Key Points
Jenna Ortega shares what it was like to film the final scene of Part 1.
Ortega talks about Enid and Wednesday’s relationship and why it’s so important.
Emma Myers shares her favorite episodes of Part 2.
This article contains spoilers for Part 1 of Wednesday season 2.
For the first four episodes of Wednesday‘s second season, the teenage sleuth has had a lot on her plate. Not only has her family complicated matters by joining her at Nevermore this year, but there’s also a new killer in town. Oh, and then there’s the small issue of Wednesday’s (Jenna Ortega) visions telling her that she’s going to be the cause of Enid’s (Emma Myers) death.
“I think it’s really important to see girls looking after each other and caring about one another,” Ortega tells Entertainment Weekly during an interview for our latest digital cover story. “I don’t think anyone could look at our show or look at any of the relationships between the women —besides maybe the familial ones — and see them as anything but supportive or understanding. And that’s really great to see, especially in a school environment.”
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Hunter Doohan as Tyler on ‘Wednesday’
The good news — at least for now — is that Enid has survived the first half of the season. The bad news is that Part 1 ended with Tyler (Hunter Doohan), in full Hyde form, launching Wednesday out of a second story window before escaping from Willow Hill Psychiatric Hospital.
“It’s the first time, at least in the season, where Wednesday truly is out of her depth,” Ortega says of the moment Wednesday comes face-to-face with the Hyde. “They were talking about me running down the hall or me doing some sort of slide underneath [the Hyde], and I remember telling them, ‘I don’t think so, because this isn’t an action show. And Wednesday’s too smart for that. She has to understand that there’s no chance. She could run, but it’s a huge monster.’ So, I started saying that, and then it kind of piggybacked into Tim’s idea of it just being this really, really quiet silence, which stands out from the rest of the episode.”
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Emma Myers as Enid and Jenna Ortega as Wednesday on ‘Wednesday’
Director Tim Burton made the choice not to show the actual moment where the Hyde throws Wednesday, instead cutting to outside of the window, where audiences sit in a brief silence before the heroine comes crashing through. “It felt very poetic and dramatic and surprising,” Burton says of the decision. Ortega adds, “We don’t need to see everything. Sometimes it’s better to leave it to the audience’s imagination.”
Thanks to a Part 2 preview — and EW’s exclusive first-look photos — we know Wednesday isn’t really dead. Thanks to creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, we also know that Enid is still in danger. And according to the cast, that leads to a lot of good episodes for the rest of the season.
“All of my favorite episodes are in the back half of the season,” Myers says. “My favorite episode is 7; I had a blast shooting it. Wait, episode 6 is crazy too! Episode 6 was probably the most difficult thing I’ve ever had to film. I’m so excited for people to watch. They’re gonna die.”
For Ortega, it’s all about the big finale. “The finale episode, we did have a ball,” she says. “You could tell Tim was in the zone, and it’s very graphic and comic book-esque at times. That was very exciting.”
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Part 2 of Wednesday premieres on Sept. 3 on Netflix.
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