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Eva Green joins Netflix's Wednesday Season 3 as Aunt Ophelia, a character missing for 20 years and revealed alive in Season 2's finale, expanding the Addams family story.
- Eva Green, the actress, joins Wednesday's season three cast as Aunt Ophelia, marking the first major addition announced, TheWrap reported on Wednesday.
- After the Season 2 finale revealed Ophelia Frump alive and locked in a cell in Hester Frump's basement, Wednesday Addams saw a vision of her with long blond hair.
- The finale's imagery—red dress and a bloody message—cast Ophelia Frump as a direct threat, showing her scrawling `Wednesday must die` on the cell wall in blood.
- Green's casting effectively ends theories linking Lady Gaga's Rosalyn Rottwood to Ophelia, while Netflix says it is keeping additional Season 3 details under wraps.
- Green's prior collaborations with Tim Burton underscore her fit for the role, as creators Al Gough and Miles Millar praised her screen presence as elegant and haunting.
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