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Wednesday

, the series inspired by the characters from

, started with a bang on the big N platform, even surpassing the premiere of the fourth season of

, which surpassed the best forecasts.

But

in the fourth episode, titled

, led to a challenge for TikTok users, where everyone was willing to emulate it.

A user, who signs as Heyitsbessma, and who really looks a lot like the protagonist of the series produced by Tim Burton (also the director of four episodes), is about to reach 108 million views.

Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams.

"Those videos in which fans get into the role of Miércoles, dancing with precision, strength, and keeping a fixed, serious and extravagant gaze, are the ones that impressed me the most," says Pati Roca, dance teacher and director of the Barcelona school

.

She has also been "practicing the dance with my partner all weekend, and uploading videos to Instagram and TikTok. We discovered it while watching the series, before it went viral, and we immediately got into it. It's a very addictive dance In one day

I

."

Even Lady Gaga jumped on the bandwagon.

The fans of the singer who used to walk around with a steak on her head edited the video of Wednesday's dance, synchronizing it with her

, instead of the Cramps classic (Goo Goo Muck, 1981) that sounds in the series.

And

which, always to the sound of an accelerated remix of her 2011 hit, she appears characterizing herself as

, through braids and sinister makeup, to end up imitating her elusive dance, doing a little bigger a phenomenon that, somehow, takes us back to the times of

, when all the teenagers wanted to be bitten by Robert Pattinson.

It's a bit like the

they would have invented

.

Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams.

Times have changed, but adolescence is still a strange experience, and often on the dark side.

That is what the undaunted Ortega personifies perfectly.

The series created by Alfred Gough and Mike Millar based on the characters of Charles Addams reminds us that

to face the world , and at the same time overcome all that, shed the skin of the child and become an adult.

Jenna Ortega, who, at 20, would already be about to come out of the trance (although her 1.55 height seems to deny it) embodies the character played by Cristina Ricci in the 1991 film, or Lisa Loring in the 1960s series , but in

(her parents are Mexican and Puerto Rican), like Selena Gomez.

In the series, he

, though he also aspires to go to the classic high school dance, like

Stephen King and Brian DePalma 's

Her dress code is to wear white, although she wears all black, like Helena Bonham-Carter, as she befits a gothic diva.

Her sickly face did not need an excess of paling makeup, since she had just been diagnosed with Covid.

She, at least, was given complete freedom to compose her choreography for

the Cramps'

In a single but copious tweet, Ortega has recognized all the ingredients of his inspiration for dancing, without forgetting the aforementioned Lisa Loring, that diminutive Wednesday of the 60s, who taught the gigantic Ted Cassidy to dance.

The truth is that

.

Also on the thank you list are queens of the darkest

like Siouxie and Lene Lovich, who filled the floors of the '80s

with hits like

and

, respectively.

circulating on YouTube feed

on, such as the already classic homage to the

, by the Belgian band Trisomie 21.

could not be missing

, although not for

(1972), but for

, a musical number in three great movements that appears in a film starring Shirley McLaine,

(1962).

The

is one of the many dances that flourished in the prodigious decade of the 1960s, like

, of which it would be a derivative.

The long scene can be extended as a true sampler of the Fosse style, from which Ortega has inherited not a few tics.

Finally, he also cites the Frenchman

, but above all for that of

(1999), a classic by Claire Denis that culminates with the actor scoring a memorable

.

The film has just slipped into the

magazine

.

For Pati Roca, "it is true that Jenna has had many inspirations, some steps even reminded me of Michael Jackson's

, but it is also noticeable that there is a wide margin for improvisation, a bit in the style of what we call musical jazz, a Visual, fun dance, in which the arms are used a lot. Although in a more contemporary version, since they are movements that express many emotions. I think that the secret of its success is the combination of

. In the end there are four steps, simple movements, like partying, but he has managed to give them a lot of personality and expressiveness".

It is clear that Ortega's dance will go down in history as the most memorable of the series, perhaps because it

, from adolescent

to the absurdity of a movie like

(2009), by Yorgos Lanthimos.

It is not known if Jenny Ortega has had the opportunity to see it, but we are sure that she would love it.

Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams.

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