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There are few sequels that are better than the originals – but surely Addams Family Values falls into that category.
The 1993 comedy has become a Halloween classic, thank you to its endlessly quotable script, Morticia and Midweek'south contribution to goth glamour, and the campness provided by Joan Cusack as villain Debbie Jellinsky.
Here are 11 things you may not know about Addams Family Values to get yous in the Halloween spirit.
Christopher Lloyd had to bend his knees at all times to appear shorter than he is
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Lloyd played the eccentric Fester Addams in the movie, but at 6'1, he was simply an inch shorter than his on-screen blood brother Gomez, played by the late Raúl Juliá, and taller than both Angelica Huston, who played Morticia, and Joan Cusack, who played his villainous dear interest Debbie Jellinksy.
However, there was no figurer trickery used to shrink Lloyd down into the brusk, squat Fester we all know and love. He revealed, "I ever had my knees aptitude to make me look shorter and more squat. Information technology worked out well because it gave me kind of a funny walk."
Lloyd also shaved his head to play Fester, something he had no trouble with.
Marisa Tomei was considered for the office of Debbie Jellinsky…
Joan Cusack plays the murderous bombshell Debbie Jellinsky, who plans to seduce Fester and so kill him on their wedding nighttime.
Only while Cusack made the office her own ("And exercise you know what they got me? Mal-i-bu Bar-bie!"), Oscar winner Marisa Tomei had previously been considered for the role earlier it went to her.
…. And Cher nearly played Morticia
It's hard to imagine anybody else playing Morticia, but we could have had another raven-haired star as the glamorous dame.
Manager Barry Sonnenfeld said, "Scott [Rudin, the producer] and I both agreed on Anjelica Huston and Raúl Juliá as Morticia and Gomez. The studio wanted Cher but we felt that would unbalance the film – nosotros didn't desire information technology to be about stars."
Carol Kane, who played Grandmama, is younger than her on-screen daughter
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt star Kane was born on June 18, 1952, while Angelica Huston – who played her daughter – was xi months older, born on July 8, 1951.
The actresses had actually been close friends since they were xix years old, and Kane had previously starred aslope Christopher Lloyd in Taxi.
She replaced Judith Malina, now 88, who played Grandmama in the first Addams Family film, and was offered the part without an audience.
Mercedes McNab is really in the first Addams Family as an unrelated character
McNab plays the snooty Amanda Buckman at Camp Chippewa, just she had already faced off confronting Wednesday and Pugsley in the original film The Addams Family every bit an unrelated but equally snooty character.
In the 1991 moving picture, McNab played a girl lookout man who happens across the Addams' siblings lemonade stand, and demands to know if their drink is "made from real lemons" because she simply likes "all natural fruits and beverages, organically grown with no preservatives" (via Buzzfeed). In fairness to the daughter scout, she was correct to be suspicious – there were bottles of cyanide and poison adjacent to the lemons on their stand up.
Despite having already acted in the Addams Family universe, McNab had to audition for the function of Amanda, but patently won the casting directors over yet again.
Speaking of Amanda, test audiences idea that Wednesday killed her past burning her at the stake
Afterward Midweek, playing Pocahontas, flips the script in the camp musical to wage war on the pilgrims, Amanda is tied to a pale with an apple tree shoved in her mouth.
Wednesday (Christina Ricci) lights a match equally the Addams Family theme begins, with Amanda screaming her heart out – which is where the scene cuts away from camp. And this ending left some test audiences thinking that Wednesday had actually murdered her rival past burning her at the pale.
"They didn't want kids watching the picture to call back that because that obviously doesn't really look also good for them to be out there killing off children, no matter how awful the kid is," McNab said.
"So they had to throw in that quick footling shot of Amanda and her family on the plane ride home, merely to convince the audiences that Amanda did survive and it was all in good fun."
In the finale, when baby Pubert saves the Addams from electrocution by Debbie, the baby is catapulted into the sky by a bowling ball, and he passes an airplane window, where a shellshocked Amanda and her parents can be seen.
So don't worry, Wednesday didn't murder her campmate in a gruesome mode.
And the lake Amanda 'drowns' in was heated
Wednesday and Amanda are paired upward as lifesaver and victim, but in classic Wednesday behaviour, she waits until her enemy has gone underneath the water before telling the camp counsellors that she cannot swim.
While drowning in a lake at the whim of a gothic rival may not sound too glamorous, the crew actually heated the h2o for McNab so she wouldn't become too cold.
McNab said, "When nosotros shot the scene where I had to leap in the lake, it was freezing that day. And I remember it was very fancy because they heated the lake for me, which I didn't know they could do.
"I've washed many movies since where they certainly did not heat anything, let lonely a lake. But they heated part of the lake upward for me and so that was very exciting."
The 'Eat Me' turkey song had a starry choreographer
Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) gets a starring role in the summer camp Thanksgiving musical, every bit a turkey who asks the audience "eat me".
The number was choreographed by Adam Shankman, who went on to choreograph the Footstep Upward franchise and the 2007 remake of Hairspray, too every bit the iconic Once again, With Feeling episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer (and he was then close to Sarah Michelle Gellar that he officiated her wedding to Freddie Prinze Jr).
Shankman will exist stepping his toes back into Halloween movies every bit he is set to directly Disney+'due south Hocus Pocus reboot.
Morticia and Gomez's iconic tango has a very familiar soundtrack
One of the sexiest goth numbers in film, Morticia and Gomez's passion is laid blank in their brilliant tango scene while on a double date with Debbie and Fester.
And if you mind closely, you'll note that the couple are actually dancing to an arrangement of the original Addams Family theme.
The legendary theme for the campy 1960s testify was written and performed by the tardily Vic Mizzy, who died in 2009 anile 93.
Infant Pubert was played by twin girls
Footling Pubert was the spitting paradigm of his father, with blackness hair and a pencil moustache to kick. Only the second Addams boy wasn't a boy at all, and was played by twins Kaitlyn and Kristen Hooper.
The twin infants weren't even one when they starred as Pubert, and went on to star as Tim Taylor's twin nieces Dwelling Improvement. Notwithstanding, the Hoopers have since left interim, both went to higher and are now 28 years one-time.
Cousin Itt'south wig weighed 35 pounds
Actor John Franklin had quite an arduous task playing Cousin Itt. The actor – who is five foot alpine due to a growth hormone deficiency – revealed that the flooring-length wig he wore to play Cousin Itt weighed 35 pounds, while he weighed only 100 pounds himself.
To go along him comfortable, he had to wear a neck brace and a hoop skirt with a fan attached, just for Addams Family Values, the wig got a flake of a haircut, beingness made lighter by about 10 pounds.
Ironically, Franklin was allergic to hairspray, and then the coiffure had to apply an oil-based spray to continue the tangles out of Cousin Itt's 'do.
Addams Family Values is available to watch on Netflix, along with The Addams Family unit and the 2019 blitheness.
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