There are only a few who do not know of the rich history that comes along with time’s beloved Wednesday.
Successor to none other than the spook-sprinkled family sitcom The Addams Family.
As the 1938 kick-starter of the massive fan-cum-support-system backed franchise of Wednesday Addams, it also serves as the home of the family’s little girl, most iconic of whom, is noted to have been played by spook-star Christina Ricci.
With audiences waiting for the new-age Wednesday
centering around the straight-faced teenager Wednesday to get its reprise as a second season, new trivia around the history of the iconic goth-inspired sensation is being turned over.
The second star of Wednesday: Christina Ricci
Known for her roles, and even her very own favorites; as Wednesday Addams and as Kat in The Addams Family
(1991) and Casper
(1995), in that order, Christina Ricci is a spookstress pioneer, one out of all else that she has done for the genre. Clearly seen in the little clip shared by Entertainment Tonight, via X, the actress in her younger days seems to have created the iconic stone faced child by hand. Mouth down-turned and eyes giving off the cold but amused manner in which Wednesday presents her higher-than-thou self to the world.
Christina Ricci reacts to playing her iconic early roles in ‘The Addams Family’ and ‘Casper.’ pic.twitter.com/LIU67IsSGu
— Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) February 28, 2025
Being crowned as the first goth-icon of the sly and spook-stricken little girl, Ricci has managed to create an image of the character that turned into her blueprint. Having several of the latter additions into the franchise being centered around what she had done for the character in her time, whenever the topic would fall on the niche of Wednesday Addams.
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The most recent developments in the franchise, however, have been keeping the spectators and avid followers on edge for quite a while now, ever since the curtains were closed on the first season of the 2022 reprise based on Wednesday by Netflix.
Much ado about Wednesday season 2
Taking over the platform with colossal results, Wednesday,
starring Jenna Ortega, was bound to get a few many reboots to its after its commencement, over the years. But the audience-anxiety being a very real phenomenon, a sequel to the first season needed to be pushed a little. The dry spell being dotted with chances of cancellation or dropping of the show, the Netflix global hit, second only to Squid Gam
e
,
has been confirmed to be making a comeback this year, but with drop date due as of yet.
The second season of the show is said to be furthering Wednesday’s journey through supernatural school Nevermore, as she faces her fears (ahem) one by one.
she is so effortlessly funny pic.twitter.com/FxKqrIVidv
— shay (@moonriccii) February 21, 2025
Wednesday Addams has pawed out her comfortable spot in the hearts of cinephiles, fashionistas and a regular pass-byers, alike. Not only with her gothic, mysterious, macabre appeal, but with the wide-eyed innocence of being a teenager experiencing the violence of kindness through love and friendship for the very first time, as well. The character’s evolution through performances as iconic as Christina Ricci’s has cemented her status as a cultural icon, not to be uprooted any time soon.
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