category Wednesday From Netflix with Jenna Ortega 2022 was a big success. Since then, the actress has become a huge star who continues to shoot. Despite the teaser announcing the sequel, the second season of Wednesday Still waiting and fans stamping their feet.
After completing the shooting of Scream VI, Beetlejuice 2, Finestkind and Miller’s GirlJenna Ortega has finally begun production on Season 2 Wednesday. When she attended the 2024 Emmy Awards ceremony, she had A chance to break the news and voice your opinions on the long-awaited sequel to the Netflix hit.
Unprecedented success for Jenna Ortega
The first season of the series Wednesday 2022 is a big hit on Netflix. Loosely inspired by the comic strips of The Addams Family By Charles Adams, the series is helmed by its star, Jenna Ortega (who we previously discovered. Scream V and produces other Netflix series you), and the presence behind the camera of great director Tim Burton (at least for the first four episodes). From the first day of its online publication, Wednesday An event immediately occurs. Wednesday’s quirky choreography during her promotion has been repeated over and over by fans on TikTok, And Jenna Ortega suddenly becomes one of the most sought-after actresses in Hollywood.
But this success is also a big surprise for streaming platform Netflix, Which apparently he didn’t believe. After extensive filming and post-production, success was not expected. Quite a revealing detail, we’ll have to wait several months before we see official derivative products worthy of the name in stores and online. If A micro teaser is shot immediately to announce the arrival of Season 2Rumor has it that behind the scenes Netflix first launched an opinion survey among viewers to better understand why they liked the series.
For her part, Jenna Ortega, who has become omnipotent and one of Tim Burton’s new muses, Wants to take her time and insists that all was not rosy for her during this shoot. As the new season is gearing up; At this time, Ortega wants his say on the new scenario, And she won’t be filming until she and Tim Burton complete the much-anticipated shoot. Beetle juice2.
Wednesday, what will change with this new season
To make sure to keep their new golden swan and their new big star, Netflix has promoted Jenna Ortega to executive producer for the second season Wednesday. Appearing at the Emmy Awards yesterday (January 15, 2024), she quickly spoke about the series. Wednesday And season 2 is coming. She reminded The Hollywood Reporter reporters that for her, the important thing is to keep intact the very essence of the character that was sometimes mishandled during the first season.
Everything she does, everything I had to play, sometimes doesn’t make sense for her character (…) The fact that she was in a love triangle doesn’t make sense. There was a line about this dress that she had to wear to the school dance and she said, ‘Oh my God, I love it. Oh, I can’t believe I said that. I literally hate myself.’ And I had to say, ‘No, that’s out of the question, isn’t it Wednesday.
Jenna Ortega took the opportunity to point out that it was largely thanks to Tim Burton that she was able to make the character her own. As she wanted and Wednesday created this character that viewers loved:
“I was lucky enough to work with someone like Tim Burton, who took me to his circus caravan one day and told me he’d let me speak into his bullhorn (…) So, every day, he, the screenwriters and I, We met in the morning and recreated as many lines as possible. Wednesday“
Now that she is the producer of the series and has established her position as a strong personality in Hollywood, Jenna Ortega was really able to take charge. So she also took the opportunity to discuss the new ambitions driving the upcoming season of “Wednesday” on Netflix:
“Everything is bigger, there is a lot more action and the staging is more ambitious (…) each episode gives the impression of watching a new film.”
If the visual aspirations are thus multiplied, on the other hand, The tone will be more intense in the horror vein Signed by Tim Burton was introduced during the first four episodes:
“We’re definitely moving a little more toward horror.”
and this time, Jenna Ortega could allow Wednesday Addams to once again be the cool and meticulous monolith of the original work.As she herself now says of Wednesday:
“She never really changes.”
By Yori Gon
A cinema eater, a serivore, an enthusiast of all things cinema and a creator of pop culture. I treat my unhealthy and compulsive curiosity by writing articles for Hitek.
