THE RUNDOWN:
- Netflix has announced that Gwendoline Christie‘s much-loved character Larissa Weems is returning for Wednesday Season 2, Part 2
- Weems died at the end of season 1 and left fans speculating as to the possibility of her return
- We don’t yet know how Weems survived her tangle with Laurel Gates in the first season
- Wednesday, Season 2 part 2 will release September 3, 2025
Nevermore’s most impeccably tailored spectral presence is returning. Netflix has confirmed Larissa Weems (Gwendoline Christie) will be back in Wednesday season 2, Part 2, arriving September 3. While plot specifics remain under wraps, the comeback taps straight into the show’s most enduring obsessions: in a world this gothic, death is rarely the final word. That’s right, according to a new trailer for Wednesday Season 2, Part 2 Weems is back in unexpected form.
Weems appears in the new trailer as Wednesday’s (that’s Jenna Ortega’s) new spirit guide. As Wednesday lies recovering in a hospital bed, Weems greets her with a “Rise and shine, sleepy head! Ready for your sponge barth?” For most of us, this kind of greeting from a former teacher would be horrifying news, spectral presence or not, but Weems is a much-loved character in the Wednesday universe, so fans might be as pleased as Wednesday Addams is seemingly dumbfounded. It does seem that Wednesday is the only character who can see Principal Weems who will no doubt be helping her out as she embarks on a mission to kill Tyler, the barista-turned-villain
Who Is Principal Weems?
For newcomers or Weems fans with short memories, here’s a recap on what happened in Part 1 of Wednesday and why her return matters.
Principal Larissa Weems, the elegant leader of Nevermore Academy, possesses shapeshifting abilities, a spine of steel, and Old Hollywood style in spades, with a soft spot for her students. In her school days, she roomed with Wednesday’s mother, Morticia Addams, an experience that seeded a lifelong and deliciously thorny rivalry. As the leader of Nevermore Academy, Weems is in charge of protecting a school full of outcasts, including Wednesday Addams, played by Jenna Ortega. Wednesday, of course, has her own prickly relationship with her mother, Morticia, meaning she and Principal Weems are naturally sympatico.
Is Principal Weems Dead On Wednesday?
No, Netflix has confirmed that Larissa Weems is back, although we can’t be sure whether it’s in flashback sequences or if she really is back from the dead.
What Happened To Principal Weems?
In Season 1, Principal Weems was one of several characters to experience a shocking fate when Nevermore Academy teacher Marilyn Thornhill is revealed to be villainous Laurel Gates in disguise, who manipulated Tyler’s Hyde into attacking outcasts and normies at the school before Laurel herself turned on Principal Weems, Wednesday and Thing. Goody Addams heals on Wednesday, and Uncle Fester resurrects Thing, but Larissa Weems is stabbed in the neck with nightshade poison and drops to the ground.
What Was Gwendoline Christie’s Inspiration For Principal Larissa Weems’ Look?
Gwendoline Christie, of Game of Thrones fame, has talked about the freedom she was given to build Weem’s look and character. She told Entertainment Weekly that Tim Burton gave her free rein in crafting Weems’ character. “He said, ‘You can do whatever you like with the character, feel free to make it whatever you want, and we’ll keep talking about it. And that was an unbelievable opportunity from this great cinematic master.”
Christie started with Weem’s look.
“This idea kept coming to me of Larissa Weems being someone who was an outcast, who went to a school for outcasts, that was always second best and was always in Morticia’s shadow.” Christie looked to the tragic heroines of Hitchcockian cinema to build Weems’ steely facade and allude to her softer heart.
“What kept coming to me was this idea of this Hitchcock-style heroin, this screen siren, that maybe that young woman would look to our mystic portal, the cinema, to be an incarnation of her fantasies.” Christie and costume designer Colleen Atwood referenced Tippi Hedren and Kim Novak. “I wanted to push that idea. I like to transform into characters and people that are very far away from myself, and I would never be cast as this part. It wasn’t an opportunity to create that and to inhabit that sort of impenetrable, imperious character with that classic idea of femininity. But whereas Hitchcock heroines tend to have all sorts of trauma being exacted upon them, for this to be a woman who was in charge of her own fate, who was ruthlessly ambitious and who was willingly putting herself into dangerous and extreme situations, was exciting to me.”
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