Nothing in “The Addams Family” is as creepy and kooky or as mysterious and spooky as Thing, the hand
'Here We Are' review: Sondheim's last musical sadly doesn't sing'Merrily We Roll Along' review: Infamous Sondheim flop is a smashHe’s an autonomous limb with a mind of his own, but no body or speaking voice — just five fingers and a palm.
“One of the first things I wanted to do was to get Thing out of the box,” Sonnenfeld, 70, told The Post of his feature directing debut. Viewers of Tim Burton’s recent “Addams Family” Netflix series “Wednesday” can clearly observe that he took his cue from Sonnenfeld’s popular movies by allowing Thing to roam around and do similar shtick. But freeing Thing wasn’t as easy as snapping your fingers.
“There were many debates,” he said. “Lots of drawings of his wrist, and how you end a disembodied hand. Because we didn’t want him to be gruesome. We didn’t want him to be dragging around tendrils and veins, but we needed some sort of ending.”“At first I thought, ‘I’ll get a magician,” Sonnenfeld said. “I thought a magician would be great to play Thing.”
“Apparently with magicians, they’re all about sleight of hand,” he said of their ability to conceal what their mitts are doing to fool an audience. “So they were very ungraceful with their movements. They’re designed to do things quickly and all that, so none of the magicians were any good for hand movement.”When that strategy didn’t pan out, Sonnenfeld almost gave the role the silent treatment.
They auditioned about fifty mimes for the part, but Sonnenfeld realized he couldn’t bear the thought of 20 weeks of working with one. One of the darkest moments in director Barry Sonnenfeld’s search for the perfect thing was when he announced, “Bring in the mimes.”“His hands were elegant,” the director said of the final choice to play Thing. “They’re very long, they’re very good looking — and he understood what we needed.
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