“I Didn’t Need To Be Too A lot Like Her” – Deadline

Jenna Ortega performs the titular character Wednesday within the Netflix collection primarily based on the Charles Addams cartoons. Ortega follows within the footsteps of Christina Ricci who portrayed the character in 1991’s The Addams Household and the 1993 sequel Addams Household Values.

Ricci returned to the Netflix reboot with the character of Marylin Thornhill and though she shared scenes with Ortega, the brand new Wednesday stated she didn’t ask for any recommendation.

“No, I believe when she was on set, neither one among us stated Wednesday needs to one another,” Ortega stated in a one-on-one interview with costar Emma Myers for MTV Information. “I don’t assume she wished to get in the way in which of my efficiency and really feel like she was overbearing. After which I felt like I didn’t wish to pull up one thing that she did 30 years in the past, for one, the sake of my very own profit, however two, I didn’t wish to rip her off. And I didn’t wish to be an excessive amount of like her.”

Ortega stated that Wednesday is totally completely different from the 90’s motion pictures that Barry Sonnenfeld directed.

“Our present has superpowers and outcasts and evil ghost pilgrims,” she added. “So that they’re two very completely different folks our Wednesdays, I believe. Our characters within the present are polar opposites. They’ve a candy little relationship.”

In the identical interview, Ortega instructed Myers that she “felt numerous strain to do it proper” as a result of Wednesday is “such a beloved character.”

“I’ve by no means performed somebody who’s been performed earlier than. So I believe that that was a extremely attention-grabbing factor for me,” she stated. “I’ve numerous respect for the character, we’ve by no means spent as a lot time with Wednesday on digicam earlier than, I believe there’s gonna be some extra depth or some extra emotional vary that we haven’t actually seen from her earlier than.”

Watch the entire interview between Ortega and Myers within the video beneath however BEWARE OF SPOILERS.