her uncle Xavier’s ( Percy Hynes White) drawings, he immediately recognizes the monster as a Hyde. As Fester tells Wednesday, Hydes are among the most dangerous and brutal outcasts that roam the world. Wednesday tells her uncle she never found any information about Hydes in Nevermore’s library, which should be the best place to learn anything about all kinds of outcasts. Fester then reveals that there’s a secret diary written by Nathaniel Falkner, Nevermore’s founder, that’s currently kept in a safe in the Nightshades’ headquarters. Since Falkner traveled the world studying outcasts, his diary could have more clues about how to deal with a Hyde.Catherine Zeta-Jones (here with husband Michael Douglas) will play Morticia Addams in Wednesday on Netflix. (Image credit: Getty) Wednesday on Netflix cast — who else is starring In his free time, Shane loves going for runs and playing with his 16-year-old beagle Butterscotch. Butters for short, she has been the greatest love of his and inspires him everyday, both creatively and emtionally. On top of that, he's now a huge collector. He loves Funko Pop, McFarlane Toys, and Neca's huge line of horror figures. In the last two years he has been going to a lot of conversations to buy an unhealthy amount of figures. This has also allowed him to meet some of his favorite filmmakers/actors like Mike Flanagan, Matthew Lillard, John Carpenter, Grace Caroline Curry, Steve Burns and Kathryn Newton.

Although director Tim Burton is a household name when it comes to movies, this is his first directorial foray into television. However, he’s more than used to dealing with dark material having directed Batman (1989) Edward Scissorhands (1990), Corpse Bride (2005) and Alice Through the Looking Glass in 2016. He’s also behind Sleepy Hollow and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory with Johnny Depp, Beetlejuice and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. More about The Addams Family show and other TV adaptations We recap the Netflix series Wednesday season 1, episode 8, “A Murder of Woes,” which contains spoilers and explains the ending. I watched the movies when I was nine years old, but didn’t watch the 1960s TV show until later. I’ve been compared to Wednesday my entire life. I think it's because I tend to be very dry and monotone. But I was so nervous about playing her because I just wanted to do her justice. She’s also a Latina character and that’s never been represented, so I had an opportunity to give other girls that look like me some relatability."The local therapist in Jericho is Dr. Valerie Kinbott, played by Riki Lindhome( Knives Out). She takes a particular interest in her newest patient Wednesday Addams. Christina Ricci, who played Wednesday Addams in the film franchise, has been signed up to play Marylin Thornhill, while Uncle Fester is played by Fred Armisen.