Jenna Ortega Teases ‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Will Be “A Lot More Action-Packed”

Jenna Ortega is revealing a bit more about the second season of Wednesday.

On the red carpet at the 75th Emmy Awards, the star of the Netflix series revealed that she’s read finally read some scripts for Season 2.

“We’re definitely leaning into a little bit more horror but it’s really, really exciting because all throughout the show, while Wednesday does need a little bit of an arc, she never really changes and that’s the wonderful thing about her,” Ortega teased to E! “There’s really, really good one-liners, and I think everything’s bigger, it’s a lot more action-packed. Each episode will probably feel a little bit more like a movie, which is nice.”

Wednesday, which was renewed in January, hails from MGM Television and from Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar and executive producer/director Tim Burton. So far, there hasn’t been much information about where the series will go in Season 2.

Gough and Millar have hinted that we might see more Addams family members and explore further Wednesday’s relationship with her mother. Ortega, who is becoming a producer for Season 2, had already indicated that the show would have stronger emphasize on horror over teen romance.

Wednesday is expected to begin shooting its second season in April. The Addams Family offshoot will be filmed in Ireland, moving production from Romania, where Season 1 was shot from September 2021-March 2022.

Wednesday Season 1 sits atop Netflix’s Top 10 list for most popular English-language series with 252M views, almost double the views for its nearest competitor.

Other executive producers on the series include Steve Stark (Toluca Pictures), Andrew Mittman (1.21 Entertainment), Kevin Miserocchi (Tee and Charles Addams Foundation), Kayla Alpert, Jonathan Glickman (Glickmania), Gail Berman, Tommy Harper and Kevin Lafferty.