Jenna Ortega says the present’s season of the present might be darker and extra true to horror.
The Addams Family is one in every of horror’s greatest clans, and the franchise’s newest entry will quickly dive even additional again into its roots. At Monday’s seventy fifth Annual Emmy Awards, Wednesday star Jenna Ortega mentioned the present’s second season will lean extra into horror than the present’s preliminary set of episodes.
“We’re definitely leaning into a little bit more horror,” Ortega advised E! on the purple carpet of the awards gala. “It’s really, really exciting because, all throughout the show, while Wednesday does need a little bit of an arc, she never really changes and that’s the wonderful thing about her.
Ortega then went on to tease the scope of the sophomore outing, saying each episode had a grand scope. “There’s actually, actually good one-liners and I feel all the things’s larger. It’s much more action-packed. Each episode will in all probability really feel a bit of bit extra like a film, which is sweet,” the actor continued.
This time around, the Scream alumnus has gotten more involved with the series behind-the-scenes, given inputs on the show’s writing and direction. Wednesday’s second season is expected to start production in Ireland in a few months.
“We had already been throwing out so many concepts, and I’m any person who’s very hands-on. I wish to know what is going on on,” Ortega said last year. “And with a personality like Wednesday, who’s so beloved and such a legend, I simply actually did not wish to get her incorrect. So I attempt to have as many conversations as potential. On set, with the writers and Tim [Burton], all of us would get collectively and resolve, ‘Okay, what works and what would not?’ It was naturally already very collaborative.”
She continued, “So in preparation for a second season, we wished to get forward of the curve and ensure that we might begin the conversations earlier … And I’m simply so curious. I wish to see the outfits, new characters which are coming in, scripts, and so they had been gracious sufficient to let me put the producer hat on.”
The first season of Wednesday is now streaming on Netflix. The second season has but to set a launch date.
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