00:00Oftentimes I'll just, we'll do one long take and we'll do, you know, three runs of the scene and
00:05then I'll just give him something a little different every time and, you know, sometimes
00:08I'll do levels where it's nothing to something big or maybe it's three completely different
00:13reactions and then, you know, I trust him in the edit. The Netflix series Wednesday is back for an
00:19even spookier second season. The stars and creators spoke to The Hollywood Reporter all
00:24about the new installment. Season two spends more time with the whole Adams family unit,
00:28including Morticia, Gomez and Pugsley. Jenna Ortega, who stars as Wednesday Adams, opened up about what
00:35it was like doing more scenes with Catherine Zeta-Jones, who plays Wednesday's mother Morticia,
00:40including one involving an intense sword fight. I mean, that sword fight scene is one of my favorite
00:44things to come out of the show in its entirety. Obviously, Catherine is incredibly gifted and
00:49skilled and has such a rich history in film and television and, you know, I'm so grateful for my
00:56time with her on season one. So to be able to elaborate that on a second season and to add
01:00complexity to both of our characters and to bring some sort of tether into this, you know,
01:06quite ethereal, magical show, it's so great to be able to also represent what feels, you know,
01:13like the very accurate day-to-day life, both modern and, you know, over decades and centuries.
01:19You know, just the relationship between mothers and daughters and that fight for independence.
01:22And I don't know, I just, I relate to the storyline a lot and have definitely felt like
01:28Wednesday, you know, as she does in this season. So it was great to be able to put that on screen.
01:33Zeta-Jones also shared what it was like getting to bring more of Morticia to the screen.
01:38It was a dream. You have no, I was chomping at the bit on season one. I wanted, I would do anything.
01:44I pleaded with them, please put something in. But it was, it was a wonderful kind of tease for us
01:50to come back on season two. And they gave me this wonderful character arc when, where I can,
01:56you see the strange relationship with Wednesday and then an even more strained emotional twist with,
02:04you know, the great, great Joanna Lumley's interpretation of Hester Frump.
02:09So there's this fantastic triangle of these very strong-willed women and how they,
02:15they, they work about maybe Grandmama is pitting with Wednesday against me. You know,
02:20it's, it's a very interesting dynamic.
02:23Morticia always has that deep love for her daughter,
02:27even though it's a little, it's contested during this season a lot.
02:31Speaking of members of the Addams family, Fred Armisen also returns as Uncle Fester.
02:36He opened up about working with Ortega on the show.
02:39It's so much fun working with her, but I, I, it was evident even in season one,
02:44before the show was big, she was really into it and really in control of like how the lines were
02:52said and written. It was really, she was like already producing it and she cares about each scene.
02:59She cares about each moment and it actually snaps everyone else into place of wanting to do a great
03:05job. So no part of it seems like she's just doing a job. It's, she's emotionally involved with
03:13making this show.
03:14Yeah. Fully invested.
03:16Steve Buscemi joins the cast this season as Barry Dort, the new head of Nevermore Academy.
03:21He shared how his involvement in the series came about.
03:23It was offered to me and I read the script, but even before I read the script, I knew that I wanted to do it
03:30because it's Tim Burton, it's the Addams family, the first season, which I loved. And I, and, and this
03:38ensemble cast, it was just a no brainer to, to, to want to be a part of it.
03:44Other names joining the cast this season include Christopher Lloyd and Lady Gaga.
03:48Series creators and showrunners, Alfred Goff and Miles Miller opened up about how they went about
03:53casting the actor who played Uncle Fester in the 1990s Addams Family films and the iconic pop star.
03:59It's basically sort of, you know, grew out of the, the dance, you know, the viral dance where they put
04:04Bloody Mary on it and then she did the dance and then, you know, she was interested, we were interested
04:11and, but you know, she's Lady Gaga, she's very busy. So, you know, we were able to, to work out
04:17a character for her to play and time for her to come and do it. And she was, you know, we all know
04:22she's an amazing actress. So we, we were just, you know, thrilled that she could, that she could come
04:27and, come and play in the sandbox. Well, the best one actually was Christopher Lloyd. He DM'd me on
04:32my Instagram and said, he loved season, initially he loved season one and wanted to be in season two.
04:39So it was a pretty easy call to say, Hey, we'd love to have you. And obviously everyone loves the idea
04:45working with Tim. So I think that's, that's the color we have to play as well. So, you know,
04:49it's a show where we get all our first choices. Yeah. Everyone, everyone we asked to play a role
04:53said, yes. Part one of Wednesday season two hits streaming on Wednesday, August 6th.
04:58For the Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.
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