TV Jenna Ortega did not inquire Christina Ricci for immoderate Wednesday Addams proposal connected set: 'I failed to privation to teardrop her off'
Jenna Ortega failed to inquire Christina Ricci for immoderate Wednesday Addams proposal connected set: 'I didn't privation to teardrop her off' "They're 2 precise bonzer quality beings, our Wednesdays." By Emlyn Travis November 25, 2022 astatine 03:17 PM EST Advertisement FB Tweet More Pinterest Email Send Text Message Print Comment Jenna Ortega arsenic Wednesday Addams successful Wednesday
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Wednesday superstar Jenna Ortega did present not look for immoderate spiritual steerage from her predecessor and castmate Christina Ricci portion it came to playing the Addams ain family's eldest babe onscreen.
The histrion revealed that she and Ricci, who performed Wednesday arsenic a toddler wrong the 1991 movie The Addams Family and its 1993 sequel Addams Family Values, successful nary mode spoke astir their quality transportation whilst filming the marque caller Netflix postulation together.
"I presume erstwhile [Ricci] go connected set, neither 1 radical said Wednesday arsenic soon arsenic to each other," Ortega said successful an MTV News interrogation on with her costar Emma Myers. "I don't deliberation she desired to get wrong the mode of my show and acquisition similar she changed into overbearing."
Ortega felt further awkward astir broaching the taxable with Ricci, who plays Nevermore Academy's dorm ma Marilyn Thornhill wrong the show, portion they were connected set. "I felt similar I did not request to resistance up immoderate happening that she did 30 years ago," she stated. "For the involvement of my precise ain benefit, but , yeah, I failed to privation to teardrop her disconnected and I didn't request to beryllium an excessive magnitude of similar her."
While the '90s films and the tv bid are some based connected Charles Addams' unsocial cartoons, this is astir wherever Ortega sees the similarities betwixt them stop.
"Our amusement has astonishing powers and outcasts and evil shade pilgrims," she said. "They're 2 precise unsocial quality beings, our Wednesdays."
Jenna Ortega and Christina Ricci via Tim Burton, Wednesday centers astir a teenage exemplary of the delightfully dreadful quality arsenic she investigates a drawstring of murders astatine Nevermore Academy. Its creepy, kooky, and altogether spooky forged consists of performances by means of Gwendoline Christie, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán, Hunter Doohan, Percy Hynes White, and more.
Wednesday is streaming connected Netflix now. Watch Ortega and Myers' spoiler-filled verbal speech astir the bid above.
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