Gwendoline Christie was among the finest members of the forged of Wednesday throughout Season 1. Whereas she already blew me away along with her work in Recreation of Thrones, Christie crushes her function as Principal Weems. The character exudes a cultured attraction and sense of complexity that conveys Christie’s big selection of expertise as an actor. Regardless of Weems’ dying, the character is now set to return for Season 2, and Jenna Ortega simply recalled a method she and the writers initially thought of reviving the character.
Jenna Ortega has by no means shied away from discussing the inventive selections made for Wednesday. Actually, she made headlines when she bought actual about some points of the present making “no sense” to her. (Ortega had lengthy needed to up the horror parts and dial down the romance.) Only recently, the Emmy nominee admitted throughout an interview with AIChark (which was shared to TikTok) that the present made a “horrible mistake” by killing off Principal Weems. With that, Ortega revealed she formulated an thought to convey Weems again, and it concerned shapeshifting:
We had had discussions on the finish of Season 1 about – we already knew that we had been gonna kill her. So we had been saying, ‘Oh man, effectively, this has been a horrible mistake on our half. How are we gonna undo this? Is there a means we may convey her again?’ I might say, ‘Nicely, she’s a shapeshifter. Perhaps she isn’t lifeless. Perhaps all of the shapeshifters, their pure type is [Weems]. Perhaps if all of them reverted again to their preliminary state…’ That’s what I needed. We had been throwing out all these concepts, after which the writers got here up along with her being my spirit information.
I really feel just like the writers made the proper name in going with the spirit information character plot, which was only in the near past revealed. I believe having all shapeshifters seem as Weems in “their pure type” could be too difficult. Having Christie’s character return as a spirit information for Wednesday Addams is ideal for the reason that Nevermore Head of Employees tried to assist the present’s titular character throughout her time on the Academy. Weems even tried tried to assist the teenager in the long run, the notion of getting her return on this type definitely tracks.
If Wednesday Season 2 — which is a part of 2025 Netflix’s 2025 releases — had been just like the extra conventional Addams Household films and TV exhibits Principal Weems won’t be reappearing. These previous productions featured dying in comparatively definitive methods, so Weems’ poisoning would’ve been the tip. The ideas which were explored within the Jenna Ortega-led spinoff sequence, nonetheless, permit for Weems to come back again into the fold. And Ortega is thrilled about that:
We simply had been so fortunate to be enjoying in a supernatural world the place we may bend the foundations just a little bit and discover a solution to convey her again. As a result of she introduced a lot to the present and established a lot of what she — [she] simply made that environment really feel actual. It’s one in every of my favourite on-screen pairings I’ve ever had, so to have the ability to elaborate on that and go deeper and additional was an ideal pleasure.
I jumped for pleasure seeing Wednesday’s Season 2, Half 2 trailer, which revealed Weems’ return. She and Addams have an attention-grabbing dynamic and, whereas they do not all the time see eye to eye, it really works. There’s additionally a way of mutual respect between the 2. With the supernatural sequence being cut up into two elements, this subsequent set of episodes might place nice emphasis on the connection between Ortega’s character and her new spirit information.
As a fan, I am so glad Weems will not be solely returning however doing so in a fun-looking capability. Contemplating how pleased Gwendoline Christie was when Wednesday was renewed, it would not shock me in any respect if she’s thrilled she will get to proceed enjoying her imposing character. It was Christie’s gorgeous flip (full with Alfred Hitchcock influences) that made her such a standout within the first season. Watch Christie and Jenna Ortega on display collectively once more when the second a part of their present’s second season turns into accessible for Netflix subscription holders on September third.