. jennaortega, much like Wednesday herself, just wants to make audiences squirm a little.
. But the Coachella Valley native decided to get into acting at age six, when she saw the Denzel Washington thrillerWhen director Tim Burton reached out to Ortega about joiningshe was a little hesitant. She’d been moving away from TV—one of her first big roles was playing the younger version of the titular Jane on—but the opportunity to play someone like Wednesday and work with Burton ultimately drew her back to the small screen.
She took the work of playing Wednesday very seriously, just as Wednesday would. Ortega watched the two, plays a teacher in the reboot. She read Addams’s comics and watched the ’60s TV series. She learned to play the cello and took German lessons. With Burton, she perfected her captivatingly unemotive face. “One time, I did a take where I didn't blink at all,” she recalls. “He loved it so much that he gave me the note to not blink again. If I did blink, we’d restart the take.
When it came time for a dance sequence in which Wednesday lets her freak flag fly at a school function to The Cramps’s “Goo Goo Muck,” Ortega took it upon herself to choreograph, despite not having a technical dance background. She took inspiration from ’80s Goth club kids, Lene Lovich music videos, and Bob Fosse. The actress also was sure to throw in an homage to the extremelyof Wednesday from the TV series getting down.
Ortega infused as much of her own opinions into Wednesday as she possibly could. One of the reasons she took the job, she tells me, was to give girls like herself a Latina heroine on a major series; she ensured that experience was respected by the writing staff. “It’s weird, because the writers are not young Latina women. I just expressed concerns about telling this coming of age story about a young person of color and it not being told accurately,” she says.
Beyond Wednesday’s heritage, Ortega also stood up for Wednesday’s weirdness. “Nobody wants to see her in the middle of a love triangle,” she says. “They want to see her torturing people.” But I have to acknowledge that, being a Netflix teen show, there—featuring a moody Nevermore boy and a townie that works at the local coffee shop.
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