news culture Wednesday Season 2 on Netflix will be very different, says Jenna Ortega
It’s good news for some that the next season of Wednesday on Netflix is leaving the love of horror behind.
Barely 20-year-old Jenna Ortega, co-star of the Sensation Wednesday series, will serve as producer in season 2. During a filmed discussion with Elle Fanning for Variety, the star shared some anecdotes about the Netflix production’s sequel:
We decided to focus a bit more on the horror aspect of the series. Since this is a light-hearted series with vampires, werewolves and superpowers, it shouldn’t take itself too seriously.
“We’re forgoing any love interest for Wednesday, which is really great.she added, referring to season one’s love triangle involving Wednesday and characters Tyler Galpin and Xavier Thorpe. Ortega also spoke about his new position, citing a natural progression: “We already had so many ideas in mind and I’m a very pragmatic person. I want to know what’s going on.
And with a character like Wednesday, who’s so popular and so iconic, I really didn’t want to go wrong. So I try to have as many conversations as possible. On set we all got together with the writers and Tim to decide what worked and what didn’t. Of course it was very cooperative.
Keep in mind that Wednesday season 2 doesn’t have a release date yet.
The script controversy
Jenna Ortega said last March that she deliberately changed the script for the Wednesday series because she didn’t agree with the writers’ vision: “There were times on the set when I was in some ways almost lacking in professionalism, in which I started to change.” The script. The script supervisor thought I was going to do something and then I had to sit down with the writers and they were like, ‘Wait, what’s going on? Happened in that scene?” And I had to explain why I couldn’t do certain things. Everything she does, everything I had to play, had no meaning for the character. The fact that she was in a love triangle didn’t matter. A statement that had reacted violently to the striking screenwriters, who then ironically invited Jenna Ortega to join them on the picket line before reminding him that rewriting a screenplay also means writing.
