“It was really a lovely long game with Christina,” Papsidera said. When you start to talk about a young Latina actress, she rises to the top of the heap.” “It’s also a thin world of girls that can be number one on the call sheet and handle the pressure of that, and also is accomplished in her own right.
“I had talked about Jenna a lot in going into (the casting process),” Papsidera said of Ortega. Gough and Millar knew they had found their Wednesday as soon as they met Ortega, they said. The role of daughter Wednesday eventually went to teen it-girl Jenna Ortega (“Scream,” “You,” “X”), an actress of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent. In “Wednesday,” Gomez is played by veteran performer Luis Guzmán, also from Puerto Rico. While the character of family patriarch Gomez was portrayed by White actor John Astin in the “Addams Family” sitcom from the 1960s, he was portrayed by Puerto Rican actor Raul Julia in the Sonnenfeld movies. In searching for their perfect Wednesday, Gough and Millar worked with casting directors Papsidera and Sophie Holland, among others, and said in an email to CNN that it “was always our intention to cast a Latina actress” for the role, because they wanted to honor Gomez Addams’s heritage.
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