November 23, 2022 was released Wednesday, the series derived from the universe of the Addams Family partly directed by the master of gothic cinema, the American Tim Burton. For its sets, its staging, its plot and its impeccable cast, critics quickly cry out for genius. As a reminder, the macabre teen-series exploded the counters of the platform, even going so far as to impose itself in front of Stranger Things, the series of the Duffer brothers. This worldwide successful series indeed had solid arguments to impose itself in the living room of the televiewers this winter, one in particular. The performance of Jenna Ortega, 20, diabolically bursts the screen in the skin of the eldest of the Addams Family. While waiting for the continuation of the adventures of Wednesday and his friends within the Academy Nevermore, here is what you should know about the now mythical character of Wednesday.
Wednesday Addams biography
The character of Wednesday was born from the pen of American cartoonist Charles Addams, who died in 1988. She is the eldest daughter of the Addams, an eccentric, wealthy family with a dark sense of humor, made up of Morticia Addams, the mother , Gomez Addams, the patriarch of Castilian origin, and Pugsley, who is none other than Wednesday’s brother. This satirical version of the ideal American family revels in the macabre, but is no less sympathetic: besides, the Addams don’t really seem to be aware of their strangeness. Wednesday, meanwhile, named after the day of the week she was born, takes pleasure in scaring anyone who gets a little too close to her family.
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In the Netflix series, she is portrayed as a bright and precocious young girl, obsessed with death and torture, as evidenced by the opening scene where Wednesday throws piranhas into a swimming pool while students are swimming. Her skin is pale, her long braids dark, and she rarely shows her emotions. But above all: Mercredi has visions of the past or what she believes to be the future, a power created specifically for the series. When she joins the Nervermore Academy, where sirens, gorgons, werewolves and other fairytale monsters coexist, this gift of clairvoyance is used to investigate a series of murders that terrorize both the inhabitants of Jericho and the students of Nevermore. Her natural coldness doesn’t stop her from befriending Enid Sinclair (Emma Myers), the blonde girl with colorful highlights, or starting to be torn between Xavier Thorpe (Percy Hynes White) and Tyler Galpin. (Hunter Doohan).
Who interprets Wednesday?
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Wednesday is brilliantly embodied by young actress Jenna Ortega, who was one of the nominees in the best actress category in a musical or comedy series at the 80th Golden Globes ceremony on January 11. The actress literally blew Netflix subscribers away, especially during a dance scene to the song Goo Goo Muck of the band The Cramps. Her choreography, which she revealed to have improvised herself, quickly became viral on social networks, and in particular on TikTok, even going so far as to inspire certain personalities like Lady Gaga. This revelation of the small screen comes from a Mexican-Puerto Rican family of six children. At the age of 9, she began to chain the auditions: “Four to five times a week, my mother drove me to Los Angeles, seven hours round trip, to go to castings”confided the actress on comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s set, on ABC. After playing in Saving Flora (2018) and Yes Day (2021) but also in You on Netflix, Jenna Ortega is making a name for herself in horror cinema. She notably plays in The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020), plays in Scream in 2022 and will reprise his role in the sixth installment of the famous franchise which will be released in March 2023 at the cinema!
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Why do we love Wednesday?
Wednesday may have a rather disturbing penchant for all things morbid, but she is nonetheless endearing. Above all, she softens more and more as the episodes progress, proof that her character is destined to evolve even more in season 2. If the bet was daring for Jenna Ortega, who then passed behind Christina Ricci – l Unforgettable interpreter of Wednesday in the 90s -, the young woman has managed to offer a modernized version of the cult character, a sort of Gothic Columbo of modern times who has become a master in the martial arts. Finally, Wednesday delights us above all with her sarcasm, making her the queen of punchlines, that a single frown is enough to freak us out. And above all, to see thus sublimated on the screen a female character who is neither a follower of girl power, nor a beauty queen, nor covered with sequins, and who does not care about what will be said we, it changes and it feels good.
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Article written in collaboration with 6Médias
