And we've never seen her on screen this much. We didn’t want to make her sound like every other teenage girl, but we also didn’t want to make her too ignorant. Her snarky, snide remarks might not necessarily sound as charming when they're coming from somebody who should probably know better than a 10-year-old girl. Talking about the iconic role, Ortega said: "Wednesday is currently a teenager, and we've never seen her as a teenager before. This is a new chapter in Wednesday Addams life." "This is really a show about exploring her journey into adult life," says showrunner Alfred Gough".įellow showunner Miles Millar adds: "It was really important to us that this wasn't a remake or reboot. Netflix has released an 'Inside the Character' film with Tim Burton, Catherine Zeta Jones and Ortega explaining how this version of the character will be different to any we've seen before. You may have previously seen Ortega in You, The Babysitter: Killer Queen, Jennifer Garner’s Yes Day, Jane the Virgin or Scream (2022). Jenna Ortega is the latest actress to play the role of Wednesday Addams. Wednesday: Secrets from the Set with Jenna Ortega and Tim Burton Who is playing Wednesday Addams? Season One will follow Wednesday as she attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the murder mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago - all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore. Wednesday is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting 16-year-old Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Netflix has revealed the following description of the series… Rather than being set within the walls of the Addams Family Mansion, this new eight-part series will focus on the unsmiling Wednesday and her time at Nevermore Academy. The maiden of macabre, previously played on screen by Lisa Loring, Christina Ricci, and Chloë Grace Moretz, is being updated for 2022 with legendary director Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Batman) making his TV directorial debut on the spooky series. Sixty years after she first appeared on black-and-white tellies, original emo child Wednesday Addams is finally getting her live-action, coming-of-age TV series - and it looks unmissable.
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