Jenna Ortegais taking her role in Netflix’s upcoming horror series to another level!
On Monday, the streaming network released the first look at Ortega as Wednesday Addams in its upcoming,Tim Burton-helmed seriesWednesday.
TheScream 5actress makes a brief appearance in thetrailerwith long braided pigtails as she walks toward the camera while giving an eerie stare before snapping her fingers and disappearing into the dark.
“A twisted new series from the mind of Tim Burton,” reads the description in the teaser.
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“Tim has had a history of telling empowering stories about social outsiders likeEdward Scissorhands, Lydia Deitz and Batman,” said Teddy Biaselli, Netflix’s head of original series, previously in astatement. “And now, he brings his unique vision to Wednesday and her spooky classmates at Nevermore Academy.”
Last year,Netflix first confirmedOrtega, 19, would star as the show’s titular character before later tappingCatherine Zeta-JonesandLuis Guzmanto guest star as Wednesday’s parents, Morticia and Gomez Addams.
The streaming giant also had since rounded out its main cast with 10 additional actors including Hunter Doohan (Your Honor, Truth Be Told), Georgie Farmer (Treadstone, The Evermoor Chronicles), Moosa Mostafa (Nativity Rocks!, The Last Bus), Emma Myers (Girl in the Basement, Taste of Christmas), Naomi J. Ogawa (Skylin3s), Joy Sunday (Dear White People, The Beta Test), Percy Hynes White (The Gifted, Pretty Hard Cases), Thora Birch (Ghost World, The Walking Dead), Riki Lindhome (Knives Out, Another Period) and Jamie McShane (Mank, Bloodline).
Addams' characters were first introduced in a New Yorker comic strip in the late 1930s, consisting of parents Gomez and Morticia Addams, children Wednesday and Pugsley, Uncle Fester, Grandmama, butler Lurch and Cousin Itt.
Several onscreen adaptations have been created since, including an ABC sitcom running from 1964 to 1966, two animated series in 1973 and 1992, another live-action show titledThe New Addams Familyin 1998,The Addams Familymovie in 1991 and its 1993 sequelAddams Family Values, andtwo animated filmsin 2019 and 2021.
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With this new Netflix series, which is expected to drop later this year, Ortega joins the list of actresses who’ve played the iconic character over the years, includingLisa Loring,Christina Ricci, andChloë Grace Moretz.
source: people.com
