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By Ariana Romero
June 6, 2022
Did you just feel a sudden chill crawl up your spine? Don’t worry, that’s not a ghost haunting your halls — Tim Burton’s Wednesday Addams has simply arrived. In a spooky surprise during Geeked Week’s series showcase, budding scream queen Jenna Ortega makes her debut as Wednesday’s titular character in a video reveal. This is fans’ first taste of the upcoming YA supernatural mystery, which is directed by Burton and claims Smallville co-creators Al Gough and Miles Millar as showrunners. “Snap. Snap. Excited to share this first look at Wednesday,” Gough and Millar tell Tudum, previewing the introduction. “Her trademark braids may be the same and her acid-tongued zingers just as morbid, but our Wednesday Addams is all grown up.”
Jenna Ortega Debuts As Wednesday Addams In New Video
In the new video above, Ortega’s Wednesday dramatically waits to make her entrance. First we see her twisting her signature pigtail braids, black nail polish gleaming. Then she turns, backlit toward the camera, blunt bangs in perfect silhouette. Finally, a somber Wednesday strides into frame to the sound of pounding platforms and a crescendoing soundtrack. Wednesday doesn’t smile as a hello, she fixes the lapels on her gothic maxi dress and glowers. Don’t mess with Wednesday, or her sidekick Thing, who pops up on his mistress’ shoulder.
“Being 16 comes with its own set of challenges that even someone as brilliant as Wednesday finds challenging,” writers Gough and Millar tell Tudum. “Needless to say, Tim Burton and Wednesday Addams proved to be a match made in a deliciously dark corner of heaven. Can’t wait to show you more. As Wednesday would say, this is just the tip of the gravestone.”
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