The history of cinema is full of mythical dances that have made history, from ‘Dancing in the rain’, to ‘Saturday Night Fever’, ‘Dirty dancing’, ‘Joker’ or ‘Pulp Fiction’ to mention just a few of the most famous. The premiere of ‘Wednesday’ on Netflix in November also left a dance scene for history from the television. Jenna Ortega exudes magnetism as Wednesday Addams with her amazing dance choreography high school from Nevermore Academy.
The leading actress had already said that, without being a dancer or choreographer, she invented the different steps that Wednesday Addams develops, becoming the star of the dance floor. She also revealed that in those days she was feeling quite bad and later he learned that he had COVID-19 at the time of filming the famous scene. Now, Ortega has visited Jimmy Fallon in his program and has explained new details about the famous scene that triumphs on Tik Tok and that he has recreated even Lady Gaga.
The singer accepted the challenge she received from the official Wednesday Addams Twitter account and, in addition to reinterpreting the star’s look, adapted the dance with her own song ‘Bloody Mary’.
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During her visit to the ‘Tonight show’, Jenna Ortega has shared new information about the dance that is causing a stir among the public. As she has explained, she “had read the scripts up to chapter 4 in which the dance takes place quite some time, but she assures that nothing was very defined”. In fact, It was even suggested that the dance be a group dance in the flashmob style, but it was later ruled out because it is something that does not fit with the lonely character of Wednesday Addams. She didn’t know what theme she would have to dance to just a week earlier when director Tim Burton settled on ‘Goo Goo Mucks’ by The Cramps. As Ortega has declared, he already had a lot of money there because he not only knew the band but it is one of his favorites and a regular on his playlist.
After that, and only two days before shooting the scene, Ortega tells how Burton approached her and told her that there would be no one to do the choreography and that he fully trusted her. With that pressure, according to her account, he spent as much time as he could looking for inspiration on the internet. And it is that between preparing to fencing or playing the cello, the actress had not stopped to think about dance steps. The result could not have been better, after being inspired by the original character of Wednesday and videos of Siouxsie Sioux, Bob Fosse’s Rich Man’s Frug, Lisa Loring, Lene Lovich, Denis Lavantamong others.