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It was years before I could admit that it might be a bit of both. Like so many queer kids trying to figure out their sexuality with little or no exposure to queerness (at least in a positive light), it was hard to tell whether I wanted to be Wednesday or kiss her. But beneath my hero-worship, something deeper throbbed. Wednesday’s refusal of social norms was a balm for my own sense of alienation from the world around me. I preferred reading or playing by myself to playing with girls, whose activities could be incredibly stressful as I rarely understood what was going on nor what was expected of me. I didn’t see the point of dolls, and I hated dresses. They’re perky and chirpy, with “hair the color of the sun” and “skin like fresh milk.” Wednesday refuses the imposition of acceptable femininity all around her, staying true to her pale solemnity and shapeless black smocks.īy nine, I already suspected I wasn’t quite like other girls, or at least not the image they projected. In particular, it was Wednesday who captured how deeply alien I felt to everyone around me.Īt Camp Chippewa, Wednesday is confronted with the world of adolescent girls from which she has been apparently shielded in the cocoon of the Addams clan. We may not have looked like the Addams-for starters, we lived in a cardboard cut-out bungalow in nowhere suburbia, rather than a creepy mansion in the middle of a treeless wasteland-but my family felt as out of place in Ireland as the Addams must have felt at the wholesome Camp Chippewa, where they arrived en masse to drop off Wednesday and her brother Pugsley. Growing up in an atheist, “broken” home in an Ireland still beholden to the Catholic Church, I felt an immediate kinship with the Addams Family and their disjuncture with the world around them. From the moment Wednesday appeared on screen, sawing posts from her staircase and speculating about the need to kill off one of her siblings, I was enthralled. None of the animated Disney offerings I had seen up until that point- The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast-prepared me for the live-action thrill of Addams Family Values. I was nine in 1993, just old enough to see the PG film in theaters. Out of all the live action and animated iterations of Wednesday over the past 60 years, my closeted tween and autistic heart still clings to Cristina Ricci’s wonderfully deadpan performance in Addams Family Values.

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This school for the “gifted” becomes the setting for mischief, murder, and mayhem in a series centered around one of cinema’s most iconic goth girls. In Tim Burton’s adaptation of the classic Charles Addams cartoon, premiering on November 23rd, Nevermore Academy receives Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) after her eighth public school expulsion-this time, for castrating the resident jock and school bully.

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“Have you ever been told you’re different, odd, or simply don’t belong? In a world full of normies, do you feel like an outcast?” So says principal Larissa Weems (Gwendoline Cristie) as she introduces Nevermore Academy in the upcoming Netflix series Wednesday.

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