Jenna Ortega explains how she came up with viral \u2018Wednesday\u2019 dance NETFLIXJenna Ortega explained how she came up with her iconic \u2018Wednesday\u2019 dance, which has become a viral trend on TikTok and across social media. The 20-year-old actress, who plays Wednesday Addams in Netflix\u2019s new \u2018Addams Family\u2019 spinoff series, went on \u2018The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon\u2018 to discuss how the choreography came to be. \u201cInitially, they wanted a flash mob, but I thought, no, there\u2019s no way Wednesday would be cool with dancing and encouraging a bunch of people,\u201d Jenna said. \u201cThe director, Tim Burton, and I talked about it a little bit, and he said, \u2018Yeah, let\u2019s not do a circle. Let\u2019s have it be her own thing.’\u201d She continued: \u201cA week before we shot the dance, he chose the song \u2018Goo Goo Muck\u2019 by The Cramps. And The Cramps is one of my favorite bands ever, so I was super excited, super pumped.\u201d Ortega said she wanted to choreograph the dance herself, and was given two days to do so. \u201c[Burton] was like, \u2018I know you\u2019ve got it. You\u2019ve been working on it. I\u2019m not even worried about it. I trust you.\u2019 And I said, \u2018Oh, yeah, you know, it\u2019s all so good.’\u201d Jenna Ortega choreographed \u2018Wednesday\u2019 dance in two days According to the 20-year-old, there was only one problem. \u201cI had not gone over it at all,\u201d she confessed. \u201cOh, my God. I was kicking myself. I felt like such a fool. I\u2019m not a dancer. I don\u2019t do any of that. I have no experience in that field. I didn\u2019t sleep for two days.\u201d To prepare for the dance, Ortega watched videos of rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees, rock singers Lene Lovich and Nina Hagen, footage of \u201cgoth kids dancing in clubs in the 80s\u201d and of Denis Lavant in the 1999 movie \u2018Beau Travail.\u2019 She also revealed that she wanted to incorporate certain things in her dance, including a small tribute to Lisa Loring \u2014 who originated the onscreen role of Wednesday Addams \u2014 within the dance. The \u2018Wednesday\u2019 dance has since gone viral on TikTok, with users recreating the iconic routine using Lady Gaga\u2019s \u2018Bloody Mary,\u2019 instead of the song featured in the scene. Gaga herself has stunned fans by participating in the trend. The actress said Netflix officials told her that her dance was \u201cgonna be a thing on TikTok,\u201d she added. \u201cAnd then they were right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jenna Ortega explains how she came up with viral \u2018Wednesday\u2019 dance NETFLIXJenna Ortega explained how she came up with her iconic \u2018Wednesday\u2019 dance, which has become a viral trend on TikTok and across social media. The 20-year-old actress, who plays Wednesday Addams in Netflix\u2019s new \u2018Addams Family\u2019 spinoff series, went on \u2018The Tonight Show with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}