Jenna Ortega desires ‘Wednesday’ Season 2 to be extra horror, much less romance

Jenna Ortega is coming off the heels of Netflix’s Wednesday, reprising her position as Tara Carpenter in Scream VI, and she or he’s set to host Saturday Night time Reside(Opens in a brand new tab). However alongside her glowing repertoire, she’s identified for her frank, deadpan supply and distinctively sincere humor.

All of this comes by way of throughout her look on The Tonight Present, when she spoke to host Jimmy Fallon about her performances, attending award exhibits, and the longer term for Wednesday Addams in Season 2 .

“I believe we need to up the horror side just a little bit, then get Wednesday out of the romantic state of affairs and simply let her be her personal particular person and battle her personal crime,” she tells Fallon with a smile. Just lately, Ortega revealed her stance(Opens in a brand new tab) on among the plotlines in Wednesday, telling Dax Shepard on his Armchair Skilled podcast that she wasn’t all the time proud of the script and grew protecting of the character: “Her being in a love triangle made no sense,” she advised Shepard.

Ortega additionally spoke to Fallon concerning the latest SAG Awards, together with working with Aubrey Plaza(Opens in a brand new tab) and being nervous to satisfy Paul Mescal (“I could not look him within the eye”).