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

Probably the most surprising 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 (Woman Gaga), the highly effective specter methods 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 shocking teen hijinks facet quest. The swap shenanigans at Nevermore have 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 concerning the issues 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] have been writing as we have 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 feel it simply form of got here out of left area. To be form 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 do 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 you need to go to. So my schedule was fairly tight. Emma and I simply didn’t have a number of time to observe. However she got here in and did what she wanted to do.”

The most important problem, Ortega recalled, was “desirous to do justice to [Enid] and ensuring that Emma was proud of every part.”

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 a number 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 a number of effort in.”

Ortega admitted that taking up the position of producer for season two on Wednesday got here with a deeper sense of accountability for the enduring Addams. “It’s a giant character and a giant present and undoubtedly probably the most demanding, time-consuming, simply form of monstrous character and present that I’ve ever executed. So it’s like, I had forgotten coming into the season what an endurance check is and simply being there day by day earlier than everyone else and leaving and nonetheless working at house.”

Her protectiveness over her position gave her pause initially on the body-swap alternative: “I wouldn’t say I’m essentially happy 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 aid. “Thus far on the road and issues like that, it looks as if that’s what persons are probably the most taken by,” she stated, giving Myers credit score as soon as extra. “Once more, a number of that was on Emma, but it surely’s been a very long time since I’ve had a lot power, not to mention in that costume.”

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