"Jenna Ortega: Empowering the Scream of Gen Z's Cinematic Realm"

by - November 26, 2023

 It only took one audition and meeting with Ortega for Burton to decide that she was his leading lady. For Ortega, it wasn’t as obvious. “I hadn’t slept for over 24 hours,” she recalls.

 “I was literally dozing off before the call, so I remember thinking I had not done well.” Perhaps it was the lack of sleep that helped her conjure up Wednesday Addams’s classic deadpan look.


 While acting in any leading role comes with an obvious amount of pressure, playing a character that’s so nostalgic for many comes with added attention. “I was incredibly intimidated,” she says. “Nostalgia is immensely powerful, and it’s also part of the reason why superhero and horror films are so well respected and attended to today.”


 She describes Christina Ricci’s work in the beloved The Addams Family franchise 30 years ago as “flawless” but was excited to take on the character in her own way.


Coming to Netflix on November 23, Wednesday intensifies the supernatural elements that were always a part of the Addams family story and fine-tunes them for a new, younger audience. “You have to consider that this is a slightly different world, a slightly different reality,”


 Ortega explains with focus. The show is unlike anything she has seen before and offers the realm of fantasy, which is new to her acting palate. “The action will surprise the audience and the new characters [too] since they’re all unique in their own ways. 


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