Spoilers for Wednesday Season 2, Episode 7 are forward! Learn with warning, and stream the collection with a Netflix subscription.
When Wednesday Season 1 got here out, Jenna Ortega’s dance quantity took the world by storm. Now, with Girl Gaga concerned, Season 2 has upped its dance recreation by giving Enid and Agnes the large quantity within the present’s run on the 2025 TV schedule. Let me let you know, I feel it completely lives as much as the OG quantity, and is even higher in some methods. And I like it much more after the actresses who play the characters doing the strikes instructed me about an Addams Household Easter egg and the way they filmed the sequence.
The Addams Household Easter Egg That’s Featured In Agnes And Enid’s Dance
After catching the eye of Girl Gaga with Wednesday’s Season 1 dance, and her track “Bloody Mary” being utilized in TikToks of it, she was closely featured in Season 2’s sequence. That’s as a result of she offered the track “The Useless Dance” for the women to bop to. Nevertheless, this wasn’t the one enjoyable connection; there was additionally a cute Addams Household Easter egg embedded within the choreography as Evie Templeton, who performs Agnes, instructed me throughout an interview for CinemaBlend:
I imply, by way of Easter eggs, I suppose we reference Factor after we do, like, the crawl throughout [our arm]. That was sort of the inspiration behind that. Yeah, that was enjoyable.
It positive was enjoyable, and after I watched the infectious dance for the primary time, I used to be questioning if that was an homage to Factor. Effectively, it’s confirmed it was, and you’ll see the lovable transfer (in addition to the opposite nice choreography) beneath:
Nevertheless, the Easter egg is sort of the place the Addams Household affect begins and ends. Whereas the dancing on this season’s quantity is paying homage to Wednesday’s dance in some methods, it’s additionally completely completely different.
Myers instructed me that was intentional. They needed to make their very own factor, they usually liked doing it, particularly since each she and Templeton have “dance backgrounds.” She defined:
We did not take something from Season 1. We weren’t making an attempt to recreate any viral moments or the dance from Season 1. I feel we needed to make it our personal factor. However we labored with a tremendous choreographer named Corey [Baker], who had this wonderful dance deliberate out. And, yeah, I simply assume it was inventive outlet for all of us, as a result of Evie and I each come from dance backgrounds, so it was good to type of faucet into that once more.
Effectively, I’d say they actually completed that aim. Very like the dance Jenna Ortega helped create for Season 1, Season 2’s massive quantity is already going viral, with followers recreating it on social media:
Nevertheless, the Addams Household homage and infectious new choreography aren’t the one issues that made this scene so unbelievable. So, we have to speak about among the different components that basically made this complete scene exceptional.
Evie Templeton Broke Down How She And Emma Myers Ready For Their Wednesday Dance
Don’t get me incorrect, I’m obsessive about the Season 1 dance. Nevertheless, there’s no query that Season 2’s is extra elaborate, and it hits in a brand new and distinct method. That was what they have been working laborious to do, too, as Templeton instructed me that they spent weeks rehearsing. She stated:
Two weeks, I feel, about two weeks of rehearsing, after which we type of did, like a costume rehearsal, as a result of we had these beautiful robes, however costume needed to – they very kindly modified them barely in order that we may transfer round and breathe.
Their beautiful clothes actually added to the extravagance as properly, which I completely adored.
Nevertheless, the factor that basically catapulted this quantity to iconic standing got here with the invisible lifts Agnes and Evie did. It was such a enjoyable option to spotlight Agnes’ energy, and it was a visible phantasm I couldn’t get sufficient of.
Myers stated they needed to movie these moments thrice every to seize them completely, and Templeton detailed precisely how they did that, saying:
Yeah, we do one the place I used to be lifting Emma and doing the flip. After which they’d do one with one of many dancers in a blue go well with. After which they did one other one with Emma, like, on a stunt rig, after which I would be on it, after which step off in order that they might feed it and get a high shot.
What a tremendous course of, and what an exquisite product!
It regarded like these two girls have been having a blast on the dance flooring, and I like how distinctive this quantity was. It provides an ideal scene to a now-growing checklist of Wednesday dance numbers, and I like the way it each paid homage to the Addams Household and one of many causes the OG strikes went viral with Girl Gaga’s music, whereas additionally being its personal wonderful second.