Jenna Ortegahas dusted off her dancing shoes for a special occasion.
The 20-year-old actress is set to make her hosting debut on this weekend’s episode ofSaturday Night Live. Ahead of her appearance, Ortega stepped back into the character of Wednesday Adams to recreate the now-infamous viral dance number from her Netflix showWednesday in anew promo for the episode.
Decked out in fullWednesday-inspired attire, the promo begins with the comedy trio Please Don’t Destroy (Ben Marshall, John Higgins and Martin Herlihy) approaching the actress to ask her to dance one more time.
“Honestly, this is really well-written,” Ortega says after looking through a script that suggests the idea. “I just don’t feel like I want to do theWednesdaydance for promo because we’ve seen so much of it already. I think it’s time to do something new.”
Wednesday.Courtesy of Netflix
As the camera pans to the trio, Ortega points out their outfits after they expressed they “didn’t want to do the dance either,” with one funnyman responding while pretending to be unaware of Ortega’s Addams family character, “Is this from your television program?”
Another jokes: “Wednesday Addams? More like Thursday Jones.” After some hesitation, Ortega jumps in to dance along with the trio as the promo ends.
As for that “well-written” comment about herSNLpromo, it comes at an interesting time after Ortegadetailed the amount of input she had while filmingthe breakout series.
“I don’t think I’ve ever had to put my foot down more on a set in a way that I had to onWednesday,” she toldDax Shepardon this week’sArmchair Expertpodcast. “Everything that [Wednesday] does, everything that I had to play, does not make sense for her character at all,” according to Ortega. “Her being in a love triangle made no sense.”
She gave an example: “There was a line about, like, this dress she has to wear for a school dance and she said ‘Oh my God, I love it. I can’t believe I said that, I literally hate myself.’ I had to go, ‘No.’ There was times on that set I almost became unprofessional in a sense where I just started changing lines.”
Ortega continued, “I grew very, very protective of her. You can’t lead a story and have no emotional arc.”
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Saturday Night Liveairs Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC,Wednesdayis now streaming in full on Netflix.
source: people.com
