‘Wednesday’ Star Evie Templeton on Agnes’ Development From Stalker to Good friend

Throughout a chat on the official Wednesday podcast—or relatively, woecast—Nevermore newcomer Evie Templeton mentioned Agnes coming into her personal after being an unhinged stalker fan of Netflix’s favourite Addams.

After Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) lays into her on the finish of the second season of the Tim Burton present, seemingly to push her to be herself within the meanest approach potential, Agnes will get gutted emotionally in a approach that would have been a villain origin however goes in a surprisingly optimistic route.

“I feel the vital message on this episode is that it’s okay to face out and it’s okay to be your self and being your self is the perfect model of your self that you would be able to be, it’s okay to face in your individuality,” she mentioned of the second Wednesday stopped the pick-me vitality useless in its tracks. “I feel it’s only a second of pure devastation. I imply, all of her efforts have actually led to nothing and she or he’s tried so laborious and put a lot into this that it’s actually only a second of pure heartbreak; to be informed by her idol that she’s failed and that she’s not adequate is absolutely heart-wrenching for her.”

She famous, “I feel it additionally acts as fairly a pivotal second as a result of after this she type of embraces her personal individuality and she or he breaks out of her braids”—that means the copycat coiffure that made her look extra like Wendy’s mascot than her idol.

Templeton’s hopes for Wednesday’s stalker-turned-crime-solving associate lie in her changing into mates with Enid (Emma Myers) as an alternative of seeing her as competitors. “Properly, I feel they’ve so much in frequent. They each admire Wednesday a lot, and I feel they’ll each additionally acknowledge that beneath Wednesday’s stern, stony exterior that she has a number of compassion inside, and she or he’s a really loyal buddy.”

The brand new friendship will get solidified with their showstopping efficiency to Girl Gaga’s “The Useless Dance” on the gala.

“I feel it’s within the second the place she’s clearly in her lovely inexperienced costume, and she or he’s obtained her new coiffure, that she type of realizes that [Enid’s] be-your-own-psycho recommendation has actually impacted her in the easiest way potential, and I feel that’s a extremely vital message, particularly for my era, to not really feel like you must conform, and to grasp that you would be able to escape of the mildew and be your self, and to not really feel pressured into being what everybody else thinks try to be.”

Templeton continued to sing her dance associate’s praises, which is a superb place for an Enid and Agnes team-up to start out. “Emma is the sweetest woman. She’s so, so good. I imply, now we have so much in frequent, which was nice. That [Gaga dance sequence] was one thing that type of linked us from the start.”

She hopes it solidifies Agnes’ place within the buddy group as their invisibility-powered associate in thriller fixing. “I actually need to see that trio dynamic. I’d wish to see how that progresses, just like the Three Musketeers.”

Wednesday season two is now streaming on Netflix.

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