Netflix’s Wednesday debuts its full trailer, revealing Christina Ricci’s role in the series
Straight from New York Comic Con, Netflix has released the full trailer for Wednesday, their upcoming Addams Family reboot series featuring Jenna Ortega in the title role. Plenty of new footage is revealed in the full trailer but two major confirmations are also shown off with confirmation of two highly anticipated characters.
Ever since it was confirmed that Ricci, who played the part of Wednesday Addams in the Barry Sonnenfeld-directed movies in the 1990s, fans have been wondering what her role in the series would be. Now that Ricci's part has been confirmed, she appears to be playing a teacher at Wednesday's new school, the cat is officially out of the bag. For Ortega though, playing the part of Wednesday Addams was already nerve-wracking but then performing in front of Ricci made it even worse.
"I felt like I was genuinely having a panic attack when I was told," Ortega previously revealed to Empire Magazine."I was terrified. She's a really cool lady. I was fine meeting her, but the first time we did a scene together and she had to see me done up the way she was done up 30 years ago, it was nerve-racking."
Netflix describes Wednesday as"a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams' years as a student at Nevermore Academy, where she attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the murder mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore.
Ortega leads a cast that includes Gwendoline Christie as Nevermore Academy Principal Larissa Weems, Jamie McShane as Sheriff Galpin, Percy Hynes White as Xavier Thorpe, Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin, Riki Lindhome as Dr. Valerie Kinbott, and Christina Ricci as Marilyn Thornhill. Also featured are Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair, Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay, Naomi J Ogawa as Yoko Tanaka, Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Ottinger, and Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus.