Talk with regards to’concerning’with respect to stepping into someone’s shoes. With Wednesday Addams, you don’t even just acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure shoes – you also acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure some of the most iconic pitch-black pigtails in the business, a deadly scowl, and an acid-sharp wit to boot. While there possess’own’nurse been multiple incarnations of The Addams Family over the years, the ‘90s films by Barry Sonnenfeld – The Addams Family and Addams Family Values – are peculiar ly fondly-remembered, with Christina Ricci perfectly inhabiting Morticia and Gomez’s deadpan daughter. It was daunting abundant’ample’plentiful , then, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Scream and Ti West's X star Jenna Ortega to take on the role in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Tim Burton’s upcoming Netflix series Wednesday – and even more so when Ricci herself joined the cast of the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue , in an undisclosed role.###For Ortega, it was a lot to take. “I felt like I was genuinely having a panic attack when I was told,” she tells Empire in the new Black Panther: Wakanda Forever issue. “I was terrified. She’s a really cool lady. I was fine meeting her, but the first time we did a scene toacquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure her and she had to see me done up the way she was done up 30 years ago, it was nerve-racking.” It was peculiar ly scary because of how, well, scarily-rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent Ricci’s Wednesday Addams was. “It’s really significant’essential’critical’vital’crucial’indispensable’imperative to me that I wasn’t ripping anyone off,” says Ortega. “Christina Ricci’s perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mance is flawlessly done. It’s pitch-perfect and I wouldn’t transform’alter anything with regards to’concerning’with respect to it, which is another reason it was hard in/with regard to’concerning’regarding me to do this job.”###Instead of retreading old ground, Wednesday – created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, with Burton directing four of its eight episodes – moves things in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ward and picks up a few years down the line from where Ricci would theoretically possess’own’nurse left off. “We’ve never seen Wednesday as a teenage girl,” reasons Ortega – an evolution which brings its own challenges. “When you acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure older and you say these sarcastic, bitchy one-liners, it can come off less charming and more rude or obnoxious. That was something I was really wary of.” Still, from eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullything we’ve seen so far, it looks like Wednesday could be a creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky treat.###Read Empire’s full Wednesday feature in the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever issue – on sale Thursday 29 September, and available to order online here. Wednesday hits Netflix on 23 November.