The creators of Wednesday might have said there are no plans to explore a queer relationship between Wednesday Addams and Enid Sinclair on the hit Netflix show, but that won’t stop the fans.
The first season of the darkly comic Addams family drama saw gloomy Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) begrudgingly befriend her rainbow-themed roomie Enid (Emma Myers).
Despite Wednesday being one point of a love triangle, with Tyler and Xavier vying for her unlit affection in season one, a section of the fandom exploded with hopes for ‘Wenclair’ (get it?).
Perhaps in part because series creators Alfred Gough and Miles Miller said a queer romance between the besties is not an avenue they plan to explore, the second season seems to offer up fewer moments for the fan edits, with Wednesday distancing herself from Enid for fear of bringing her in harm’s way.
Yet Enid actor Emma Myers says she views the queer reading fan theories as ‘fun and games’ – so long as it doesn’t extend to the real actors themselves.
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Speaking to the Metro after the second part of the sophomore season dropped on Netflix this week, Myers said: ‘I think you can read the relationship however you want to.
‘If you want to read it [as queer], go for it. If you want to read them as friends, go for it. I think it’s all fun and games for fictional people.
‘What I do say is, leave the real people out of it. But have fun shipping the characters if you want, that’s all fun and games.’
Ortega’s Wednesday is occupied with family drama and a vague threat to Enid’s life, while Enid is embroiled in the first blush of a new romance this season, so there’s certainly less ‘Wenclair’ content. Albeit, with one notable exception.
The Freaky Friday-style body swap episode in the back half of the season allows Ortega and Myers to delightfully play against their now-familiar characterisations, trading their comedy and tragedy masks for a little bit.
Wednesday suddenly dons purple and has a penchant for BLACKPINK, while Enid’s hair is slicked back and her face permanently tilted downwards.
Yet Myers says that teeing up the episode was no mean feat because the actors didn’t know the plot point was coming until they were already two episodes into filming.
Metro’s thoughts on Wednesday season 2 part 2
Senior TV Reporter Rebecca Cook shares her take…
You can’t fault this cast of heavyweights. There are just too, too many of them. The woe-centric second season might not quite have a sophomore slump, but it’s certainly contracted a case of sophomore swell.
The result is you forget certain stars are part of this spangled cast until they suddenly pop up again.
The real travesty is that this is often at the expense of Jenna Ortega’s exceptional screentime, not to mention a truly woeful dearth of Thing-content.
None of this is to say that the second half of the season is terribly bad. It just gets tied up in knots trying to do too much.
‘That episode was pretty tricky,’ she tells us, ‘because we didn’t get the scripts until a month before we started shooting that.’
‘Because we had already started filming the show, we had no extra prep time for those episodes. So it was a bit daunting.
‘I think Jen and I only got one in-person practice, and then the rest of it was us sending each other videos of our scenes. I watched a lot of her stuff in season one and I just tried to choreograph the scenes down so it wasn’t like I was improvising and then improvised something wrong.
‘I tried to study her as much as possible. But to be honest, because we don’t get the scripts in advance, it was very difficult.
‘We just had no prep time and didn’t know it was coming. But I think we did a good job at the time that we were given.’
The cast are set to return to Ireland in the coming months to get started on filming Wednesday season three, which Myers seems excited about – even if the weather there isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be.
‘To us, it really feels like summer camp, because we get to do a bunch of fun, strange things together,’ she smiled.
‘So I’m excited to be with everybody and be in the lovely wind tunnel of the lake outside in the cold. I’m so excited.’
Wednesday is available to stream on Netflix.
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