Following last week’s news that Jaz Sinclair will be joining Kiernan Shipka in Netflix’s upcoming new Sabrina series, now comes word on two further new additions for the show.
As per Deadline, Doctor Who’s Michelle Gomez and newcomer Chance Perdomo have joined the series. The official blurb on what roles the duo will be playing read as below:
- Michelle Gomez as Sabrina’s favourite teacher, Mary Wardell: When she is possessed by the Devil’s handmaiden, Madam Satan, Ms. Wardwell turns into a sultry, cunning manipulator, always trying to lure Sabrina down the Path of Night.
- Chance Perdomo as Sabrina’s warlock cousin, Ambrose Spellman: Placed under house-arrest by the Witches Council, Ambrose is forbidden from leaving the funeral home where he lives with the Spellman women. Witty, puckish and pan-sexual, he is one of Sabrina’s partners in crime, always up for mischief.
The early word on this to-be-titled Sabrina series reads:
Sabrina is based on the comic book Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which reimagines the origin and adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horror, the occult and, of course, witchcraft. Tonally in the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, this adaptation finds Sabrina wrestling to reconcile her dual nature – half-witch, half-mortal – while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit.
With Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa on showrunner duties, the aforementioned Kiernan Shipka is playing the titular teenage witch, with Jaz Sinclair playing her bestest bud, Rosalind.
