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Megan Behnke

That Time A Young Jenna Ortega Outed Herself As A Great Candidate For Wednesday Addams When She Was Still In Her Disney Fame Years

Jenna Ortega looking at the camera in Stuck in the Middle.

The long-awaited second season of Wednesday is finally available to stream in full with a Netflix subscription following the release of Part 2 earlier this month. Jenna Ortega killed it, of course, as the titular Wednesday Addams, which wasn’t surprising since she gave it her all during Season 1, even if she wanted to pull her hair out at times. It also shouldn’t be so surprising that she’s been nailing the role, because during her Disney Channel days, she outed herself as a great candidate for the Addams Family character.

Before making her mark on Wednesday and in the Scream franchise, Ortega was starring on the Disney Channel series Stuck in the Middle. From 2016 to 2018, she portrayed Harley Diaz, a genius inventor with six siblings, and as the title suggests, she was literally stuck in the middle as the fourth child. To celebrate the release of Wednesday Season 2, Disney Channel made sure to remind Instagram followers that Ortega was certainly the perfect candidate because of one particular line from the very first episode of Stuck in the Middle:

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