Jenna Ortega on Wednesday’s Close Call with a Gargoyle

‘Wednesday’ star Jenna Ortega explains her character’s and Bianca Barclay’s connection to Xavier Thorpe.

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00:00So, your first week at school is pretty tough, and someone tries to kill you right from the get-go.

00:04Someone tries to kill me?

00:05Yeah, the statue.

00:06Oh, yeah, the gargoyle gets shoved off the roof, and I'm saved by another character named Xavier,

00:12who Wednesday actually knew in her childhood.

00:14So, it's kind of nice to see a familiar face, or at least it would be to most people.

00:19Wednesday does not care at all.

00:21The person who saves Wednesday from the gargoyle also happens to be my boyfriend at Nevermore.

00:27Ex-boyfriend or boyfriend?

00:28Or ex-boyfriend at this point, yeah.

00:30Because he's coming pretty hard onto Wednesday, so that would be an extra problematic thing.

00:35Not that that doesn't happen again.

00:38Season 2.