SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for the entirety of Netflix‘s Wednesday Season 2 Part 2.
Wednesday Season 2 Part 2 flipped quite a few relationships around, including the ever-present bond between Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) and her werewolf roomie Enid (Emma Myers), as well as the dynamic between each of them with Evie Templeton’s Agnes.
The finale led Enid to “sacrifice her humanity, literally,” said co-creator Miles Millar in a recent interview with Deadline, to dig up Wednesday after Isaac Night (Owen Painter) buried her alive. Enid, who Billie Piper’s Isadora Capri has warned that she might be an Alpha werewolf, chooses to transform under the full moon, knowing that she may not be able to change back and, as a result, get hunted down by other werewolves. Myers found out about this big cliffhanger about a week before shooting the finale.
“I was really shocked, but I also think it makes a lot of sense for Enid,” Myers told Deadline post-launch. “She’s very self-sacrificial. She would do anything to save the people that she loves. So it makes sense, and it shows her true character and her true heart and her nature, and I’m glad that she’s the one that gets to make that sacrifice.”
Millar and co-creator Alfred Gough remained tight-lipped about whether there would be a cure for Enid’s situation in Season 3.
“Ultimately, the crucible of their friendship is tested when Enid chooses to sacrifice her humanity, literally to save her friend Wednesday, which is really the climactic moment of the season’s heart, and then it’s a big question mark,” Millar said.
This reversed the girls’ roles from the beginning of the season, when Wednesday was doing everything she could to prevent her premonition of Enid’s death from coming true.
“That relationship between Enid and Wednesday is really the heart of the show. This season, it’s really about Wednesday navigating what it means to have a friend,” Millar shared. “Last season, she got a friend, who was Enid, and this season is about her learning what that means and how to navigate something she’s never done before. You have the Agnes situation as well in there, and Enid feels somewhat betrayed by Wednesday’s loyalty to Agnes. Agnes is obviously twisting the knife in there, and then Enid’s got her own relationship trouble,” he added.
L to R: Emma Myers as Enid, Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in ‘Wednesday’ Season 2
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Episode 6’s body swap situation, brought about by Lady Gaga’s Rosaline Rotwood, catalyzes Enid and Wednesday’s ”coming back together” after being “in conflict” over Agnes. Myers’ advice was for Ortega to act like Enid was “move around as much as possible,” and Ortega told Myers to “be as still as possible.”
“[It was] terrifying. I think we both hated every second of it because it’s also uncomfortable doing it in front of each other. It’s so unnerving, but we both sat each other down and we were like, ‘Tell me if I’m doing a bad job because I will tell you if you’re doing a bad job,” Myers remarked. “’Let’s make this work,’ but we didn’t find out we were doing it until a month before, so we didn’t really get any rehearsal time. I think we did the best with what time we had.”
Enid and Agnes also saw more eye to eye by Season 2’s penultimate and finale episodes. At the gala that Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones), Bianca (Joy Sunday), and Principal Dort (Steve Buscemi) have painstakingly planned, Agnes volunteers to dance with Enid during her solo because she’s spied on Enid while invisible and knows all the moves. The routine is set to Lady Gaga’s “The Dead Dance,” which the singer wrote specifically for Season 2.
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“It felt like it was tailor-made for the show in terms of the lyrics. We knew we had this gala and this moment between Enid and Agnes when they come together, after having been frenemies throughout the season, and it just felt like the perfect moment,” Millar said. “Agnes is a pretty extreme character. We love the idea of them coming together, and the dance felt like the obvious place to do that, because both actresses are amazing dancers in their own right. It felt natural. [That] moment of friendship and alliance was significant for them as characters. We thought it was important to honor the idea of a dance in the show. To have a season without a dance would be odd, but we never want to repeat ourselves.”
Myers and Templeton weren’t allowed to film their dance with the song playing, so they used a click track, a similar song to maintain the same beats per minute, allowing the music to be overlaid in the final edit.
“We got to hear it a few times before we started choreographing the dance. It was tricky because lyrics and music influence so much of choreography that you want to make sure that when you change the song over top of it, that it still fits,” Myers said. “I haven’t seen the final product because I’m really nervous to watch it, but I know Evie has.”
Emma Myers as Enid in ‘Wednesday’ Season 2
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Templeton is satisfied with how the choreography turned out.
“It looks cool. You look really good,” Templeton shared in the same interview with her costar. “I love the creature of the night part. I think that that’s so cool, the looks that we have at each other.”
Though Enid encouraged Agnes to be herself after she donned a black braided pigtail wig just like Wednesday’s hair, and Wednesday snapped at her, the invisible outcast still has a way to go with her independence, as seen by the list of boyfriends she willingly draws up for Enid after the whole Bruno (Noah B. Taylor) debacle.
“I don’t think it’s a quick turning point. I think there’s a lot of character development and a lot of thinking that she needs to do to break out of Wednesday’s shadow because I think she’s been trying to be somebody who she’s not for a long time,” Templeton noted. “She still has her guard up, in a way. She’s still not fully being herself yet. That would be something that would be really interesting to continue exploring with the following [season] for sure.”
Evie Templeton as Agnes in ‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Part 2
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Viewers also met Agnes’ father as Nevermore students packed up and went home for the school break. The moment illuminated Templeton’s character.
“I remember reading that in the script and thinking it definitely explains a lot. It explains why she was so desperate to become friends with Wednesday and to get her attention, and why there was so much rivalry between her and Enid,” shared the Season 2 newbie. “And the extremes that she took to try and impress her idol were pretty intense, but I think that we now understand that was probably because of her family situation and the fact that her dad is a businessman and doesn’t really have the time of day for her, and obviously her mum has got her new normal family.”
Both Templeton and the creators, Gough and Millar, are open to exploring Agnes’ father and family relationships further.
“You probably feel one way about Agnes when you first meet her, and then by the end of the season, you get some insight into her and how she feels invisible,” Alfred Gough said. “That scene in the Sum of Their Parts meeting was a very crucial one for her. It’s a character that people seem to be gravitating towards. So that’s always great.”
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