Jenna Ortega has spoken out about her hopes for the second season of her smash Netflix comedy, Wednesday.
The 20-year-old actress plays the title character and received worldwide acclaim for her depiction of the Addams Family favourite in the eight-part series, which premiered last November.
In subsequent interviews, she explained how she made tiny adjustments to the screenplay on multiple times to ensure that her character was real, and how she felt ‘protective’ of Wednesday.
During an interview on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show, she expressed her joy that another series had been ordered, hinting her hopes that the kid will be able to escape the love entanglements in future episodes.
‘I’m very excited,’ she told the host. ‘We just started getting a writers’ room together and talking about it. Everyone is being really cool.
‘I think we want to up the horror aspects a little bit and get Wednesday out of the romantic situation and just let her be her own individual and fight her own crime.’
Jenna, who reprised her role as Tara Carpenter in Scream 6 with Christina Ricci, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzman, and Fred Armisen, was lauded for her performance as the haughty adolescent.
She recently commented on her experience behind the scenes, revealing that she refused to utter a certain line of speech about Wednesday’s Rave’N dance outfit.
She reminisced on past situations where she ‘put her foot down’ about decisions made concerning the adolescent on the Armchair Expert programme.
‘I don’t think I’ve ever had to put my foot down on a set in a way that I had to on Wednesday, because it’s so easy to fall into that category, especially with this type of show,’ she told Dax Shepard.
‘Everything that she does, everything that I had to play, did not make sense for her character at all.
‘Her being in a love triangle made no sense. There was a line about a dress that she has to wear for a school dance, and she said: “Oh my god I love it. I can’t believe I said that – I literally hate myself.” And I had to go: “No.”
‘I grew very, very protective of her, but you can’t lead a story and have no emotional arc, because then it’s boring and nobody likes you.’
Wednesday is available to stream on Netflix now.