By Filming is well underway on the second season of Netflix’s smash hit “Wednesday” which began filming in May in Ireland with around half the season episodes already shot.
The show star Jenna Ortega made an appearance on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” this week. Speaking about getting back to filming, the actress says she found it daunting, considering that they shot the first season almost three years ago now.
Once she started work again, however it was like riding a bike. She told Fallon (via CB):
“I was a little terrified just because it had been years since Wednesday, since we shot the first one. We did that like two or three years ago in Romania.
So, I didn’t really know how I… I just was, I think, overthinking it. But as soon as you put on the costumes by Colleen Atwood, you get hair and makeup done, and then you take all the expression out of your face, it’s like, ‘Oh, okay. I kind of, I know how to do this. Yeah. Yeah.’”
One key difference this time is that Ortega is also a producer on the second season. As a result, she gets to make decisions regarding story and production. That is something she’s quite excited about:
“I get to decide like how blue somebody’s gonna be, or where the brains go on the floor, what prosthetics look like. It’s so exciting. It’s so much fun, actually.”
She also spoke about the new seasons major set pieces, saying each episode is filled with at least one major sequence – and that the streamer is much more confident in what they’re turning out:
“We have really incredible set pieces, is what I would say.. We’ve only done four episodes so far, but every episode has one strong, outstanding scene or factor which is nice.
Not to describe it like a movie, like they’re all movies, because they’re not, but this season just feels like we’re getting a bit more of an opportunity to do things we wanted to accomplish in the first one, just maybe didn’t have the resources or faith and we just have a lot more trust this season, which is really great.”
The second season of “Wednesday” is expected to air sometime in 2025 on Netflix.
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