Wednesday bosses had to ask someone to return a prop that had been taken from the set of the hit Netflix show, as they didn’t believe another series was on the cards
A Wednesday boss had to ask someone to return an item taken from the set.
The spooky Netflix hit has just returned with the final episodes of its hotly-anticipated second season. The four remaining episodes (Part 2) were released on Wednesday (September 3), a few weeks after Part 1 left us on that (very) dramatic cliffhanger.
But it seems some stars were keen to take home some souvenirs from the supernatural show. A Wednesday boss had to “politely ask” someone to return a prop they had taken from set after they wrapped season one.
Production designer Mark Scruton told Screen Time: “We had a prop from season one, I’m trying to remember what it is now. But we had to politely ask for it to be returned for season two because we didn’t think we were doing season two.”
Despite it going on to be a huge success, people working on the show didn’t know it’d get another series at first. A few months later, they found out they’d been commissioned for a second season.
Scurton also revealed Catherine Zeta-Jones loved the set. He went on: “I know certainly Catherine [Zeta-Jones] was very happy with her environment, in the cottage we built for Morticia.
“I don’t think anyone took anything away that I know about, occasionally we might have made duplicates of things on request.” He added: “But everyone’s fully aware that if they come back next year and there’s a big hole missing where a key prop was [we’ll know].”
It was November 2022 when the first season came out and it wasn’t clear if there would be more to come until a few months later. However, we already know Netflix has already given director Tim Burton the green light to make a third season.
Filming for series one took place in Romania, and the second season was shot in Ireland. It’s not yet known if production is going to return to Ireland but Scruton did say: “All I know is we left a lot of things standing in Ireland so they’re all still there so hopefully they won’t get wasted.”
There has been no confirmation on an official return date for series three just yet, although it’s been reported that production is set to begin in spring 2026. The second series took three years to make, due to industry-wide disruptions.
The most significant was the 2023 Writer’s Guild strike (Writers Guild of America) in Hollywood, which halted progress on a number of US film and TV series – including Wednesday. Alongside the SAG strike (Screen Actors Guild), these strikes contributed to the largest interruption to the US film and TV industry since the Covid pandemic.
The writers’ strike lasted from May until September 2023, so writing on Wednesday was delayed for at least four months. This, of course, pushed shooting back as studios don’t tend to film without a script – and filming for the second series of Wednesday didn’t begin until May 2024.
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