Netflix has announced Eva Green is to join the cast of Wednesday season 3 in a key role

While Wednesday season 3 is some way off, what we imagine will be a prolonged trickle of news items has started. Cue the news Eva Green is to join the series as Ophelia Frump.

Where have I seen Eva Green before, and who is Ophelia Frump

Many mysteries remain about the fate of Ophelia Frump, but after years of dark speculation, she now has a face: French actor Eva Green (Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, Dark Shadows) joins the upcoming third season of Wednesday as the allegedly missing sister of Morticia Addams (Catherine Zeta-Jones) — or, as Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) and Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) have always referred to her, Aunt Ophelia. Her casting also marks a reunion with longtime collaborator director Tim Burton.

With a few spoilers, the press release linked above also reminds us:

Although she wasn’t seen until the final episode of Season 2 — and only from behind, wearing a flower crown and scribbling “Wednesday must die” on a wall — the specter of Aunt Ophelia has long loomed like an ominous cloud over Wednesday. Throughout the second season, Morticia describes her sister as missing after she lost control of her powers as a Raven. This is a disturbing parallel to Wednesday’s loss of psychic abilities, which led to black tears streaming from her eyeballs. When Morticia hands Wednesday Ophelia’s old journal at the end of Season 2, Wednesday’s powers come firing back in the form of a dreadful vision: Ophelia locked away in a dungeon-like room in Grandmama Hester’s (Joanna Lumley) mansion. This raises all sorts of new questions for Season 3.

As far as we’re concerned, next term at Evermore can’t come too soon. We’ll bring more news as we get it.