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Geek Tyrant
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Jenna Ortega Teases Season 2 of WEDNESDAY Is "Bigger, Bolder, Gorier" and "Sillier in the Best Way Possible" — GeekTyrant
Fans of the series Wednesday have been waiting nearly three years to see the return of the show that had a hugely successful first season. The show explores the high school life of Wednesday Addams at Nevermore Academy as she navigates friendships and relationships and unravels dark mysteries lurking within its walls. The wait is not long now, with season 2 headed our way this August, and star Jenna Ortega is teasing the 'bigger, bolder' theme of the returning show. In a recent interview with Harpers Bazaar, Ortega, who is now a producer on the series, said of joining the behind the scenes process, 'I sit in on meetings and listen and learn. I'm still finding my footing in that area.' She also tries to make sure other young cast members feel heard. She teased, 'Season 2 is bigger, bolder, gorier, and a bit darker. It's sillier in the best way possible.' She also commented on the show's move from Bucharest to Dublin, stating, 'Dublin was incredible. I loved everything about that experience, the cast, the crew. It was so sweet and so awesome. That island is so beautiful.' The official logline for Wednesday season 2 promises a "supernatural mystery" where "fresh foes and woes" await our titular hero in the halls of Nevermore Academy. "This season, Wednesday must navigate family, friends and old adversaries, propelling her into another year of delightfully dark and kooky mayhem," it continues. Part 1 of Season 2 of Wednesday is debuting on Netflix on August 6th, followed by Part 2 on September 3rd.
Perth Now
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Jenna Ortega insists wearing Wednesday schoolgirl costume is 'very patronising'
Jenna Ortega finds her 'Wednesday' costume "very patronising". The 22-year-old star plays iconic character Wednesday Addams in Netflix's 'Addams Family' spin-off series, and she has insisted it's not always easy trying to be "taken seriously" as a short actress. She told Harper's Bazaar magazine: "It's always been really annoying, because you just don't feel like you're being taken seriously. "You know, it's like how you're dressed in the schoolgirl costume... There's just something about it that's very patronising. "Also, when you're short, people are already physically looking down on you.' She insisted 'Wednesday' has placed her in a difficult spot in her career as she tries to be taken seriously as an actress. She added: 'I'm doing a show I'm going to be doing for years where I play a schoolgirl. But I'm also a young woman.' The 'Scream' star - who first rose to fame as a child star in comedy drama 'Jane The Virgin' over a decade ago - has gone onto appear in the likes of 'You', 'X', 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' and 'Death of a Unicorn'. She argued that boys have it easier when it comes to growing up in the public eye. She said: 'But girls, if they don't stay as this perfect image of how they were first introduced to you, then it's 'Ah, something's wrong. She's changed. She sold her soul.' "But you're watching these women at the most pivotal times in their lives; they're experimenting because that's what you do.' Jenna has reflected on how her "tastes" have changed as she's grown up, while she's also been given the freedom to grow after her time in Disney Channel show 'Stuck in the Middle' ended after four years in 2018. She pondered: 'I definitely feel like I have a bit more Gothic taste than I did when I was a teenager. 'I've always been into dark things or been fascinated by them, but I was a Disney kid, and the whole thing is being bubbly and kind and overly sweet.'
Miami Herald
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
‘Wednesday' Creators Share Intriguing New Details For Season 2
If there's one thing for certain about the infamous Addams Family, it's that they always find a way to veer towards the unexpected, offsetting any thoughts or notions audiences had planned for the notoriously macabre family. Nowhere can this characteristic be more readily seen than in Netflix's ultra-popular dark comedy series, Wednesday. Starring Jenna Ortega as the titular brooding protagonist, Wednesday earned significant acclaim upon its initial premiere in the autumn of 2022. As viewers wonder what misadventures the show has in store for the character, Wednesday's creators have offered tantalizing new details about the show's upcoming second season. Above all else, Wednesday's showrunners (Miles Millar and Alfred Gough) promised the series would have plenty of new surprises for Season 2, including a slew of new characters alongside more than a few familiar faces, as reported by Entertainment Weekly. "We certainly set out to really stretch ourselves and stretch what the show could do and see where our characters could go," said Millar. "The last thing you want is people to be disappointed having waited for so long. We really want to ensure that the show is loaded with surprises and comedy and action, and that they see the characters they love, but also introduce new ones." In particular, the two showrunners promised a new emphasis on some of Wednesday's most dysfunctional family members, such as her younger brother Pugsley and her enigmatic parents, Morticia and Gomez. "You get to explore the mother-daughter dynamic with Wednesday and Morticia [with Season 2]," Gough observed. "So it's really delving more into the Addams family and their backstory, but also their relationships. You can have a family that loves each other, but there's still issues and clashes." If that weren't exciting enough, Wednesday's creators have also introduced a long-standing fan-favorite in Season 2 with Joanna Lumley's lovably chaotic, Grandmama. "She's a whole different flavor of Addams that brings such delicious fun to the show and into the family," Millar said of Lumley's character. "We weren't sure how many episodes that character should be in, but seeing how well it played, I think Grandmama will definitely be coming back if we get a season 3." Copyright 2025 The Arena Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Guardian
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Unreal estate: the 12 greatest homes in video game history
This year's surprise hit Blue Prince is a proper video game wonder. It's an architectural puzzler in which you explore a transforming mansion left to you by an eccentric relative. The place is filled with secrets, and whenever you reach a door you get to pick the room on the other side from a handful of options. The whole game is a rumination on houses and how we live in them. Nostalgic and melancholic, it feels designed to make us look harder at what surrounds us. This Addams'-style Queen Anne with clapboard facades and dark windows is a classic haunted house, reportedly inspired by the Skywalker Ranch. The great twist of this early LucasArts adventure is that all kinds of spooky things are happening, but the fiends and monsters you meet are often surprisingly charming – the odd hamster-in-a-microwave incident aside. Maybe not a great place to live, but these guys would make memorable neighbours. Nestled amid the foreboding Arklay mountains outside Raccoon City, the Spencer mansion is what would have happened if the murderer from the Saw movies had become an architect. This vast country pile in the Second Empire style is lusciously adorned with oil paintings, antique furniture and hidden rooms. However, any potential buyers should know it's essentially a vast trap, filled with puzzles and monsters, designed to kill anyone wanting to investigate the massive bio-research facility beneath it. Based on Goose Creek Tower in Alaska, Finch house is a monument to the doomed family who once lived there, which explains why the bedrooms are sealed off like museum exhibits. Floors are piled up haphazardly and navigating the interior can feel like moving through the transformations of a pop-up book. Living here would be fascinating, but you'd need good joints, what with all the stairs. On the plus side, the bookcases are filled with works such as Gravity's Rainbow, Slaughterhouse-Five and House of Leaves, so you'd get to catch up on your postmodernist reading. One of the great video-game homes, this strange mansion is left in disarray after an almighty booze-up. The rooms feel very much like a lurid hangover, incorporating stomping boots, chomping toilet seats and at one point, an entire tree. What makes this classic platformer so haunting is the juxtaposition of domesticity and surreal horror. The bedroom is out of bounds and the refrigerator threatens to extend for miles. Oh, and there's an entrance to Hades on the floorplan. Nintendo's dreamy deconstruction of capitalism is so close to being a doll's house for adults that it makes sense that you get your own home to decorate. Beyond choosing the wallpaper and adding just the right indoor plants, you also have an option to fill the air with recordings of music performed by a local dog. This sounds childlike, but the compulsion to refine layouts feels like a very middle-aged kind of obsession, and in one of many brutal lunges at realism, you don't even get to enter your house without first being handcuffed to a gigantic mortgage. What's your favourite Zelda dungeon? Allow us to make the case for Snowpeak ruins, from the slightly under-loved Twilight Princess. There have been better puzzles in Zelda, and better rewards for beating a boss, but this cosy getaway high in the mountains is easily the most warmly domestic space in the entire series. It's not just down to the warmth radiating from the many hearths or the juxtaposition to the icy chill outside. It's the presence of two gentle Yetis, wandering around despite your dramatic arrival, tending to bubbling pots of stew. Lara Croft's country house may have started as a place for the games to tuck away a tutorial section, but the Manor quickly evolved into a vital part of the series' appeal. Croft isn't just gymnastic and deadly, she's absolutely minted. Her house is filled with the strangely proportioned rooms you often got when PS1 games ventured indoors, and there's often a hedge maze alongside a gymnasium. Croft has a room just for her harpsichord! And she has a butler who's happy to wearily plod along behind her and endure an eternity locked in the freezer. Luigi's Mansion was the first game to give either one of Nintendo's plumbers much in the way of a personality. It's tempting to argue that's because Luigi's thrown in among ordinary domestic clutter here, rather than being let loose to jump and dance through worlds of colourful whimsy. The mansion in question may be filled with ghosts, but it's also filled with bookshelves, hallway carpeting, light fixtures and a decent-sized kitchen. It's the perfect place for the ever-roving Marioverse to settle down for a moment and offer a sustained depiction of a single place. Jade is a photojournalist rather than a soldier, exploring a fantasy world that's based on Europe rather than the US or Japan. No wonder, then, that instead of a mansion or hi-tech HQ, she gets to live in a lighthouse on the misty shores of a quiet water world. The lighthouse doubles as a refuge and orphanage, and it's a delight to spot the little details the designers have included, whether it's the chummy mess in the living spaces, or the crayon drawings on the woodwork. Players are drawn to Botany Manor by the puzzles, which revolve around uncovering the conditions required to allow a series of flowers to grow and thrive. But the space itself is arguably the thing that draws everyone back until the game is complete. Here is a version of early 20th-century English elegance pitched somewhere between the worlds of Jeeves and Flora Poste. The colours and sense of expectant stillness, meanwhile, could come from a piece of Clarice Cliff Bizarre Ware pottery. When novelist Adrienne Delaney moves into this remote New England property seeking inspiration, she loves the giant fireplaces, labyrinthine corridors and authentic gothic chapel but isn't so keen on the presence of a wife-murdering demon intent on decapitating, stabbing or squashing residents to death. Heavily inspired by The Shining and the works of Edgar Allen Poe, adventure designer Roberta Williams built this mansion to be the ultimate gore-splattered horror house. Viewing recommended.
GMA Network
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- GMA Network
Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones practice fencing in 'Wednesday' Season 2 sneak peek
Looks like there'll be some mother-daughter bonding in "Wednesday" Season 2, Addams Family style! Actresses Jenna Ortega and Catherine Zeta-Jones, who play Wednesday Addams and her mother, Morticia, are seen practicing how to fence in a sneak peek released by Netflix this week. "It was like, 'Oh my gosh, I get to fence?'" Catherine said. During one of their practice sessions, Jenna gushed, "She's so good. You can see she was a dancer." Official scenes show Wednesday and Morticia sparring while blindfolded. "I feel lucky to be experiencing this mother-daughter dynamic with someone as incredible as Catherine," Jenna said. The sneak peek also explores more of Nevermore, and more importantly — Wednesday's brother Pugsley is now a student at the school. Actor Isaac Ordonez said that Pugsley "really wants to fit in and he really wants a friend... but it's not looking very good." Grandmama will also be introduced in the upcoming season. She will be played by Joanna Lumley. The first season of "Wednesday" premiered on Netflix in 2022, following Wednesday Addams' first year in Nevermore Academy and uses her psychic ability to solve a local murder that her father had been blamed for. Season 2 will be split into two parts. Part I will be out on August 6, while Part II will premiere on September 3. —JCB, GMA Integrated News
