It seems like the whole world is going Netflix crazy. Wednesday With Jenna Ortega. From near-universal praise for the show itself to viral Wednesday Dance memes, it’s one of the most popular media of all kinds right now. And it’s very special for fans of the Addams family because the show also features former Wednesday Christina Ricci.
There are many different ways to imagine Jenna Ortega reacting to the announcement of Christina Ricci’s presence. Wednesday with her, and it turns out he had more than one of those reactions. Talk with buzz Ortega admits his first reaction to the news was that he thought sharing the spotlight with Ricci would be great, but then realized how potentially complicated it would be, for fairly obvious reasons. Ortega said…
When I found out he was on the show, I was like, ‘Oh, great. And then I was like ‘Oh shit’. Because it’s stressful. Especially since it’s the newest or most loved iteration of All Wednesdays.
While the Addams Family has been around since cartoonist Charles Addams created the comic in 1938, their first acquaintance with the characters for most modern audiences came in the two films starring Christina Ricci as Wednesday, originally released in the early 1930s. 90’s. movies that made Christina Ricci a star, so it’s no surprise that Jenna Ortega could potentially be intimidated by them.
As different as Wednesday’s Netflix version is, the character has aged many years, people were likely to compare Ortega’s Wednesday performance to Ricci’s regardless of anything else. The fact that Ricci was right there on the show only guaranteed that the comparisons would come.
Ortega has previously said that there’s little to no discussion between her and Christina Ricci regarding their portrayals, especially since the characters are so different after all. from Netflix Wednesday sees the character as a high school teenager rather than a boy, and the show is a mystery. It has more in common with something like this veronica mars than in the 90s Addams family movie.
Considering the popular Wednesday was, remained the top series on Netflix for several weeks until the recent debut of harry and meghan, It’s a bit shocking that there hasn’t been any confirmation yet that the next few seasons are on the way. While Netflix’s process for deciding which shows return and which don’t has always been opaque, it’s rare to see a show this successful. It looks like future generations Jenna Ortega could become Wednesday’s most loved iteration.
Source: Cinemablend
