Before he says anything further, Hunter Doohan issues an apology.
“I’m sorry it took three years,” the actor says of “Wednesday,” the hit Netflix series he stars in, and its upcoming second season. The show became a sensation when it premiered in 2022, and at long last the new season will arrive in August — part one, at least.
In the meantime, the show’s cast has become stars, including 31-year-old Doohan, who plays Tyler Galpin. Doohan is freshly back from Paris, where he attended Saint Laurent’s men’s show during fashion week.
“I’ve gotten to go to a few [fashion shows] since ‘Wednesday’ came out, which has been such an unexpected side effect of the whole whirlwind of ‘Wednesday,’ but yeah, it’s still very new to me,” he says over a Zoom call from his Los Angeles home. “I grew up in Arkansas, so 15-year-old me in Buckle jeans did not foresee sitting at these shows.”
Hunter Doohan gets ready for YSL men’s spring 2026 in Paris.
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For the Saint Laurent show, he opted for a classic suiting separates look, which was the first one he tried on.
“It was the first one I tried on and I loved it, and then I tried on their leather pants and I just immediately was like, ‘Oh, I like the first one,’ but someone on my team was like, ‘I don’t know if you’re a leather guy,’” he says. “I kept thinking of the ‘Devil Wears Prada’ scene where they’re like, ‘Are you wearing the Chanel boots?’”
Highlights of the show experience included seeing the new collection, of course, as well as reuniting with friends who came over from London — and meeting Cristin Milioti at the after party.
“I was obsessed,” he says. “I love her.”
Hunter Doohan gets ready for YSL men’s spring 2026 in Paris.
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Doohan heads out shortly to New Zealand to shoot the new “Evil Dead” movie, where he’ll be when “Wednesday” finally makes its return — and when he can stop worrying about spoiling the show.
“I don’t want to be the Tom Holland of ‘Wednesday,’” he says, alluding to the “Spider-Man” actor’s revealing of spoilers during press appearances. “I feel like a jerk sometimes in these interviews, I’m like, ‘I can’t say that. I can’t say anything.’”
He can say that the new season is “bigger and better” than the first. While season one of “Wednesday” saw Tyler initially as a barista at the local coffee shop who was later uncovered to be a hyde, season two has him more in the fantasy of it all.
“It was really fun to be in the Tim Burton world a bit more because I’m not pretending to be the nice boyfriend barista,” Doohan says. “So this time I really felt like from the start I was living in the heightened genre of the world the whole time.”
Hunter Doohan gets ready for YSL men’s spring 2026 in Paris.
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Doohan grew up in Fort Smith, Ark., and fell in love with acting, and theater specifically, when he auditioned for the school musical his sophomore year of high school.
“I never saw film and TV as an option growing up there, even though I loved it. It just truly never even crossed my mind as something I could even try to pursue, whereas theater felt realistic,” he says. “We had our high school theater and our community theater.”
Rather than pursue a degree in musical theater, he decided to try moving to L.A. and giving it a shot – and he’s been there ever since.
Beyond “Wednesday” and “Evil Dead Burn,” he’ll be seen in an independent film called “The Wilderness” this fall. After that, he’s wondering if he should try his hand at some new roles.
“I think I need to maybe play a few less murderers,” he jokes. “Maybe do a comedy.”
