Netflix Wednesday: Is Johnny Depp Playing Uncle Fester? Rumors Explained
3 min readWednesday cast might have Johnny Depp as one of the key character in it and that’s what rumours has to say. Well, Addams family and Tim Burton’s connection is known to all. However, for those who doesn’t know, he has been executive producer and director for a few of the episodes of The Addams Family drama. But latest rumours says Johnny Depp is in for next Addams drama. Is that really so?
Read ahead to know more about Johnny Depp’s casting rumours for Wednesday.
Tim Burton to direct Netflix series Wednesday
Tim Burton’s new directorial work comes with the Netflix series Wednesday. Which is based on Wednesday Addams of The Addams family. With a strong connection between Addams family and Tim. We have lately been seeing fans curious to have the drama air on Netflix soon.
Well, hence the comedy horror series is arriving in the fourth quarter of this year on Netflix. Not to miss, the cast list of the drama is a long one. Where one of the character is in rumours to be having Johnny Depp playing it. Could that be true?
Is Johnny Depp playing a role in Netflix’s Wednesday?
Advertisement
The confirmed cast of Wednesday by Tim Burton has Jenna Ortega playing Wednesday Addams, Luis Guzman playing Gomez Addams. While Catherine Zeta-Jones is playing Morticia Addams and the cast goes on and on. However, there’s rumours surrounding the role of Uncle Fester.
According to some rumours on internet, Uncle Fester is believed to be played by none other but Johnny Depp. However, there’s no confirmation and information to prove that it is really so. Hence, one cannot confirm that Johnny Depp could be in Wednesday of Burton.
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp connection
The rumour of Depp playing Uncle Fester in Wednesday could also be because of past collabs between Depp and Burton. As previously they have worked for Ed Wood and Dark Shadows. Yet, that can’t make things certain for him in Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Uncle Fester in the nineties was for Christopher Llyod. Hence, it would be interesting to see who plays Uncle Fester now and if Johnny Depp really gets his way to Wednesday of Burton or not. As fans would love to see if he gets that role to play in Netflix horror comedy.