While speaking with GamesRadar+, Ortega explains that she wants the arguing to stop between Wednesday and Morticia and for the duo to team up instead. After seeing many of Wednesday’s female characters teaming up toward the end of season 2, Ortega hopes the show will lean into more of this for season 3. Check out her comments below:
I would like them [Morticia and Wednesday] to stop arguing and team up. We’d just been talking about women banding together, and you see that a bit in the final episode, or episodes. I think we should lean into that. It’s really exciting and refreshing to see women displayed that way.
In terms of what Ortega wants to see beyond Wednesday’s relationship with Morticia, she wants the titular character to confront “the darker side of herself” more without the show “taking things too seriously.” She also wants to see more of Wednesday torturing or trying to kill her brother, Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez), which is more prominent in other Addams Family adaptations.
I think it’s important to see Wednesday deal with the darker side of herself a little bit, too – but also never taking things too seriously. And I would like to see more death attempts between her and Pugsley. She doesn’t try to kill him enough! I want to see stuff like that.
Zeta-Jones agrees with Ortega about the direction that Wednesday and Morticia’s relationship should take. Instead of their relationship mirroring the tense dynamic between Morticia and her mother, Hester Frump (Joanna Lumley), Zeta-Jones would like to see Morticia break this cycle with her daughter. She also hopes to learn more about what went wrong between Morticia and Hester.
Now that we’ve introduced the wonderful Joanna Lumley as my mother, I’d like to tell more about that story. We left it on a bit of a cliffhanger, but what was it that got to that situation? And how, as a mother, I don’t want that to happen in this relationship [with Wednesday].
You know, teenagers and mothers do actually go over to the other side of this contentious relationship that a lot of women and mothers and daughters relate to in the show. I’d like to see the maturity of this mother/daughter relationship a little bit more and some kind of amends to what this relationship with my mother is about – or where it really festered, for want of a better word.
Based on Wednesday season 2’s ending, there is a good chance that both Ortega and Zeta-Jones will see some of their wishes fulfilled in season 3. Wednesday and Morticia now have a level of understanding between them that they previously did not have, which bodes well for them teaming up and to avoid repeating the negative dynamic of Morticia’s relationship with her own mother.
The cliffhanger reveal of Hester keeping her other daughter, Ophelia, secretly captive indicates that more of the family backstory will be explored as well. This is a natural way to unpack the history between Morticia and Hester, especially after Wednesday’s vision of Ophelia and as she likely investigates the dark truth of what happened to her aunt.
After criticism of season 1 focusing too much on a love triangle storyline for Wednesday, season 2 avoided going this route with her character. Wednesday season 3 has the opportunity to make a similar course correction, this time with Wednesday and Morticia’s relationship, which was criticized by many fans for straying too far from the traditional Addams Family dynamics.