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Anthony Michael Hall joins Season 2 cast of 'Wednesday'

By Karen Butler   |   May 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM

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Alan Ritchson (L) and Anthony Michael Hall in a scene from "Reacher" Season 3. Hall this week signed on for a role in Netflix's "Wednesday." File Photo courtesy of Prime Video Left to right, Matthew Broderick, Macaulay Culkin, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Jon Cryer and Anthony Michael Hall appear backstage at the Academy Awards in 2010. The actors, all of whom starred in Brat Pack movies, participated in a tribute to director John Hughes. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Jenna Ortega arrives for the Vanity Fair Oscar Party at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif., in March. File Photo by Chris Chew/UPI

May 1 (UPI) -- Reacher and Bosch: Legacy alum Anthony Michael Hall has joined the cast of the Netflix series Wednesday for its second season.

Variety said no details have been announced yet regarding the role, which will reunite Hall with Tim Burton, his director on the 1990 movie Edward Scissorhands.

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Hall, 57, shared a screenshot of the casting news on his official Instagram page.

Starring Jenna Ortega, Wednesday is the latest addition to The Addams Family franchise and focuses on the moody titular teen's adventures at boarding school.

Hall started his career as a teen in the 1980s classics Vacation, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Weird Science.

He later starred in The Pirates of Silicon Valley, The Dead Zone, Awkward, The Goldbergs, Halloween Kills and Trigger Warning.