Christina Ricci to play some mysterious new character on Netflix’s Wednesday Addams show
She is supposedly not playing an older Wednesday, but she is someone important
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In what we’re really hoping isn’t going to be some kind of multiverse nonsense, Deadline says that Christina Ricci has joined the cast of Tim Burton’s Netflix show Wednesday—which is some kind of spin-off/reboot/reimagining of The Addams Family. Ricci played Wednesday in the Barry Sonenfeld Addams Family movies in the ‘90s, making her into a much more relatable character than the spooky kid of the old comics and sitcom, but Deadline’s story is insistent that Ricci is not playing “an older version of Wednesday.”
Instead, she is supposedly a “new character” and one that will play a “major part” in the series, with Ricci apparently having spent the last few months secretly filming for the show in Romania. The show is some kind of coming-of-age comedy/mystery show, so we would guess that Ricci is going to be a bad guy, but Deadline also suggests that it’s a “surprise.” Her being the bad guy seems obvious and not surprising, so maybe that’s not it.
Either way, Wednesday herself is being played by Jenna Ortega, with Catherine Zeta-Jones playing Morticia, Luis Guzmán playing Gomez, and Isaac Ordonez playing Pugsley. Gwendoline Christie will also show up as the principal of the magic school that Wednesday attends in the series, with her being a former classmate and nemesis of Morticia. (That seems like the sort of bad guy role we’re envisioning for Ricci, which makes her mysterious character even more mysterious.)
Of course, if this is an Into The Wednesdayverse situation and Chloë Grace Moretz shows up as the cartoon Wednesday from those recent movies, we would like credit for calling it… As much as we think that’s a bad idea. We’ll know at some point relatively soon, as Netflix’s Wednesday—which is directed by Burton and written by Smallville’s Al Gough and Miles Millar—is reportedly wrapping up production at the end of the month.
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Barry Sonenfeld —> Barry Sonnenfeldcalling it… As much —> calling it… as much
More of a nitpick than an error, but try to rephrase the first sentence without saying “some kind of” twice.
Trust me, I’m aware. But including things like that would be way too much work to do for free
All she has to do is play her character from Yellowjackets and she’ll be spookier than anyone else on the show
Came here to suggest this. If she shows up in scrubs with blonde curls I’d just assume it was some “in-universe” action.
“Hello Wednesday, you crazy fucking bitch.”
TIL that Christina Ricci is 42.
I’m assuming she’s replacing Thora Birch, who left the production for personal reasons.
Yep, the Gizmodo article below confirms that is the case.https://gizmodo.com/christina-ricci-is-actually-returning-for-tim-burtons-w-1848682596
Magic school? Someone needs a slapping for that.
Everything about this sounds stupid, the school thing is the least of it.
She’s going to play the long lost older sister, Tuesday HAHAHAHAAAAAAAA
Why would they bring Ricci back and not have her play Wednesday?!!?? JESUS F*CKING CHRIST. Dumbest decision ever.
Also loved her as Lizzie Borden in Lizzie Borden Chronicles, a gloriously crazy one-season weirdo show which theorized that Lizzie committed her axe murders in the nude to avoid blood splatter evidence & perhaps also for the element of surprise.