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After being absent from Netflix’s Wednesday season 2 solid announcement, Percy Hynes White has confirmed he isn’t returning to the hit sequence.
Taking to social media on Tuesday, Might 7, to handle hypothesis sparked by the streaming service’s official solid reveal, White, 22, had nothing however reward for the critically acclaimed present, which can return to screens in 2025.
“I had a lot enjoyable engaged on this present,” the actor wrote through his Instagram Story alongside {a photograph} of the entire season 2 solid. “I can’t wait to observe season 2. A lot love.”
White, who performed Xavier Thorpe and harbored a crush on Wednesday Addams, performed by Jenna Ortega, in season 1, has confronted claims of sexual assault for the reason that present’s debut.
Netflix has attainable plans to create a Wednesday spinoff round Uncle Fester — however Us has another concepts about the place the story may go. The sequence, which premiered in November 2022, relies on the character Wednesday Addams, who was initially launched in The Addams Household cartoons. The idea later was tailored right into a […]
In early 2023, the hashtag #cancelpercy unfold throughout X, previously Twitter, after a consumer posted concerning the Gifted actor’s accused predatory conduct. The posts have since been deleted.
White was additionally accused of sending photographs of himself to minors and utilizing a racial slur throughout a efficiency.
The actor has vehemently denied the accusations, posting to Instagram in June 2023 to handle the claims.
“Hey everybody. There’s one thing I must make clear,” he wrote on the time. “Earlier this yr, anyone I’ve by no means met began a marketing campaign of misinformation about me on-line. Underage images of me had been used, and examples of me appearing in character had been offered as hateful.”
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White claimed that the rumors had been “false,” including, “I can’t settle for the portrayal of me as somebody bigoted, or criminally negligent of individuals’s security.”
Along with White’s absence, Naomi J. Owaga, who portrayed Nevermore Academy scholar Yoko Tanaka, was additionally omitted from Netflix’s casting reveal earlier this week.
On the flipside, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán, Isaac Ordonez and Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo will all be promoted to sequence regulars for season 2.
Wednesday was the speak of the city when it premiered on Netflix — however not all the discourse was constructive. The sequence reintroduced followers to a brand new model of Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) in November 2022. Throughout season 1, the titular character tried to grasp her psychic powers at Nevermore Academy whereas coping with […]
Steve Buscemi, Billie Piper, Evie Templeton, Owen Painter and Noah Taylor had been additionally revealed as newly added castmembers.
Throughout its first season, which premiered in November 2022, Wednesday nabbed two Golden Globe nominations and a number of other Emmy nominations. The present reimagines the basic character of Wednesday Addams from The Addams Household as she learns to harness her psychic powers after her dad and mom, Gomez and Morticia Addams, ship her to a boarding faculty.
Whereas White might not be returning for the Netflix comedy, he and Ortega, 21, do have one other venture within the works. The pair additionally star collectively within the upcoming Winter Spring Summer time or Fall which can premiere on the Tribeca Movie Competition in New York Metropolis on Thursday, June 6.
White additionally not too long ago wrapped work on Whistle alongside Nick Frost and Dafne Eager.
