{"id":2272599,"date":"2026-02-08T14:49:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2272599"},"modified":"2026-02-08T14:49:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:49:28","slug":"why-jenna-ortega-was-hesitant-to-join-netflixs-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-jenna-ortega-was-hesitant-to-join-netflixs-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Jenna Ortega Was Hesitant To Join Netflix’s Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky, not to mention all together ooky, there’s any number of reasons why somebody might be wary of getting involved with “The Addams Family<\/a>.” For most actors, though, becoming a part of such a well-known and beloved franchise would be the opportunity of a lifetime. Jenna Ortega<\/a>‘s turn in the title role of Netflix<\/a>‘s Addams Family<\/a> spin-off “Wednesday” is a career-defining moment. However, the actor had doubts about joining the project.<\/p>\n

The first season of “Wednesday” landed on Netflix in 2022, while Season 2 arrived in two parts in 2025. The series follows Ortega<\/a>‘s 16-year-old Wednesday…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky, not to mention all together ooky, there’s any number of reasons why somebody might be wary of getting involved with “The Addams Family.” For most actors, though, becoming a part of such a well-known and beloved franchise would be the opportunity of a lifetime. Jenna Ortega‘s turn in the title […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2272600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2272599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Why-Jenna-Ortega-Was-Hesitant-To-Join-Netflixs-Wednesday.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272601,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272599\/revisions\/2272601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2272600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}