Thora Birch and Jamie McShane cast in Netflix’s Wednesday series
By Renee Hansen
The Walking Dead Universe actors Thora Birch and Jamie McShane have been cast in Netflix’s live-action series Wednesday. Tim Burton is directing the series in his first televised directorial effort.
Thora Birch played Mary/Gamma in Alpha’s group The Whisperers. She and her sister Frances joined the Whisperers after several failed attempts to join other groups. When Alpha made Frances abandon her baby, she can’t live with this fact and attacks her. Mary saves Alpha and is later anointed Gamma, being made third in charge of the group. She eventually finds her nephew and at the same time finds Lydia, Alpha’s daughter, who she thought dead; this alters her view of the Whisperers leader. She eventually sacrifices herself for her nephew and those caring for him, realizing the mistakes she has made.
Jamie McShane starred in the first spinoff series, Fear the Walking Dead, in season 1. He played Lt. Moyers, a soldier in the US Military. At the beginning of the outbreak, he is assigned to Travis’s neighborhood and charged with clearing the area and seeing that everyone submits to the health screenings. He was last seen entering the library with his squad; they exited without him, claiming he will never come out.
Netflix’s Wednesday series casting
It is always exciting to see our Walking Dead Universe cast members starring in new roles. Both Thora Birch and Jamie McShane will be in Netflix’s new series Wednesday. Deadline has reported that Birch and McShane will join the cast along with Riki Lindhome, Hunter Doohan, Georgie Farmer, Moosa Mostafa, Emma Myers, Naomi J. Ogawa, Joy Sunday and Percy Hynes White.
Previous cast announcements included Jenna Ortega as Wednesday, Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia and Luis Guzmán as Gomez.
This will be a coming-of-age story about Wednesday Addams and her years as a student at Nevermore Academy.
Netflix official synopsis:
"The series is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore."
Birches character is named Tamara Novak, the only normie on staff at Nevermore Academy who is Wednesday dorm mother.
McShane is Sherrif Donovan Galpin, who has never liked Nevermore Academy and has always had a vendetta against former student Gomez Addams.
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With this much casting news, more production news is sure to follow.
Congrats to Thora Birch and Jamie McShane on their roles in the Wednesday series for Netflix.