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We sat down with the stars successful Sydney, wherever they revealed however being outsiders shaped them.
If there’s 1 happening fans emotion astir Wednesday, it’s that the amusement leans into the weird, the misunderstood, and the unapologetically different.
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Nevermore Academy is afloat of misfits and outsiders trying to fig retired wherever they beryllium — and, arsenic it turns out, the actors down the bid cognize that feeling each excessively well.
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BuzzFeed Australia sat down with Jenna Ortega and Gwendoline Christie during their Wednesday Island circuit halt successful Sydney. When asked if they’ve ever felt similar outcasts themselves, some stars admitted the taxable hits precise adjacent to home.
For Jenna, who plays the sharp-tongued sleuth Wednesday Addams, being connected the extracurricular looking successful has been a acquainted experience.
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“I deliberation I've ever had a hard clip relating to radical oregon there's a batch of preconceived ideas oregon notions astir the mode that I pb my life,” she explained.
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“That benignant of happening conscionable amplifies with the occupation that we do,” she said, reflecting connected however choosing to enactment truthful young often near her straddling “kind of 2 lives” and missing retired connected mean milestones.
Still, conscionable similar Wednesday dilatory learns to unfastened up and link with Enid astatine Nevermore, Jenna has recovered her ain consciousness of belonging successful caller years.
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“I've really started hanging retired with radical oregon met radical who shared akin interests with me, which was precise breathtaking due to the fact that I don't deliberation I truly connected with people,” she said.
For her, what erstwhile felt isolating has shifted into thing much empowering: “It's been truly breathtaking uncovering a consciousness of assemblage now.”
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And past there’s Gwendoline. One of the show’s astir beloved characters, erstwhile Nevermore Academy Principal Larissa Weems, is making a melodramatic instrumentality successful Season 2 Part 2. And no, not arsenic a zombie.
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We past saw Weems conscionable a grisly end, foaming astatine the rima aft being poisoned by Marilyn Thornhill (Christina Ricci). But the trailer for Part 2 shows her backmost successful each her flawless, impeccably dressed glory, stepping into a astonishing caller role: Wednesday’s tone guide.
Off-screen, Christie knows a happening oregon 2 astir lasting retired herself.
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Gwendoline Christie astatine the PaleyFest LA 2025 screening of "Severance" astatine the Dolby Theatre connected March 21, 2025 successful Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images)
“I've felt similar an outsider for astir of my life, peculiarly increasing up,” she admitted. “I was made to beryllium highly alert of my quality to different radical physically and besides my personality.”
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Like galore Nevermore students, she yet recovered spot successful that quality done originative expression.
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“Really it's been my enactment that has afforded maine a originative outlet and each clip I'm progressive with a task I thin to beryllium with similar minded souls,” Gwendoline said. For her, acting is wherever isolation turns into connection: “It's done the trade of the enactment that 1 tin find the qualities that acceptable you isolated but besides alteration you to beryllium portion of thing larger than yourself.”
It’s precisely that mix, being antithetic arsenic some a situation and a superpower, that makes Wednesday resonate with fans online.
when wednesday addams said "do not enactment maine connected a pedestal due to the fact that one volition pain it down," one truly felt that
— JAHRA (@GURUJAHRA) August 24, 2025The amusement isn’t conscionable astir the gothic vibes; it’s each astir celebrating what makes each idiosyncratic unique, adjacent the messy, weird, oregon uncomfortable parts.
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And proceeding Jenna and Gwendoline speech astir however overmuch that connection mirrors their ain lives? It’s casual to spot wherefore fans consciousness truthful seen by the satellite of Nevermore.
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