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Christina Ricci Reveals "Tense" Wednesday Story From Set
Christina Ricci is sharing a scary experience.
The actress, who stars arsenic the mysterious caller character Marilyn Thornhill in Netflix's Wednesday series, explained how a planetary calamity affected the filming of the series.
After E! News asked if Ricci had "any stories from set," the histrion shared that the formed was filming successful Romania when Russian president Vladimir Putin announced an penetration of Ukraine connected Feb. 24. The warfare has since killed astatine slightest 38,000 radical and displaced astatine slightest 14 million, according to Reuters.
"We were 7 miles from that powerfulness works that astir was—the atomic powerfulness works that astir exploded," Ricci exclusively told E! News. "So it was a small tense. But we each bonded implicit however soon our authorities would get america retired of determination if thing brainsick happened."
Filming on Wednesday began in Sept. 2021 successful Bucharest, Romania, and wrapped up the adjacent March.
Ricci famously played the relation of Wednesday Addams successful 1991's The Addams Family and its 1993 sequel, Addams Family Values. Now, she's handing the relation implicit to Jenna Ortega, who volition beryllium portraying Wednesday arsenic she transfers to Nevermore Academy, which is a "safe haven" for adjacent the freakiest of supernatural children, according to the series' trailer.
But, according to Ricci, Ortega didn't request immoderate coaching to get into the role.
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"She is specified a competent big actress," the Yellowjackets star revealed. "She does not request maine telling her however to bash anything. She's truthful wonderful."
Watch Ortega's show for yourself erstwhile Wednesday premieres connected Netflix Nov. 23.
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