Jenna Ortega Shares Why We Saw Her Wednesday Character Cry Only Once

In Netflix’s comedy-horror series “Wednesday” we got to see the emotionless Wednesday Addams (played by Jenna Ortega) who thinks of no one else but herself, get emotional.

Of course, in the film, a scene where Wednesday Addams was asked by her fellow student from Nevermore Academy if she has never cried over anything before, Wednesday admitted to having cried over her dead pet Scorpion.

According to Wednesday, that was the first and last time she ever shed a tear. Anyways, that was a story. It happened when Wednesday was still a kid. She thought it would be her last but, little did she know that she would shed another tear in the course of her stay at Nevermore Academy.

Jenna Ortega — The One Time Wednesday Cried—And Why

Aside from her dead childhood Scorpion pet story, Wednesday got to shed tears for real in the film. This incident happened after she returned to her dorm and found her prothogé “Thing” knifed to the wall, lifeless.

She seeked help from her uncle “Uncle Fester” to revive Thing because the five fingers have always been a tremendous help to her and, it was because of her that Thing got into trouble in the first place.

After “Uncle Fester” managed to bring back Thing, Wednesday was caught wiping off a tear drop from her eyes. For a minute she thought she had lost Thing.

During her visit to “Still Watching Netflix” on Dec. 20, the actress explained why the shedding tears scene was significant to the story. Jenna said, “It’s also a really important moment for Wednesday. I think it’s the only time we really see her cry.”

Continuing, Jenna said, “I’m glad it was over him, though, I don’t think it would have made sense over anything else.”

Jenna Ortega — Jenna’s Character Wednesday

The character of Wednesday Addams has always been known to be a very private, reserved, and dark character. Jenna didn’t just blow the mind of her fans away with her portrayal of the Wednesday character, she swept them off their feet.

Jenna did the part of a spooky teenager who is every bit savage, who cares about no one but herself so well. Wednesday Addams uses the people who want to be in her life as her friends to get what she wants. She has no room for feelings nor does she get emotional about anything.

One of the scenes that left fans with their mouth open was when Wednesday was kidnapped by the Nightshade society, a secret group that’s been in Nevermore Academy since the days of Wednesday’s mom.

When the Nightshade society saw that Wednesday wasn’t interested in joining their secret group, Bianca gave the order for Wednesday to be released. But then, Wednesday stopped them on their tracks by showing them that she already freed herself from the rope she was tied with 17mins ago. She then wowed them more by saying “It’s amateurs like you that give kidnapping a bad name.”

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Another scene was when Wednesday busted a never-before-seen move on the dance floor during the school’s social day. The moves were all shades of creepy but it got fans really riled up.

Comments like, “I’m predicting this is gonna be a ‘thing’ on dance floors across the globe… Doing the ‘Wednesday.’ ‘Going all ‘Wednesday,'” and, This is how I’m gonna dance at every party from now on.” Was seen on both Twitter, and TikTok.

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