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BreakingNews.ie
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- BreakingNews.ie
Jenna Ortega says she was an unhappy person after sudden Wednesday stardom
Jenna Ortega has said she was an 'unhappy person' after feeling increased pressure and attention when she shot to global fame in the Netflix series Wednesday. The first season, which sees Ortega play the morbid character Wednesday Addams and arrive at a mysterious private school, is listed by the streaming giant as its most popular show – ahead of Stranger Things and Adolescence. Advertisement The American actress, 22, who had roles in Netflix series You and Disney Channel show Stuck In The Middle before Wednesday, told Harper's Bazaar that she felt 'incredibly misunderstood' when she became famous. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Harper's BAZAAR (@harpersbazaarus) 'To be quite frank, after the show and trying to figure everything out, I was an unhappy person,' she also said. 'After the pressure, the attention — as somebody who's quite introverted, that was so intense and so scary.' The series, which sees Wednesday try to control her emerging psychic ability and solves crimes, is returning for a second season, with Dame Joanna Lumley joining the cast as Grandmama and Steve Buscemi as Barry Dort, the new principal of the school, Nevermore Academy. Advertisement Ortega also said 'you just don't feel like you're being taken seriously', after explaining that she has to wear a schoolgirl outfit in the show when she is a 'young woman'. She said: '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.' Ortega also said that it is different for rising female stars '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'. Jenna Ortega was also in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. (Yui Mok/PA) 'But you're watching these women at the most pivotal times in their lives; they're experimenting because that's what you do.' Advertisement The actress follows child star Millie Bobby Brown, who has also made remarks hitting out at social media and the press for making comments about her growing older. Stranger Things actress Brown, 21, wrote on Instagram that the media 'was dissecting my face, my body, my choices' because they think she should be 'frozen in time' as a child actor. She also wrote: 'Disillusioned people can't handle seeing a girl become a woman on her terms, not theirs. I refuse to apologise for growing up. 'I refuse to make myself smaller to fit the unrealistic expectations of people who can't handle seeing a girl become a woman.' Advertisement However, Ortega did say she was 'very grateful' for the fans of Wednesday, who have copied her viral black dress dance, and enjoyed the programme, and said she hopes to make 'older and bolder and different' projects in the future. Since Wednesday saw her nominated for an Emmy and Golden Globe, Ortega has been in the 2024 Beetlejuice sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and 2025 dark fantasy film Death Of A Unicorn. Wednesday season two, which sees Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones continuing to play Morticia Addams, comes out on Netflix on August 6 with a first part and a second part coming on September 3. Created by cartoonist Charles Addams, the macabre family have inspired a 1960s TV show, and 1990s films starring Anjelica Huston and Christina Ricci, who also appears in Wednesday as a teacher. Advertisement
Irish Independent
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Five new podcasts to add to your playlist, from the latest updates in Diddy's trial to teens bonding over their glass eyes
This week's recommendations include Big Time, Everything Is Stories, Love Me and Deep Cover: The Truth About Sarah Conmen and chancers take centre stage in this week's podcast roundup. True fans will be captivated by stories that delve into the extremes of the human experience, as well as a summary of the latest developments in Sean 'Diddy' Combs' trial. Piece of Work Entertainment/ Campside Productions Big Time is lots of fun and a welcome, fresh take on the true crime genre. Each episode is opened by everyone's favourite bug-eyed movie star Steve Buscemi. The Reservoir Dogs and Boardwalk Empire star's cameo, albeit minimal, does bring a certain gravitas to the series. He tees up each story with an anecdotal reflection on his life and career. It's a fitting role for Mr Pink and has me questioning how much he is getting paid for his contribution.
Forbes
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Some Good News And Bad News About ‘Wednesday' Season 2's Release Date
Wednesday Credit: Netflix Wednesday's first season was one of Netflix's biggest hits. The Jenna Ortega-led Addams Family spinoff tells the story of Wednesday in her formative years, off at Nevermore, a boarding school for magical outcasts. Wednesday is the most outcast of them all, heeding no rules but her own. In the first season, she puzzles out a dark mystery while doing her best to stay below the fray. Even to her odd schoolmates, she's an oddity. New characters and cast join Season 2, including Joanna Lumley as Hester Frump, Morticia's intimidating mother, and Steve Buscemi as Nevermore's new principal, Barry Dort, taking the reins from Gwendoline Christie's Principal Weems (RIP). Of course, many of the original cast also return, including Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair, Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, Luis Guzman as Gomez Addams and Hunter Doohan as Tyler Gaplin / Hyde. Alas, it does not appear that Christina Ricci will be returning for Season 2, though there could be a trick up the sleeve that once belonged to Thing. The good news is, we don't have long to wait for Season 2. The series returns to Netflix on August 6th. The bad news is that only four of the eight new episodes are landing that day. The second half of the season will drop on September 3rd, nearly an entire month later. These split seasons became a lot more common after Stranger Things 4, which was split into two chunks about a month apart. The third season of The Witcher also split its episodes up into two parts. Perhaps the most egregious example of season-splitting was Cobra Kai's final season, which was divided into three sections spanning nearly an entire year. The trend has cooled since then, however, with fewer Netflix shows using this frustrating release model. The new season of Love, Death + Robots is being released all at once, for instance. Ah well, as the saying goes, good things come to those who wait. And then wait some more. Here's the Wednesday Season 2 trailer: The official synposes reads: I would actually prefer a weekly release model over this season-splitting. While Netflix is known for binge-watching, there's still something special about enjoying a new episode every week. It keeps the conversation going without making fans wait an entire month for a new episode.
The Independent
15-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Robert Pattinson reveals he based Mickey 17 accent on classic Coen Bros character
Robert Pattinson has revealed he based the accent for the title character in his new sci-fi comedy Mickey 17 on Steve Buscemi 's character in the Coen Brothers ' 1996 crime drama Fargo. He plays Mickey Barnes, who agrees to be an 'expendable' on a new human colony. Each time he dies during a dangerous space mission he is replaced by a new clone, with the film focusing on his 17th and 18th regenerations. Speaking at the Berlin Film Festival, Pattinson said he'd only recently come to recognize where he drew inspiration from for one of the character's distinctive accent. 'I actually think I realized today what I was doing,' Pattinson said, per Variety. 'We were doing an interview earlier and Bong said one of the thoughts he was having for 18 was Peter Stormare from Fargo. 'And then I think how that went into my head was to do Steve Buscemi as 17. I kind of did it by accident, but I don't think I realized that until today. I thought I was doing something else.' Given that it has been five years since Bong's previous film, which won Best Picture at the Oscars, anticipation is understandably high for the follow-up. Early reviews have been glowing. Anchorman and The Big Short director Adam McKay called the film 'hilarious, wild, sometimes genuinely heartbreaking and a perfect allegory for the hellscape stage of capitalism we're in right now'. In a five-star review, 'Mickey 17 is a sci-fi of the working class, of service corridors by production designer Fiona Crombie and matching jumpsuits by costume designer Catherine George,' writes Loughrey. 'It's essentially Bong's take on Alien (1979) – a comedy about how Weyland-Yutani treats people as fodder, only the xenomorph is far friendlier and interested in community solidarity. All those at the top of the food chain are howlingly awful yet, unfortunately for us, plausible. Mark Ruffalo features as former congressman Kenneth Marshall, with his tan, veneers and vulnerability to exploitation by the religious right – yes, he's obviously Trump, but Ruffalo lends him enough peculiarities that he works both as a satire and a diabolical creation in his own right. The same can be said of Toni Collette's sauce-obsessed Ylfa, Marshall's wife.'
Yahoo
07-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The World Is on Fire, and You're Reheating Nachos?
There comes a time in every Old's life when they wake up, and suddenly it seems like everyone around you is speaking a foreign language. The Youths have staged an uprising and transported you to some terrifying, unfamiliar modern-day Babel, where they're all using phrases you've never heard in your life and, according to your experience on Earth thus far, don't even make sense as a sequence of words. And there you are, grinning nervously like Steve Buscemi in 30 Rock, conspicuously trying to fit in: How do you do, fellow kids? I experienced this over the past week when I showed up to greet my best friends—my social media timelines—as I do every morning of my screen-addicted life, and suddenly everyone was talking about reheating nachos. Specifically they were talking about celebrities reheating nachos. The celebrities were, apparently, reheating other celebrities' nachos. Some celebrities were reheating their own nachos. Others rejected the concept of nachos at all. (I guess they're the ones on diets.) Gaga reheating her Judas nachos mixed with Alejandro chicken — fem top (@gayandold) February 3, 2025 She really reheated her own nachos!! — Malibu Michael 💕🌴 (@mce1201) February 3, 2025 You can lowkey tell benson boone is reheating harry styles bisexual rumors nachos — austin (@jesuissupreme) February 3, 2025 I'm not even a fan of Benson Boone but Harry Styles isn't original either. If anything they're both coming for Freddie Mercury's nachos. — 𝓜𝓪𝓰𝓪𝓷 ᥫ᭡ (@biebervellie) February 5, 2025 The white guys stay trying to make new lingo and it is never giving. I don't eat nachos honey. I'm skinny — Azealia Banks (@azealiaslacewig) February 5, 2025 I had no idea what the heck any of this meant, so I decided to delve into it. And, good lord, trying to figure out what 'reheating nachos' sparked an existential crisis. Things were already surreal on this most recent Sunday night. I was working, blogging my boob-brained lil' thoughts about the Grammy Awards, which happened to, fittingly, hinge largely on one star's boobs and another's penis. I was already suffering a dissonance of purpose of several layers, a veritable Bloomin' Onion of self-loathing. The Grammys were, in an instance I can't remember since I was a kid, actually kind of great this year. It was a marathon of spectacular performances. The winners were great (Beyoncé!). There was a touching refocusing of the Hollywood spotlight on the victims of the Los Angeles fires and the heroism of emergency workers. And stars like Lady Gaga, Doechii, and Chappell Roan were meeting the moment, speaking truth to power corruption about issues, rights, and identities that are personal to them and under attack. And here I was making some jokes about a hot new crooner adjusting his package, for clicks. Then there's the fact that, while the telecast was happening, the blizzard of alarming executive orders and DOGE's playground of malfeasance continued their winter storm of chaos. But, sure, while all of this is going on, let's give musicians some trophies and participate in an exercise that leads me to thinking things like, 'I'm so glad that song 'Espresso' is getting its due!' Listen, every court needs a jester, and I'm happy to oblige in moments like these, when maybe it's even more necessary. I can burp out some one-liners about the Grammys in times of need. But a jester needs to know the tricks of the clowns he's competing with, especially if the clowns are younger and more in-the-know. So I vowed to figure out this whole 'reheating nachos' thing. Like most memes, it didn't make any more sense once I got down to the bottom of it. And, also like most memes, that lack of logic does not matter. I did not appreciate that the first result of my Google search about this was headlined, 'Here's What The 'Reheating Nachos' Meme Means, For All You Millennials Out There.' I know we are in anti-woke times, but I still don't see a need for such violence against us Olds. Here's Buzzfeed's very helpful explanation. (Yes, I'm so elderly that I still go to Buzzfeed to have memes explained to me.): 'Think of it like this. Nachos are tasty. Everyone wants a bite. When we have leftovers, because they're so dang good, we try to reheat them. Sometimes they have hints of their prior flavor; sometimes they're soggy; sometimes you'll get a good bite; just not quite right. They don't always taste as they once you could say that, still, at heart, they hold the foundations of the original dish. Similarly, when a person or artist is seemingly inspired by someone else (like, say, Benson Boone by Harry Styles, or perhaps the both of them by Freddie Mercury, Prince, or Little Richard), sometimes it's a hit, sometimes it's a flop, sometimes it's done juuust right. Either way, you could say that they're at least trying to reheat the other person's nachos.' I'm not sure I'll ever grasp this fully enough to contribute to this meme trend myself. But, at this moment, the concept I kind of resonate with. I've been this jester before, blogging my way through silly celebrity happenings while things I believe in and institutions that matter to me were being obliterated, the world around me became unrecognizable, fear and confusion battled for first billing on my daily Playbill, and everything kind of just sucked. Now that it's all happening a second time, am I, so to speak, reheating my own nachos? I'd like to think things are different this go-round. I feel different this time. My job feels different this time. What's happening feels different this time. But it does still have that lingering soggy tortilla chip taste. I feel like we're all existing in this monumental game of Jenga, except each of those bricks carry actual stakes. The tower keeps getting wobblier and more precarious. Someone keeps poking at the piece that should make it crumble down, but it hasn't yet, and each new piece pulled makes the fact that it hasn't tumbled yet scarier and scarier—and the inevitable crash down potentially even more catastrophic. But every good game night, even one that involves this particularly traumatizing game of Jenga, needs a good snack. So let me reheat some nachos for us.
