Jenna Ortega reveals five favorite costumes from Wednesday beside custom Nevermore school uniform

Dressing up as Wednesday Addams no longer needs to be reserved for Halloween.

Following the massive success of Tim Burton’s Addams Family reboot, series lead Jenna Ortega on Wednesday reflected on her five favorite looks from the supernatural series, which has sparked a goth fashion renaissance.

While her character primarily dons her Nevermore school uniform, which consists of a black pinstripe blazer, pleated midi skirt, and black platform oxfords, Ortega said the ‘stitched’ catsuit her character wore to canoe is her outfit. ‘number one’.

“A lot of the material looked like leather,” he noted in a Netflix trailer, after hilariously revealing that it was extremely difficult to pee.

She continued: “The only thing that sucked is that we had to wear a wetsuit underneath.”

Eventually, after speaking with the wardrobe team, the actors were able to cut a ‘hole’ in their ‘crotch area’ to use the bathroom.

“I think costumes are a very, very important part of movie making, and even acting, I feel like when the costumes are done right, it instantly makes you feel like the character,” he continued. And it’s easier to do your job, I think, honestly.

She then praised hairstylist Colleen Atwood for being a “legend” and her “incredible work” on the series.

“It’s like witchcraft,” raved the actress. “She adds three buttons to something and it gets a lot bigger.”

As for her second favorite look, Ortega said it was the original Wednesday-inspired dress worn by Christina Ricci.

“I think the first time I put the original dress on, it felt like a Wednesday, and that was my first experience with it,” she said. ‘…It’s obviously iconic.’

“I felt very, very lucky to wear it. And I was always so excited when we would do some kind of promo shoot or something, just to put the dress back on,” she said.

During the interview, the You star praised her “light and airy” ball gown, which she described as beautiful and classic.

“It was so much better than the outfits she wore to school dances when she was young,” she reflected.

Other standout looks for the actress included her all-black fencing outfit and her ‘watch look,’ which included a cute leather jacket.

Ortega recently sparked a backlash on social media, after admitting that he filmed his iconic dance scene on the show while displaying coronavirus symptoms.

After revealing that she overcame intense “body aches” and other telltale signs of COVID-19 until receiving a positive test, the actress raised questions about the protocols followed on set amid the pandemic, between September 2021 and March 2022. , in Romania.

“It was something dangerous, unethical and extremely selfish, both on their part and on the part of the directors and producers,” shot a Twitter user. “There is absolutely no positive way to spin an actress by knowingly exposing hundreds of cast and crew members to COVID.”

Another questioned “why the hell didn’t they send her home?” if she felt that she had been “hit by a car” and had “dropped a little goblin” down her throat.

A third fan insisted that the star “filming that dance scene while having COVID is not impressive.”

‘It is awful. An absolutely insensitive indifference towards her co-workers,’ the woman said, before saying that she hopes to see Ortega’s interview with NME ‘cited in lawsuit’.

Overall, many were outraged by the interview, who felt it seemed like she was “bragging about working while super sick and waiting for her COVID test” as if it were a “flex.”

The protest comes in response to a recent interview, in which she revealed that her dance scene was her “first day with COVID, so it was horrible to film.”

“I woke up and, it’s weird, I never get sick and when I do it’s not too bad, I had body aches. I felt like I had been hit by a car and that a pixie had come loose in my throat and was scratching the walls of my esophagus,” she described.