Jenna Ortega’s Latina Influence Is All Over the New Season of ‘Wednesday’

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The gates of Nevermore Academy creak open again. Shadows settle into old corners and a sharper wind cuts through its grounds. But this time, Wednesday Addams walks its halls with family in tow, enemies in disguise, and a cast lit by Latino talent as sharp as her stare.

Jenna Ortega leads the charge once more, not only as Wednesday, but as producer of a season that peels back new layers of identity and power. Ortega, whose roots trace to Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, steps into Wednesday’s skin like a second language — every glare, every silence, every half-tilted smirk weighted with history and instinct. “To have gotten the opportunity to play her once was incredible,” she tells Tudum. “To slip into the costume and tone again, it’s so much fun.”

The Addams Family Expands the Shadows

This time, Nevermore doesn’t belong to her alone. Isaac Ordonez joins as Pugsley, younger brother and reluctant first-year. Luis Guzmán and Catherine Zeta-Jones return as Gomez and Morticia Addams, haunting the school halls and dragging Wednesday’s sense of control through familiar family friction. “Your family at school is the worst thing possible,” Tim Burton tells Tudum. “Wednesday is an even more extreme version of that.”

Guzmán, born in Puerto Rico and raised in New York, brings a magnetic sense of mischief to Gomez. His presence roots the show in something older than camp — something that runs through old jokes, old warnings, old magic. With Zeta-Jones as Morticia and Ortega caught between them, the series leans into the rhythm of generational fire — love, pain, rebellion — and the quiet ache of being too much for the world that made you.

“Bringing the family to Nevermore felt like an obvious move,” creator Miles Millar says. “More conflict for that character.” But also, more room for the culture stitched into each of them — whether whispered in Gomez’s tone or carved into Wednesday’s silence.

What to Expect This Season of ‘Wednesday’

The show stretches wider this season. It offers more screen time for Bianca (Joy Sunday), Enid (Emma Myers), and even Thing — who, according to Ortega, “has a lot of emotional baggage and trauma to work through.” Uncle Fester returns, too. Fred Armisen, the son of a Venezuelan-born mother, leans into chaos with the grace of someone who’s done this dance before. “Fred is the loveliest person,” Gough says. “He brings so much humor.”

And then there’s Steve Buscemi, the new principal with an aura of secrets and a few too many smiles. Joanna Lumley enters as Hester Frump — Morticia’s mother and Wednesday’s new ally. Their bond is acidic. “She nailed every single line,” Millar says. “That Wednesday-Hester relationship is unique.”

But no mystery eclipses the thrill of seeing Ortega own this role — not as a trope, not as a symbol, but as a teenage girl who knows too much and trusts no one. She’s smart, strange, and wrapped in a cultural legacy that moves in silence. Her casting was never about ticking a box. It was about burning it.

Season 2 of Wednesday premieres August 6 and September 3. The knives are out. So are the stories you were never meant to hear.

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