New "WEDNESDAY" Featurette Proves Jenna Ortega Was The Perfect Choice For Wednesday Addams

Tim Burton is back at it with a new small screen adaptation of The Addams Family for Netflix entitled simply “Wednesday” and today a featurette released for the show focuses on its star, Jenna Ortega.

The new footage highlights the pitch perfect casting of Jenna Ortega, with Tim Burton expressing that he can’t imagine anyone else in the role.

Interviewed talent includes executive producer and director Tim Burton, showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and more!

“Wednesday” premieres on Netflix in Fall 2022.

Jenna Ortega stars in the new series as Wednesday Addams, with Luis Guzmán playing Gomez and Catherine Zeta-Jones playing Morticia in Tim Burton’s Netflix series.

“Wednesday” is described as “a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy.” It’s said to follow…

“Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships.”

Christina Ricci will also appear in the show, playing a brand new role.

Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (“Smallville”) are writing and showrunning. Burton is directing.

Wednesday Addams has most recently been played by Chloë Grace Moretz in 2019’s animated movie, and earlier in live-action by Lisa Loring on TV and Christina Ricci in the films.

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