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Wednesday Season 2 Eyes April Start in Ireland, Not Romania: Report

Netflix & Tim Burton's Jenna Ortega-starring Wednesday Season 2 is reportedly eyeing April for a production start in Ireland (not Romania).

The last time we checked in on how things were looking with the second season of Netflix & Tim Burton's Jenna Ortega-starring Wednesday, Ortega, Hunter Doohan (Tyler Galpin), Emma Myers (Enid Sinclair), and Joy Sunday (Bianca Barclay) were fielding fan theories & offering their thoughts during the streamer's TUDUM global fan event. But they weren't just offering opinions – with the foursome confirming that a new member of the Addams family will be introduced during the second season. Now, Deadline Hollywood is reporting some exclusive news about the second season's production now that the SAG-AFTRA strike ended (pending the new deal being ratified by the union). The latest rumblings are that a production start time frame of late April is being eyed – along with the filming location moving from Romania for Season 1 to Ireland for Season 2. With the second season of the global phenomenon a priority for the streaming service, reports are that the options for the main cast from the first season have been extended while scriptwriting continues.

Here's a look at Ortega, Doohan, Myers, and Sunday tackling your toughest Wednesday theories and letting you know if you're on the right track – or dead on arrival:

Wednesday: Jenna Ortega Updates Season 2

Now, we learning some more thematic specifics when it comes to what viewers can expect with Season 2, thanks to a conversation between Ortega and Elle Fanning (Hulu's The Great) as part of Variety's "Actors on Actors" interview series. "We've decided we want to lean into the horror aspect of the show a little bit more. Because it is so lighthearted, and a show like this with vampires and werewolves and superpowers, you don't want to take yourself too seriously," Ortega shared during the conversation. "We're ditching any romantic love interest for Wednesday, which is really great." With her new producing title for the second season, Ortega can now be a part of the creative process for the season right from the jump.

"We had already been throwing out so many ideas, and I'm somebody who's very hands-on. I want to know what's going on. And with a character like Wednesday, who is so beloved and such a legend, I just really didn't want to get her wrong. So I try to have as many conversations as possible. On set, with the writers and Tim [Burton], we all would get together and decide, 'Okay, what works and what doesn't?' It was naturally already very collaborative," Ortega explained. "So in preparation for a second season, we wanted to get ahead of the curve and make sure that we could start the conversations earlier," Ortega continued. "And I'm just so curious. I want to see the outfits, new characters that are coming in, scripts, and they were gracious enough to let me put the producer hat on."

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