Jenna Ortega Frightened That the ‘Wednesday’ Physique Swap Episode Would Suck

One of the stunning issues about season two of Wednesday needed to be the mid-season physique swap episode.

After Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) messes with getting her powers again on the grave of Rosaline Rotwood (Girl Gaga), the highly effective specter tips her. Enid (Emma Myers) finally ends up waking up in Wednesday’s physique and vice versa in a Freaky Friday throwback episode that took viewers on a stunning teen hijinks aspect quest. The swap shenanigans at Nevermore had been an enormous tonal gamble, which made for a enjoyable chapter that basically dug into why Enid and Wednesday’s polar-opposite friendship is the core of the show.

In a reside award season Q&A (shared by Rama’s Screen), Ortega talked in regards to the considerations she had with the difficult episode, which was a late addition to Wednesday season two.

“That script got here in a few weeks earlier than we shot it. I keep in mind [the showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar] had been writing as we had been going, and it wasn’t one thing that we had talked about within the pitch assembly. So it was a really brand-new story. I believe it simply type of got here out of left subject. To be type of knocked in your ft like that was thrilling.”

She was glad to have a robust co-star to play off of. “If I had to try this with anybody, I used to be so immensely grateful that it was Emma Myers, who performs Enid.”

The time crunch was a priority, although. “To be a producer, there’s much more conferences and issues like that that it’s important to go to. So my schedule was fairly tight. Emma and I simply didn’t have loads of time to apply. However she got here in and did what she wanted to do.”

The most important problem, Ortega recalled, was “eager to do justice to [Enid] and ensuring that Emma was pleased with every little thing.”

She continued to provide her co-star her flowers for changing into Wednesday.  “She was a lot of the character’s physicality, and it takes loads of focus to be that also. So I felt fairly proud after I noticed her take that so severely. It was simply very candy to see somebody put a lot effort and time into one thing that you simply had positioned loads of effort in.”

Ortega admitted that taking up the function of producer for season two on Wednesday got here with a deeper sense of duty for the enduring Addams. “It’s an enormous character and an enormous present and positively probably the most demanding, time-consuming, simply type of monstrous character and present that I’ve ever performed. So it’s like, I had forgotten coming into the season what an endurance check is and simply being there each day earlier than all people else and leaving and nonetheless working at dwelling.”

Her protectiveness over her function gave her pause initially on the body-swap alternative: “I wouldn’t say I’m essentially pleased with that episode. It actually despatched me right into a little bit of a panic. And one thing like that may end up actually unhealthy.”

Fortunately, all of it paid off and ended up changing into a success, a lot to the star’s reduction. “To this point on the road and issues like that, it looks like that’s what individuals are probably the most taken by,” she mentioned, giving Myers credit score as soon as extra. “Once more, loads of that was on Emma, but it surely’s been a very long time since I’ve had a lot vitality, not to mention in that costume.”

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