The rising star hopes to empower young girls through her role in the new series. When Emma Myers got the call that she would be playing Enid Sinclair in Netflix’s new series Wednesday, she couldn’t believe it.

“I have never screamed so loud in my entire life!” the 20-year-old exclusively tells GRAZIA USA. “My manager likes to play this prank on me whenever she tells me I booked a role. She’ll call me and call me by the name of the character, but this time, she called and was like, ‘There’s something wrong with my phone. I’ll call you back.’ She called me back and said, ‘Do you think your phone will have this problem in Romania?’ It completely went over my head and then I realized what she was saying. I ran to my mom screaming and then we went out to dinner to celebrate.”

The rising star explains that the whole process took a long time, as she first auditioned in February 2021 but didn’t officially get cast until June of that year. “It was a long, nerve-wracking process, but it was totally worth it,” she admits.

Myers plays Enid, a werewolf. “She’s a bit of a late bloomer so she doesn’t have her full powers,” she explains. “It makes her feel like an outsider but then she meets Wednesday [played by Jenna Ortega] and they become roommates. She tries to hit it off with her, but we’ll see how that goes!”

The show, which premieres on Wednesday, November 23, on Netflix, is an upcoming coming of age supernatural horror TV series featuring Wednesday Addams of the Addams Family. “I watched the ’90s movies growing up because my aunt is a really big fan,” she says of her experience with the kooky brood. “But it wasn’t until after I was cast that I went and researched and found out it was originally a comic. Then I went back and watched parts the original TV show.”