Official 'Wednesday' Trailer Reveals Christina Ricci, Fred Armisen's Role As Uncle Fester

Netflix's official trailer for upcoming comedy horror series "Wednesday" has been unveiled at New York Comic Con, with comedian Fred Armisen was revealed to be bald and extremely pale Uncle Fester.

In addition to that, the trailer revealed Christina Ricci's role in the series, which has been shrouded in secrecy since its announcement in March. Ricci played Wednesday Addams in Barry Sonnenfeld's two Addams Family films, 1991's "The Addams Family" and 1993's "Addams Family Values." In "Wednesday," Ricci plays a teacher at Nevermore Academy, where Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) began as a college student, and where she would hone her psychic abilities.

As for Armisen's surprise casting, in the new trailer, Wednesday is pleasantly surprised when an alleged threat turns out to be his uncle Fester, and the two set off in a Dalmatian-patterned motorcycle with a sidecar. Christopher Lloyd played the role of Uncle Fester in 90s films. There were also online rumors that Tim Burton regular Johnny Depp would play the role in the Netflix series, which would have marked his first great acting role since his libel trial. against Amber Heard.

The series features Ortega as the main character, along with other previously announced cast members such as Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams, Gwendoline Christie as Principal Larissa Weems and more. Additional cast includes Percy Hynes White as Xavier Thorpe, Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin, Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair, Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay, Naomi J Ogawa as Yoko Tanaka, Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Ottinger, Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus, Riki Lindhome as Dr. Valerie Kinbott and Ricci as Marilyn Thornhill.

Miles Millar and Al Gough serve as showrunners and executive producers, while eclectic director Tim Burton directs the series for four episodes in addition to executive producing.

Additional executive producers include Steve Stark and Andrew Mittman for 1.21 Entertainment, Kevin Miserocchi for the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation, Kayla Alpert, Jonathan Glickman for Glickmania, Gail Berman, Tommy Harper and Kevin Lafferty.

The series is scheduled to premiere November 23 on the streamer. Check out the trailer below.

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