Jenna Ortega Calls 'Wednesday' Character A 'Creepy Little Freak'

Jenna Ortega, who portrays the iconic Wednesday Addams in Netflix's "Wednesday," is calling her character a "creep."

During an appearance at New York Comic Con, Jenna Ortega, spoke on her character and the impact she has had on viewers and fans everywhere.

"She's a creepy, little freak," Ortega said of her character at the event. "But her impact is absolutely unparalleled. I've never seen a normal person bring a group together like this, and create a family like this, and create a legacy like this, and that's just a testament that we need weirdos in the world, and they're what make the world go around."

"Be weird, watch the show like do what you want to do," she added. "And another beautiful thing too, about cinema and film is it should be reflective of what the real world is, but it's a break from reality."

Ortega continued, "We want to go home and, you know, leave our jobs and watch something that makes our brain turn off for a little bit and gives us adrenaline and makes us happy and makes us sad, and for a show like this, it has such a wide variety of characters it really does bring so much emotion and that is the intention."

"And again, just sit back, enjoy the show. Relate, don't relate, that's your business, not mine," she concluded.

Watch the full clip below.

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"Wednesday" season 2 is currently in the works, although no release date has been announced at this time.

Jenna Ortega has been confirmed to reprise her role as Wednesday Addams in the Netflix original series.

After Melissa Barrera was fired from "Scream VII" for her stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict, Jenna Ortega announced she would not be returning to the franchise due to filming conflict with "Wednesday" season 2.

Barrera made a post on her Instagram Stories, which read, “Gaza is currently being treated like a concentration camp. Cornering everyone together, with nowhere to go, no electricity no water … People have learnt nothing from our histories. And just like our histories, people are still silently watching it all happen. THIS IS GENOCIDE & ETHNIC CLEANSING.”

Spyglass, the company behind "Scream VII", issued a statement following Barrera's firing, which read, “We have zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion or anything that flagrantly crosses the line into hate speech.”

The “Scream VII” director, Christopher Landon, also posted a statement on X, the social media platform formely known as Twitter, which read, “This is my statement: Everything sucks. Stop yelling. This was not my decision to make.” He later deleted the statement from social media.

Jenna Ortega has yet to comment on the backing out of "Scream VII" or the firing of her "Scream" co-star. Ortega and Barrera played sisters Tara and Sam Carpenter, respectively, in the 2022 film “Scream” and reprised those roles in “Scream VI.”