{"id":101574,"date":"2018-02-21T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=101574"},"modified":"2018-02-21T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T01:30:10","slug":"sabrina-tv-series-adds-miranda-otto-as-aunt-zelda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/sabrina-tv-series-adds-miranda-otto-as-aunt-zelda\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina TV series adds Miranda Otto as Aunt Zelda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the news that\u00a0<em><strong>The Office\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and\u00a0<em><strong>Wonder Woman<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;s Lucy Davis has been cast as Aunt Hilda in Netflix&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>Sabrina The Teenage Witch<\/strong><\/em> reboot earlier this week, we were expecting an Aunt Zelda casting announcement to follow. That announcement is here.<\/p>\n<p>Miranda Otto (who played Eowyn in\u00a0<em><strong>The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and\u00a0<em><strong>Return Of The King<\/strong><\/em>, as well as Mary Ann in\u00a0<em><strong>War Of The Worlds<\/strong><\/em>)\u00a0is taking on the role. <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/tv\/news\/netflix-sabrina-the-teenage-witch-series-aunt-zelda-miranda-otto-1202705766\/\">Variety<\/a> describes Zelda as &#8220;proud and devout,&#8221; and she &#8220;believes there is no greater honour than serving the Dark Lord as a member of the Church of Night. She is the family\u2019s disciplinarian, fiercely protective of Sabrina, and very much Cain to aunt Hilda\u2019s Abel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Otto also joins\u00a0<em><strong>Mad Men<\/strong><\/em>\u2018s Kiernan Shipka as Sabrina Spellman,\u00a0<em><strong>Doctor Who<\/strong><\/em>\u2018s Michelle Gomez as Mary Wardell, Sabrina\u2019s favourite teacher and mentor at Baxter High, and newcomer Chance Perdomo as Sabrina\u2019s warlock cousin Ambrose Spellman, who has been placed under house arrest by the Witches Council and is forbidden from leaving the Spellman\u2019s funeral home.<\/p>\n<p>The new series will revolve around Sabrina\u2019s origins. In the comics, the witch was born to a warlock father and a mortal mother before she was promised to Satan as an infant and was set to be placed in a coven to grow up with a group of other witches.<\/p>\n<p>However, her mother didn\u2019t want that life for her daughter and attempted to run away with her. When the escape plan inevitably failed, Sabrina was sent to Greendale (a neighbouring town to Riverdale) to live with her aunts, Hilda and Zelda.<\/p>\n<p>According to Deadline, the\u00a0<em><strong>Sabrina<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0series will be \u201ctonally in the vein of\u00a0<em><strong>Rosemary\u2019s Baby<\/strong><\/em>and\u00a0<em><strong>The Exorcist<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d and finds Sabrina \u201cwrestling to reconcile her dual nature \u2014 half-witch, half-mortal \u2014 while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The untitled<em>\u00a0Sabrina\u00a0<\/em>series\u00a0doesn\u2019t yet have an air date. Get all the latest fantasy news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miranda Otto is the Aunt Zelda to Lucy Davis&#8217; Aunt Hilda in Netflix&#8217;s Sabrina series<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":101575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[6006,6008],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/video-i-frankenstein-miranda-otto-on-the-story-superJumbo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}