Jenna Ortega wishes Wednesday was dating her best friend Enid in Netflix show

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By Phoebe Egoroff

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Jenna Ortega has finally confirmed who she wants Wednesday Addams to end up with (spoiler alert: it's not Tyler or Xavier).

The 20-year-old actress - who portrays the titular character in Tim Burton's latest Netflix series Wednesday - seems to have spoken out about who she feels the gothic teen should end up with romantically.

Burton's series is a modern-day take on the fictional Addams family - an odd aristocratic family who are seemingly oblivious to others' disgust in their obsession with the macabre. The family - parents Gomez and Morticia, and children Wednesday and Pugsley - were first portrayed in The New Yorker in the 1930s. Then, in the 1960s the family sprung to life in a live-action television series.

Many current fans of the Addamses will have most likely seen them in the hit 90s films - The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993) - starring Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, and a young Christina Ricci.

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A young Christina Ricci starred as Wednesday Addams in the 90s. Credit: AJ Pics / Alamy

The latest Netflix series focuses solely on Wednesday, however, and explores her time as a student at a boarding school for misfits. Throughout the series, she attempts to harness her newfound psychic abilities and solve a decades-long murder mystery involving her parents.

The usually monotone teen slowly warms up to her fellow students, making friends along the way and seemingly becoming embroiled in a love triangle between Tyler, a kind barista, and Xavier, a strange outcast. As previously reported, Ortega has since spoken about how she originally had a hard time agreeing with the idea of a love triangle.

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Wednesday is caught in a love triangle throughout the series. Credit: FlixPix / Alamy

"I told [the scriptwriters] very early on that I didn't want her to be in the middle of a love triangle," Ortega stated in the interview. "I've always been against the love triangle idea. As far as the boys went, I had to accept it - but honestly, I'm going to fight this love triangle thing so hard. Because I don't think Wednesday would ever be in a love triangle."

Now, it seems the actress has revealed that she really hoped her character would become romantically involved with Enid, her roommate and best friend. Speaking to PRIDE, Ortega stated: "In a perfect world, we would have been a thing."

Emma Myers, who portrays Enid, then added: "I always say, 'And they were roommates.'"

When the interviewer suggested: "Opposites attract," Myers replied: "Yeah, exactly."

Fans on social media have also shipped the pair, with one person even tweeting: "The way enid is quite literally the only person that Wednesdaysday actively went out of her way for to not hurt her feelings is so [LGBT]."

What do you think? Are you shipping Wednesday and Enid?

Featured image credit: PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive / Alamy

Jenna Ortega wishes Wednesday was dating her best friend Enid in Netflix show

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By Phoebe Egoroff

Article saved!Article saved!

Jenna Ortega has finally confirmed who she wants Wednesday Addams to end up with (spoiler alert: it's not Tyler or Xavier).

The 20-year-old actress - who portrays the titular character in Tim Burton's latest Netflix series Wednesday - seems to have spoken out about who she feels the gothic teen should end up with romantically.

Burton's series is a modern-day take on the fictional Addams family - an odd aristocratic family who are seemingly oblivious to others' disgust in their obsession with the macabre. The family - parents Gomez and Morticia, and children Wednesday and Pugsley - were first portrayed in The New Yorker in the 1930s. Then, in the 1960s the family sprung to life in a live-action television series.

Many current fans of the Addamses will have most likely seen them in the hit 90s films - The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993) - starring Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, and a young Christina Ricci.

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A young Christina Ricci starred as Wednesday Addams in the 90s. Credit: AJ Pics / Alamy

The latest Netflix series focuses solely on Wednesday, however, and explores her time as a student at a boarding school for misfits. Throughout the series, she attempts to harness her newfound psychic abilities and solve a decades-long murder mystery involving her parents.

The usually monotone teen slowly warms up to her fellow students, making friends along the way and seemingly becoming embroiled in a love triangle between Tyler, a kind barista, and Xavier, a strange outcast. As previously reported, Ortega has since spoken about how she originally had a hard time agreeing with the idea of a love triangle.

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Wednesday is caught in a love triangle throughout the series. Credit: FlixPix / Alamy

"I told [the scriptwriters] very early on that I didn't want her to be in the middle of a love triangle," Ortega stated in the interview. "I've always been against the love triangle idea. As far as the boys went, I had to accept it - but honestly, I'm going to fight this love triangle thing so hard. Because I don't think Wednesday would ever be in a love triangle."

Now, it seems the actress has revealed that she really hoped her character would become romantically involved with Enid, her roommate and best friend. Speaking to PRIDE, Ortega stated: "In a perfect world, we would have been a thing."

Emma Myers, who portrays Enid, then added: "I always say, 'And they were roommates.'"

When the interviewer suggested: "Opposites attract," Myers replied: "Yeah, exactly."

Fans on social media have also shipped the pair, with one person even tweeting: "The way enid is quite literally the only person that Wednesdaysday actively went out of her way for to not hurt her feelings is so [LGBT]."

What do you think? Are you shipping Wednesday and Enid?

Featured image credit: PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive / Alamy