The creators of ‘Wednesday’, the incredible Netflix hit, talk about a phrase that the executives tried to eliminate from the final cut of the series.
The title created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar for the Netflix series catalogue, and which has Tim Burton as its greatest supporter, has been a resounding success in its first week on the platform but, despite everything, Netflix wanted to censor a phrase from ‘Wednesday’ that was responsible for understanding its protagonistsaccording to their top managers.
In one of its first chapters, Enid (Emma Myers) tells her partner to “take a stab at being social”, a phrase that simply means “try to be social” but that, literally, the expression would come to say that “from a stab to being social”. Wednesday’s (Jenna Ortega) response was the problem, since points to the literalness of the phrase to ensure that she is “a fan of stabbings”.
“Netflix was always very supportive of us and the executives were big fans of the Addams Family but still, we had executives who wanted to cut some lines“explains Gough in an interview with indiewire.
“It’s all the fun of the character,” adds Millar. “Losing that or diluting it is a betrayal of character.“.
Gough and Millar further acknowledge that the fact that Wednesday moving out of his family home was essential to the themes of the series. and for him to find his independence. “Because of the whole Harry Potter thing, the question was whether he should be in a normal school and then be a fish out of water.” Miller explains. “But he felt like a bit of a sideline and always had to come home at night to the family we wanted him to get away from.”
East “spin-off” about one of the best-known characters created by Charles Addams It consists of 8 episodes, a “coming-of-age” that has the direction of Tim Burton in 4 of its chapters. It centers on Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy, where he attempts to master his psychic ability, thwart a murder spree, and solve the supernatural mystery involving his parents 25 years ago, all while navigating his highly tangled new lives. relations.
The person in charge of interpreting the protagonist is Jenna Ortega, whom many met with Gina Rodriguez in ‘Jane the Virgin’ (2014). She is one of the new sensations in the industry thanks to his appearance in ‘You’ and in recent release films such as ‘Studio 666’ (BJ McDonnell, 2022), ‘Scream’ (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, 2022) and in the “slasher” of the year, as We took aim in our review of ‘X’ (Ti West).
According to their own data, the series accumulated 341.2 million hours of viewing worldwide, surpassing the 335 million hours of season 4 of ‘Stranger Things’ in the week of May 30 to June 5, the best week so far for an English-language series on the streaming service.
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