On Wednesdays we put on black and watch the newest behind the scenes featurette for Tim Burton’s Netflix collection centering on Wednesday Addams. In it, the grasp of cinematic oddities like Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands discusses Wednesday star Jenna Ortega’s tackle the basic Charles Addams character.

“Wednesday is the classic outsider, obviously. She sees things very black and white, mainly black,” Burton says within the video, which you’ll watch under. “In the past incarnations it’s been very cartoony. So in this longer form we just tried to give it a reality, which I loved.”

Ortega, who’s at the moment on the rise as a scream queen in movies like Ti West’s X and the latest Scream, knew she wished to face aside from earlier variations. “It was really important to me that I did something different, even though she’s been done so flawlessly in the past,” she shares. (Christina Ricci—the actor most individuals affiliate with the half—additionally has a task in Wednesday as “an exciting new character.”)

“She’s a bit more socially awkward. There’s a confidence there but it’s more concealed,” Ortega continues. “Wednesday is technically a Latina character and that’s never been represented. So for me, any time that I have an opportunity to represent my community, I want that to be seen. Wednesday’s somebody that I always was compared to my entire life.” (A win for underepresented goth girls and their households!) Luis Guzmán additionally stars as Gomez Addams with Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams. Puglsey is performed by newcomer Isaac Ordonez.

Combining what makes Wednesday probably the most sardonic, grimly loyal member of the Addams household with some Gen Z realness is absolutely thrilling and Ortega has what it takes, as Burton explains. “She’s like a silent movie actress in the sense where she’s able to convey things without words. And to see that inner life and the subtleties was exciting. I can’t imagine any other Wednesday.”

Wednesday arrives this fall on Netflix.

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