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"It reminds me so much of Full Metal Jacket" - Wednesday's Jenna Ortega on an "insane" season 2 episode
They're creepy and they're icky, and maybe they're Kubricky?
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For all of its creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky-ness, season 1 of Netflix's Wednesday went a little light on the actual thrills. However, according to its titular star, that's going to change in season 2. Recently, Jenna Ortega spilled the blood (er, beans) on just how frightening the second season of The Addams Family update is going to be, even comparing it to another intense project: that is, Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket.
Speaking with Collider, Ortega waxed macabre on the visuals of the second season of Wednesday, which sees her returning as the murder-obsessed goth teen who becomes the head detective at Nevermore Academy.
"It's insane," Ortega said of the looks of the second season, "So bizarre. I just feel like there are a lot of scenes and frames, and there's a whole episode based off of slashers, and we make a lot of horror references. So, everything about it, I feel like we kind of had a little bit more trust, and therefore, we felt like we could do bigger, more elaborate sequences, which is nice."
Maybe she's not as much of a fright-expert as the character she plays, but Ortega is something of a horror expert. She's starred in the Scream franchise, Ty West's X, and plays a leading role in A24's upcoming darkly comic chiller Death of a Unicorn. So when she praises the vicious visuals in a project, you can expect something hair-raising. Still, Ortega didn't rely on comparisons to her own previous work to sell the upcoming season.
"It's crazy to talk about one frame like this," she says at one point in her interview, "But there is a frame of Pugsley rolling his eyes back with this contraption around his head—that's all I can say— and it reminds me so much of Full Metal Jacket."
What could Ortega mean by this? After all, though Full Metal Jacket is absolutely a gut-wrenching film, it's not particularly considered a horror project, Stanley Kubrick's famously intense character work notwithstanding. We'll just have to wait for the second season of Wednesday to find out.
Wednesday season 1 is streaming now on Netflix.
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