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Thanks to Vanity Fair, we have our first look at Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester in Tim Burton‘s “The Addams Family” series for Netflix, “Wednesday.” The “Saturday Night Live” alum joins series star Jenna Ortega in the series, which centers on the eldest daughter of Gomez (Luiz Guzmán) and Mortitia (Catherine Zeta Jones).
“He’s someone on the run, but he has a strong link to the family and to Wednesday. They have a really good time together, and they help each other,” Armisen told Vanity Fair. “It’s a real family thing, but they’re friends as well.”
“I wasn’t thinking in terms of what I can bring to it to make it different. I thought, No, I want the Jackie Coogan version. That’s the version I can hear. Christopher Lloyd’s is amazing too. I wanted to just keep it there,” Armisen said. “ I didn’t have any designs on, ‘Well, now I’m going to add this element….’ No, this is someone who likes wearing those big coats, and is enjoying his own eccentricities.”
Why this series, though? “one of the main reasons to go all the way to Romania, to get to meet Tim Burton and hang out with him,” Armisen admits. “He’s a huge part of my life. I think he’s a huge part of everybody’s life, the way that he’s made that aesthetic really part of the mainstream.”
“Wednesday” will hit Netflix on November 23rd, 2022.
