Jenna Ortega's 'chilling' childhood hobby proves why she is the 'real' Wednesday
Jenna Ortega's character in Wednesday might not be completely dissimilar to her real life persona.
The Hurry Up Tomorrow actor, 22, returns as Wednesday Addams for the second season of the hit Netflix show, premiering on the platform today (6 August).
She's indeed back at Nevermore Academy as a celebrated hero, but is now having to deal with the pressure of fame after season one.
Wednesday is also being haunted by a prophetic vision of her werewolf friend Enid Sinclair (played by Emma Myers), who died by suicide.
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Using her psychic abilities, Wednesday becomes obsessive about preventing Enid’s fate, causing unsettling visions and black tears shared with her mother Morticia (Catherine Zeta‑Jones).
The new season centres around fellow student Agnes de Mille (Evie Templeton), who has invisibility powers and a weird - and dangerous - fixation on Wednesday.
Now, in the real world, Ortega is no stranger to weird fixations and was into some pretty unique stuff when she was a kid.
In a Wired interview from 2022, the film star revealed how she used 'used to perform autopsies on little animals when I was younger'.
Although she didn't actually kill the animals, lizards to be exact, she did like to inspect them.
It's safe to say that fans weren't expecting such a confession, as one Redditor said: "I love her but why."
"Gives Wednesday Addams vibes," a second person wrote, while someone else penned: "I am choosing to believe she’s putting a fake persona to get people to watch Wednesday."
Well, Ortega elaborated on her obsession in another interview with her mate Olivia Rodrigo.
“I think we find each other,” she told The Face.
“There’s some invisible string that’s connected to serial killers, monsters, creatures, and myself.
“No matter where I go. I feel like it’s something that’s always been attractive to me since I was younger, something I was always into.
“It’s what feels right to me, and it tends to be the scripts I’m into.”
She admitted that she likes 'things that are a bit off-putting' at first but become more 'pretty' the closer you look.
“Horror films are what got me out of being a scaredy cat. It’s typically the other way around, but I fell in love with the craft, the passion that goes behind it,” Ortega added.
“I wish people could see the other side of horror films.
“We’re laughing so hard the entire time. We shot a scene with Ghostface in the last Scream, and there was one day [when] we could not stop laughing as they were doing their monologue.
“It’s not so serious. It’s really hard to scare me.”
Topics: Jenna Ortega, Netflix, TV, Celebrity
Anish Vij