The Netflix hit Wednesday is full of great, often bizarrely morbid scenes. Anyone who sees the series in the German version will have missed a particularly bizarre scene. There, the young Addams daughter (Jenna Ortega) disturbs tourists with candy. However, it is only noticeable in the original that the star actually spoke German in the scene.
Wednesday star Jenna Ortega had to learn German in a week for the Netflix hit
The scene is from Episode 3. There, in the costume of American pilgrims, Wednesday receives a group of German vacationers and offers them candy from a morally questionable source. Ortega’s German speech in the original reads:
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Enjoy your authentic Pilgrim fudge [Karamell] […] by the oppressed indigenous people of the Amazon. All proceeds go towards this pathetic whitewashing of American history. By the way, caramel wasn’t invented until 258 years later. Is someone interested?
International viewers are already paying respect to Ortega for actually holding her monologue in German. When asked about it in an interview with the Filipino site When in Manila, the actress is quite embarrassed. You only had a week to learn the language she emphasizes.
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What do you think of Ortega’s German scene?