The best of Wednesday turned forty-five today

Perhaps not all viewers noticed that in the popular series "Wednesday" a kind of generational relay race took place - after all, the botany teacher at Nevermore School, who at first seems to be the only friend of the main character (Jenna Ortega at 20 still seems like a teenager), is played by Christina Ricci, Wednesday from two comedy masterpieces about the Addams Family directed by Barry Sonnenfeld in 1991 and 1993.

It is hardly worth figuring out "which Wednesday" is better, since the heroine of actress Jenna Ortega is older than the heroine of Christina Ricci, who played her most famous role at 10, and then at 12 years old. Unlike many actors and actresses who became famous at this age (let's remember Macaulay Culkin) and then sank into obscurity, Ricci continued to play and plays a lot and with taste, as evidenced by her nominations for the Golden Globe, Emmy and the Screen Actors Guild of America award.

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Often her roles "fall out" from the usual Hollywood standards. Although it would be more accurate to say otherwise - if a female role "falls out" from the usual Hollywood standards, then among the candidates for it is Christina Ricci. One example - at 17, she played one of the heroines of Ang Lee's drama "The Ice Storm", and at first she was supposed to be played by 16-year-old Natalie Portman, who became famous after "Leon the Killer", but Portman's parents considered the role "too provocative".

An interesting detail - Ricci's career as an actress began at the age of eight, when a local theater critic noticed her in a school play and wrote about her. But she didn't get this role just like that - at first, as in the case of Portman, another girl was supposed to play her. Eight-year-old Christina began to mock her in order to provoke her into a fight, and then complained that she was hit - and her rival was excluded from the play. Later, Ricci said about this incident that she had always been very ambitious and here this part of her nature manifested itself in the ugliest way.

But there was already something of Wednesday in this cunning, not at all childish in conception and execution...

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