STACK #210 Apr 2022

MOVIE FEATURE

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DID YOU KNOW? • The family’s first animated appearance was in 1972, guest starring in the third episode of The New Scooby- Doo Movies, Wednesday is Missing .

• The Addams Family 2 is out on Apr 6

pretty fun sights, and we get to see a whole lot of Cousin It, who is a fan favourite from the first one.” One of the fun things in The Addams Family 2 is Wednesday’s relationship with little brother Pugsley; she's constantly devising new ways to kill him. “I think my favourite scene is the Niagara Falls sequence with the voodoo doll,” laughs Moretz. “It’s just so funny. There’s something about the voodoo doll gag that always gets me. And the scene in the RV when she’s wrenching Pugsley and he’s screaming to his mom and Morticia is completely ignoring him.

• The 1973 animated sitcom series featured an 11-year-old Jodie Foster as the voice of Pugsley. live-action movie spawned a new animated series the following year, which ran for two seasons. • The success of the 1991

When the all-star voice cast of the 2019 animated film The Addams Family reunited for a spooky road trip sequel, Chloë Grace Moretz didn’t need to look any further than her own family to get into the spirit of The Addams Family 2 . Words Gill Pringle “W e loved going on road trips all the time,” recalls Chloë Grace Moretz, who Cousin It

“I can’t say that if I had a voodoo doll that I wouldn’t use it on my brothers,” she teases. Since their debut appearance in 1938 as a single-panel cartoon in The NewYorker , the Addams clan has spawned comic books, a popular TV sitcom, a musical, video games and two live-action films. Ask Moretz if she has any theories on the spooky family’s longevity and she’s clearly given it some thought. “I think the thing about them that audiences have always fallen in love with is the fact that this is a family that is so protective of one another. Their family bond is so intense that nothing can really break them. They can be whoever they want to be, they can be kooky, they can be weird, and it’s unabashed; the family support them no matter what. “And with them being on the darker, creepier and more macabre side of life, it allows people to be welcomed into that world without feeling scared. Because at the end of the day, it’s just funny and there is so much satire involved. “But I do think that it’s the

reprises her role of Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family 2 . “Growing up in Georgia, we were constantly driving to Florida because it was the closest beaches. We took so many family road trips down to Key West.” In The Addams Family 2 – starring Charlize Theron as Morticia, Oscar Isaac as Gomez, Javon Walton as Pugsley and Snoop Dogg as Cousin It – we find Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with “scream time.” To reclaim their bond, the clan decide to cramWednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester and the crew into their haunted camper and hit the road for one last miserable family vacation. Their adventure across America takes them out of their element and into hilarious run-ins with their iconic Cousin It, as well as many new kooky characters. “I think it’s really nice to be able to go on this road trip with the Addams family,” says Moretz. “I think we get to see so much more of the characters now that we already know them and have met them. We really get to see them interact on a personal level in a very cinematic way. “It really felt like a full film with intense

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storylines – and some heavy subject matter with a family. It also deals with growing up and some of those coming-of-age storylines, and they navigate it in a really wonderful way. I think people will enjoy going on this discovery and this road trip with them. There’s some

family bond that has allowed it to stand the test of time. Everyone has felt a little odd at some time, so I think it’s a place that you can go to be odd and not feel like you are being ostracised for it.”

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