It turns out that some of the scenes in the latest Wednesday were controversial for the directors.
Netflix’s new series about the extremely dark and highly sarcastic daughter of the Addams family has gained overwhelming popularity. Tim Burton’s latest creation was so popular with viewers that it even surpassed the recent viewing record for season 4 of Stranger Things. No wonder, after all, The Addams Family is one of the most popular series of the 1990s.
Despite the fact that Wednesday came out at the end of November and pretty much everything is already known about it, the actors and directors still manage to amaze with stories about various interesting situations from the set. In one interview, the creators talked about how they wanted to completely remove one scene because they were worried about the reception of the words spoken in it.
A scene that was destined to be misconceived
In a recent interview with Indiewire, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who are the co-creators of Netflix’s latest hit, talked a bit about the series, their ideas for it, and the ending of the current season. The creators also revealed the fact that they heavily discussed one scene and at one point wanted to remove it because they were afraid of the reception.
Netflix was always very supportive and the executives were huge Addams Family fans, [but] we still did have executives wanting to cut some lines
In the interview, it was explained that the issue in question was a line that falls in one of the scenes between Wednesday and Enid, who encouraged her friend, who is poor at relationships, to try to meet new people (“take a stab at being social”), to which the latter replied that she likes to stab.
At first, the directors were concerned about whether such an issue would pass on Netflix and not be too strong until finally one of them said that in the end, this is what the whole character is about and such a restriction would be a betrayal of her personality. That’s why the creators eventually decided to leave the scene in the series, which later went on to do very well.
Although it’s interesting that the creators were most puzzled by the fact that the word “stab” appears in one of the issues, and in fact, the whole series is based on mur*er.