Jenna Ortega Says ‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Is ‘Ditching Any Romantic Love Interest’ and ‘Leaning Into Horror’ More

variety.com:

Selome Hailu Jenna Ortega may already play the title role in “Wednesday,” but in Season 2, she’ll be taking even more ownership of the project.

The 20-year-old star has been elevated to a producing role on the smash hit Netflix series, and during a conversation with Elle Fanning for Variety‘s Actors on Actors, she revealed some of her biggest priorities for the next installation. “We’ve decided we want to lean into the horror aspect of the show a little bit more,” Ortega told Fanning. “Because it is so lighthearted, and a show like this with vampires and werewolves and superpowers, you don’t want to take yourself too seriously.” “We’re ditching any romantic love interest for Wednesday, which is really great,” she added, referring to the Season 1 storyline that saw Wednesday in a love triangle between Tyler Galpin (Hunter Doohan) and Xavier Thorpe (Percy Hynes White).

In the past, Ortega has commented that the plot “made no sense” for her character. Though Ortega is a first-time TV producer, she says that the move was a “natural progression” from the workplace environment on Season 1. “We had already been throwing out so many ideas, and I’m somebody who’s very hands on.

I want to know what’s going on,” she said. “And with a character like Wednesday, who is so beloved and such a legend, I just really didn’t want to get her wrong.