Following a nearly three-year hiatus, Netflix's uber-popular Addams Family spinoff, 'Wednesday,' is back for a highly-anticipated second season that will see Jenna Ortega's titular goth girl antiheroine return to Nevermore Academy for another year of outcast adventures, family drama, and supernatural mysteries.
00:00I think any time I see young girls in costume or, you know, kind of change their appearance and, you know, to suit Wednesday or something that's very sweet and sentimental, you know, for me, I think it's, as a young person, it was hard for me to connect with people on screen who maybe look like me or didn't look like me and to be able to give that to young people and help them kind of find their own identity and I think everybody should go through a gothic phase or a punk phase or, you know, whatever it may be.
00:30So, it's nice to be able to give that experience to young girls or anyone.
00:34As an actor, for me, when I put on those costumes, it lessens the load of my characterization because you become.
00:43Yeah.
00:44You are. You don't have to put it on to try and generate a character. You put it on and my mannerisms completely become with Tisha Adams, you know? I love it.
00:56Yeah, like, when she shows up and I see her in those full-on costumes, when I see her, like, for the first time walking on set, I'm like, that's why I work real hard so my woman could look good.
01:11Yeah.
01:12This is the first time you've ever willingly returned to a school.
01:21How does it feel?
01:23Like returning to the scene of the crime.
01:25I already know where the bodies are buried.
01:26I didn't have a strong sense of self. A lot of my life was my work and my school and sleep and when I could and, I don't know, I felt like I, I definitely felt external pressure to be a certain way and fit into a certain box and not exploring that more as a young person or not really, you know, I feel like it's only been in recent years that I've woken up.
01:48So maybe I would, I would have, you know, shaken her a bit sooner.
01:52I was pretty much the complete opposite of Bianca. Like, I didn't have the, you know, the strong hold over the school population that, that she does.
02:00But truthfully, I'm really grateful for the little that I knew then because I was working off of faith and it allowed me to build such a reservoir of self-confidence and love, you know, to arrive at this moment.
02:11So I'm happy with what little Joy knew.
02:14Yeah, I didn't have a lot of confidence growing up. And so I think I've sort of learned to find that recently, which has been a sort of lovely experience for me.
02:25Yeah, I would tell her, be more confident in yourself.
02:31Wednesday Adams, it is an honor to meet the savior of Nevermore.
02:35Do you know that Fred and I went to the same high school? How would you know that?
02:39Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:40But 10 years apart.
02:41Yeah, we're from the same place.
02:42Yeah. But I think I, you know, I tried so hard to fit in and I did a lot of sports and I, and I wanted to, you know, and then Fred the other day sent me pictures of what he looked like in high school.
02:55And I was like, wow, I wish I went to high school when he did because he looked so cool.
02:59I had a mohawk and stuff. I was punk rock all the way.
03:02Yeah.
03:03So I tried not to fit in.
03:04One day Adams is here. It's Adams with two Ds. Like padded room.
03:19What a pleasure and what an honor, you know, the show. We had no expectation or no understanding of, you know, how many people would reach if any. So then, you know, to be able to bring on such talented, wonderful people to our second season and just help us expand the show.
03:36So it was just something I'm very, very grateful for.
