Jenna Ortega Felt “Completely Lost And Confused” When She Began Playing Wednesday Addams For Tim Burton
deadline.comThere’s a lot riding on Jenna Ortega’s deadpan performance as Wednesday Addams in Tim Burton’s coming-of-age comedy Wednesday, which debuts — of course — Wednesday, November 23 on Netflix.
She plays the beloved Addams family character in the series, which marks Burton’s first live-action show, as well as his directing debut for such a project.
Ortega spoke recently with the most well-known actress to have played the iconic goth-girl part, Christina Ricci. Turns out, Ricci has a role in this take on Charles Addams’ classic cartoon characters, too. “It was really important to me that I wasn’t doing a knockoff of your performance,” Ortega told Ricci, who first essayed the character in 1991’s The Addams Family. “Another thing is every time we’ve seen Wednesday, she’s been 5 years old, 10 years old.
So when someone is saying really dark, twisted things out of a place of pure honesty and innocence, that naive aspect of a child, it’s a bit different when you get older and become a teenager because then you just sound like a bitch.
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