Catherine Zeta Jones and Luis Guzmán take on the roles of Morticia and Gomez Addams in the Netflix series with Jenna Ortega and Isaac Ordonez as their macabre children.
The Addams Family has taken many forms over the years from the 1960s era TV show and the big-budget 1990s movies to a 2010 Broadway musical and most recently two offbeat CG-animated features with each shape shifting to conform to or really deviate from the norms of the times. In the new Netflix series Wednesday, centered on the familys ominous only daughter the household of macabre bons vivants hews closer to the original design of cartoonist Charles Addams that first appeared in the pages of The New Yorker.Behold, Catherine Zeta-Jones as matriarch Morticia Luis Guzmán as paterfamilias Gomez Jenna Ortega as the eponymous Wednesday and Isaac Ordonez as hapless brother Pugsley.
For his first real foray into television Burton has brought along his longtime collaborator (and four-time Oscar winner Colleen Atwood as costume designer to give Morticia her signature vampire-chic look and Gomez his fancy-prisoner pinstripes. Wednesday, who views the world in stark black and white, only wears those same colors preferably with a razor-sharp collar. Disheveled Pugsley is the only casual one in the clan perpetually in short pants and horizontal stripes that look like an old-school TV dialed to dead air.
The show is the brainchild of Smallville creators Miles Millar and Alfred Gough who recruited Burton to bring his skewed sensibilities to the family of gothic outcasts. He wanted the silhouette to look more like the Charles Addams cartoons which is Gomez shorter than Morticia, versus the kind of suave Raul Julia version in the movies Gough says.He has also incredibly debonair and romantic and I think he has all those classic ingredients of the Gomez that has come before but he brings something also very different and new Millar adds. Thats something that was very important to the show that it did not feel like a remake or a reboot. Its something that lives within the Venn diagram of what happened before but its its own thing. Its not trying to be the movies or the 60s TV show. That was very important to us and very important to Tim.
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