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Graziadaily
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Graziadaily
The Princess Diaries and Wednesday Season Two Crossover No One Saw Coming
If one of the new Wednesday cast members looks eerily familiar, it's probably because you've seen her before. Heather Matarazzo, who joined cast of the hit Netflix show for season two, is best known for playing Lily Moscovitz in the iconic noughties franchise The Princess Diaries – aka Anne Hathaway's character Mia's right-hand woman. She's back on our screens in the spooky series that follows the life of Wednesday Addams where she plays Judi, an employee at the nearby Willow Hill Psychiatric Facility. With rave reviews of Wednesday after part one dropped, it's worth catching up if you haven't already. Heather Matarazzo and Anne Hathaway in New York. (Photo by Jim Spellman/WireImage) Heather is an American actress from Oyster Bay in New York. She has recently joined the cast of Wednesday on Netflix which has gone down a treat with Princess Diaries fans. Aside from playing the iconic best friend, Lily Moscovitz in The Princess Diaries and its 2004 sequel (and hopefully the reboot which is currently in the works), Heather also played Martha Meeks in Scream 3 and Scream. She made her acting debut at the age of 12 by starring in Welcome to the Dollhouse , which earned her an Independent Spirit Award. No stranger to mysterious characters, Heather now stars as a psychiatric ward worker in Wednesday. After a break from acting due to feeling 'cast aside' by the entertainment industry, Heather landed on her feet with her new role as Judi. In 2022, the actress posted on X: 'I feel at a loss because I feel I have done THE WORK for a long time with no complaint. I have taken the disappointments, the rejections, etc., and maintained that rejection is redirection. I have had continual FAITH in the Universe, but today something broke.' She continued, 'I've given my life to acting for over 30 years and am done struggling just to survive. I just need a win. A life-changing win. Cause this ain't it.' Then along came Netflix and Tim Burton... Yes, Heather is married to her wife, Heather Turman. They live together in Michigan after moving from Los Angeles. 'I just love it here so much,' the actress said of her new home on TikTok. 'There's such an abundance of nature, and everyone's just been so incredibly kind.' You can keep up with Heather and her latest acting adventures on @heathermatarazzo on Instagram and @heathermatarazz on TikTok. Nikki Peach is a writer at Grazia UK, working across entertainment, TV and news. She has also written for the i, i-D and the New Statesman Media Group and covers all things pop culture for Grazia (treating high and lowbrow with equal respect).
Hindustan Times
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Who is the villain in Wednesday season 2? The real crow master was not who anyone expected
Netflix's Wednesday season 2 is not waiting around this season. Just four episodes into Part 1, the show pulls back the curtain on its first major villain, and it is not who fans had pegged. As USA Today reports, it is chirpy Willow Hill assistant Judi Spannegel, played by Heather Matarazzo, who has been commanding a murderous flock of crows in the shadows. Wednesday season 2's villain has been unveiled.(X/@WednesdaysDaily) Season two kicks off with Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) in full detective mode again. This time, she is hunting whoever is threatening her werewolf roommate, Enid (Emma Myers), and orchestrating strange deaths around Nevermore Academy. That trail leads her to Willow Hill Psychiatric Facility, now housing season one's Hyde, Tyler Galpin (Hunter Doohan). She immediately questions the motives of Willow Hill's smiling 'normie' director, Dr. Rachael Fairburn (Thandiwe Newton), and suspects the new Nevermore music teacher, Isadora Capri, may be tied to the mess. But Judi Spannegel? No one saw that coming. Inside the Wednesday season 2 villain twist As revealed in episode four, Judi is not just Fairburn's overly eager assistant. She is the daughter of Augustus Stonehurst - a former Nevermore science teacher and ex-chief psychiatrist at Willow Hill - who ran illegal experiments on Outcasts to steal their powers. His twisted legacy lived on through Judi, who gained powers from her father's testing and carried on his secret work beneath Willow Hill. Also read: Wednesday Season 2 release date: Know all about Lady Gaga's guest role, Part 1 episode details of Jenna Ortega's show As per USA Today, the episode shows Wednesday and Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen) freeing the tortured Outcasts hidden in the asylum's underground lab. Things spiral fast. The inmates rise up. Tyler escapes, kills his former controller, Marilyn Thornhill (Christina Ricci), and throws Wednesday out a second-story window. Her fate is left hanging as the episode ends. Heather Matarazzo's return and tough Hollywood journey Judi's big reveal marks a comeback for Heather Matarazzo, known for roles in Welcome to the Dollhouse and The Princess Diaries. It is her first high-profile part in years. When she first shows up in the series, she is all sunshine and cardigans - but her shift to full-blown villain is chilling. Off-screen, Matarazzo has been open about struggling with Hollywood. In a 2022 thread on X (then Twitter), she wrote: 'I feel at a loss because I feel I have done THE WORK, for a long time, with no complaint… but today, something broke.' She echoed similar thoughts to The Guardian back in 2017, admitting, 'I don't know if I took a step back from Hollywood or Hollywood took a step back from me,' reports USA Today. FAQs Who is the villain in Wednesday season 2? Judi Spannegel is revealed as the first major villain in season two. What episode is the big twist in Wednesday season 2? The reveal happens in episode 4 of the eight-episode season. What happened to Marilyn Thornhill in Wednesday? Tyler Galpin kills her after breaking free from Willow Hill. Who plays Judi in Wednesday season 2? Heather Matarazzo takes on the role of Judi Spannegel.
