“Everyone’s wearing dresses as big as a table,” Jenna Ortega reports from the Wednesday set. The cast may be filming in Dublin, but a Venetian-inspired ball is underway in the second part of the show’s second season. (Included in that Italian influence? Steve Buscemi on a gondola.)

Wednesday. Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in Wednesday. Cr. Sophy Holland/Netflix © 2025 SOPHY HOLLAND/NETFLIX

Costume designers Mark Sutherland and Colleen Atwood had their work cut out for them planning an 18th-century Gothic masquerade gala. “We’d probably manufactured almost a thousand pieces of clothing for this scene,” Atwood says. Luckily, they can rely on around 100 people in their costume department, who cut, sew, dye, and age costumes in the show’s hangar-like workroom.

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