Jenna Ortega’s ‘chilling’ childhood passion proves why she is the ‘actual’ Wednesday

Jenna Ortega’s character in Wednesday may not be fully dissimilar to her actual life persona.

The Hurry Up Tomorrow actor, 22, returns as Wednesday Addams for the second season of the hit Netflix present, premiering on the platform right now (6 August).

She’s certainly again at Nevermore Academy as a celebrated hero, however is now having to take care of the stress of fame after season one.

Wednesday can be being haunted by a prophetic imaginative and prescient of her werewolf pal Enid Sinclair (performed by Emma Myers), who died by suicide.

Utilizing her psychic skills, Wednesday turns into obsessive about stopping Enid’s destiny, inflicting unsettling visions and black tears shared together with her mom Morticia (Catherine Zeta‑Jones).

The brand new season centres round fellow pupil Agnes de Mille (Evie Templeton), who has invisibility powers and a bizarre – and harmful – fixation on Wednesday.



Now, in the actual world, Ortega is not any stranger to bizarre fixations and was into some fairly distinctive stuff when she was a child.

In a Wired interview from 2022, the movie star revealed how she used ‘used to carry out autopsies on little animals after I was youthful’.

Though she did not really kill the animals, lizards to be precise, she did like to examine them.

It is secure to say that followers weren’t anticipating such a confession, as one Redditor stated: “I really like her however why.”

“Offers Wednesday Addams vibes,” a second individual wrote, whereas another person penned: “I’m selecting to imagine she’s placing a faux persona to get individuals to look at Wednesday.”

Effectively, Ortega elaborated on her obsession in one other interview together with her mate Olivia Rodrigo.

“I feel we discover one another,” she told The Face.

“There’s some invisible string that’s related to serial killers, monsters, creatures, and myself.

“Regardless of the place I’m going. I really feel prefer it’s one thing that’s all the time been enticing to me since I used to be youthful, one thing I used to be all the time into.

“It’s what feels proper to me, and it tends to be the scripts I’m into.”

She admitted that she likes ‘issues which are a bit off-putting’ at first however turn out to be extra ‘fairly’ the nearer you look.

“Horror movies are what bought me out of being a scaredy cat. It’s usually the opposite approach round, however I fell in love with the craft, the eagerness that goes behind it,” Ortega added.

“I want individuals may see the opposite facet of horror movies.

“We’re laughing so laborious your entire time. We shot a scene with Ghostface within the final Scream, and there was someday [when] we couldn’t cease laughing as they had been doing their monologue.

“It’s not so severe. It’s actually laborious to scare me.”