Addams Family
It’s usually the people you least expect, isn’t it? With her shocking performance in Netflix’s Wednesday, Christina Ricci upped the ante from her earlier portrayal of Wednesday Addams as a little child.
The Addams Family and its sequel, Addams Family Values, from 1991 gave the actress her breakthrough role as the gloomy child. Later, Ricci gushed about the impact the encounter had on her.
In June 2018, she told the A.V. Club, “Well, those movies have certainly had the largest impact on my career and life.” “I worked on them and promoted them for a good portion of my boyhood, and I’ve talked about them for the rest of my life.”
The Yellowjackets actor continued, “So, both of the Addams Family movies are significant in my history, and Wednesday is someone I feel very inextricably connected to because I feel, like, who can say how much influence being that person at that age for the length of time that I was her, the amount of positive reinforcement from playing that character. Did I affect her as a character, or did she as a character influence my personality? It’s like the chicken-or-the-egg question.
Later, Netflix created its own version of the story, which focused on the famous figure as a teenager attending Nevermore Academy. Jenna Ortega was introduced in the series, which debuted in November 2022, as Wednesday. For her part, Ricci played Ms. Marilyn Thornhill in the first season.
Christina Ricci Role Wednesday
Ortega claims that the co-stars came to an understanding over how each one related to Wednesday. In a subsequent interview with Entertainment Tonight, she admitted, “I did not pick her brain.” “It was strange; it seemed like we had an unsaid understanding. Let’s never talk about her, was all we were thinking when we first locked eyes.
The Sleepy Hollow actress is one of her more well-known characters, and the Scream actor said it was “scary” to be in the same scene with her. He continued, “Because it’s like, she’s observing what it is, what you’re doing, and it’s one of her more popular characters, and… she’s created quite the legacy to live up to. And the show is strikingly similar to her perspective. It only serves to demonstrate the respect that exists there.
However, following the first season’s production, the Golden Globe winner described the experience as “very entertaining.” In an exclusive interview with Us Weekly in October 2022, Ricci said, “I was really pleased to work with Tim [Burton] again. Jennifer was a pleasure to work with and is fantastic in this role. It was therefore incredibly wonderful.
For a thorough analysis of Ricci’s persona in Wednesday on Netflix, continue reading.
