Wednesday was a smash hit for Netflix, exponentially elevating the profile of star Jenna Ortega—significantly within the horror realm, as she went on to outlive two Scream movies and be solid in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. And whereas that latter Tim Burton venture will hit eyeballs first (the Ghost With the Most arrives in theaters September 6), there are nonetheless loads of goth-loving followers who’re dying for hints about Wednesday‘s eagerly awaited return.
In a brand new Vanity Fair profile about her rise to fame, Ortega shares some regrets about the way she expressed her dissatisfaction with the writing in Wednesday season one (“I most likely may have used my phrases higher in describing all of that … I feel it was arduous as a result of I felt like had I represented the state of affairs higher, it most likely would’ve been obtained higher,” she advised the journal). However being assertive truly paid off; Ortega was elevated to producer for Wednesday season two.
Whereas she didn’t reveal particular plot particulars, she advised Vainness Honest there will probably be “new villains, new supernatural talents, and a good darker tone.” The tone takes inspiration from the 1964 Roger Corman-directed, Vincent Worth-starring movie model of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Pink Dying, whereas nonetheless maintaining its extensive fanbase in thoughts. “I feel the texture that we’re going for is a bit of bit extra horror-inspired … To not say that all of a sudden we’re the goriest present of all time. I imply, there’s six-year-olds watching.”
She hinted that “We’re doing this factor now the place Wednesday simply sort of seems. She is a bit of little bit of a leap scare herself.”
The story additionally notes that Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Gomez (Luis Guzmán), dad and mom of teenager Wednesday, will get extra screentime in season two—and divulges that Ortega is supremely jazzed that Steve Buscemi is now a part of the solid.
Head to Vanity Fair to learn the complete profile, which incorporates some Beetlejuice Beetlejuice tidbits in addition to a rundown of her upcoming tasks, together with Taika Waititi’s sci-fi Kazuo Ishiguro adaptation Klara and the Sun.
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