Wednesday has finally arrived on Netflix and audiences have been given the opportunity to recapture the spirit of Halloween with an entertaining and slick gothic romp. It’s no wonder that fans have been excited. With Tim Burton as the eight-episode series’ co-creator and director of numerous episodes, who wouldn’t be?
The Edward Scissorhands and Sweeney Todd filmmaker is arguably the perfect fit to tackle the Addams Family, characters who first appeared in the New Yorker in 1938.
A wealth of talented crew and cast members help bring the iconic family to life once again, and emerging scream queen Jenna Ortega is perhaps the perfect choice to portray the titular daughter of Gomez and Morticia.
However, audiences have a question upon diving in: How old is Wednesday Addams in the 2022 series?
How old is Wednesday Addams in 2022 Netflix series?
Wednesday Addams is 16 years of age in the Netflix series and the character is played by Jenna Ortega, who is a 20-year-old American actress.
Although more than a few years older than her character, Jenna is convincing as a student who is reluctantly navigating her first year at Nevermore, an academy that her parents attended; it’s where they first met and fell in love.
Gomez (Luis Guzman) and Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) are determined to get their daughter into the school and Wednesday doesn’t plan to stay long, telling her roommate Enid Sinclair (Emma Myers) that her parents only sent her there because they want her to follow in their footsteps.
Looking back on previous incarnations of Wednesday, she was just six in the original TV series, whereas she’s roughly 12 or 13 in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, released in 1991 and 1993, respectively. She was portrayed by Christina Ricci in both feature films.
‘The loveliest woman I’ve ever met’
Speaking of Christina, Jenna recently spoke with The Face and was asked if she’d met Christina, who as we now know plays Marilyn Thornhill in the series.
“Oh my God, the loveliest woman I’ve ever met, ever. She’s the coolest. Christina, she did a part in our show, she came during the last two weeks of shooting. I had nothing to say to her, it was the most awkward I’ve probably felt in my entire life. Sometimes I’d say things and she’d go: ’Ooh, uh, that’s… dark.’ Things like that. I didn’t know how to handle it.”
She continued: “Since then, we’ve talked and had really great conversations. Even on the day, she was super professional, super sweet, knew everyone’s names. We never talked about Wednesday once.”
Wednesday Netflix cast
Check out the central cast members and their respective roles below:
- Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams
- Karina Varadi as a Wednesday (child)
- Christina Ricci as Marilyn Thornhill
- Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams
- Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams
- Fred Armisen as Uncle FesterGwendoline Christie as Larissa Weems
- Oliver Wickham as Larissa (child)
- Riki Lindhome as Dr. Valerie Kinbott
- Jamie McShane as Sheriff Donovan Galpin
- Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin
- Percy Hynes White as Xavier Thorpe
- Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair
- Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay
- Moosa Mostafa[a] as Eugene Otinger
- Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus
- Naomi J. Ogawa as Yoko Tanaka,
Wednesday is streaming exclusively on Netflix.
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