We went behind the scenes to find out who played 'Thing' in WednesdayNetflix, why this version has scars, and everything else you need know about the Addams family sidekick 🖤
. "Is Thing real in Wednesday?" "Who Plays Thing in Wednesday?" and "How Did They Film Thing?" have all become top Google searches since the show aired. The character has single-handedly gotten people emotional over an appendage.movies were shot, Thing is portrayed by an actor — not an animatronic, and not CGI, which many assumed was used for the show.
"One of the first conversations I had with Tim [Burton, the show’s executive producer] was about Thing," Emmy Award-winning prosthetic designer. "The design started from that point. Thing was in every episode; it was a key character that was with Wednesday a lot. And we needed to figure out how to bring it back to life."
While the 2022 series doesn't explicitly answer any questions about Thing's backstory the design arguably gives the character more, well, character than the versions from the original films and series, which present it as a. Versluis started with concept art to get an idea of the direction Burton wanted to go with the moving mitt.
"That lead us quite quickly into this version with the stitches and the Frankenstein type of look, with the scars, to get the history and character to the hand," said Versluis. "I jumped straight in and actually did a test on myself; I sculpted a stump and did a video and sent it to the producers and Tim. Luckily, they reacted very well straightaway. We started playing around doing the sculptures, and it just flowed from there.
The final design of Thing — dirty, cut up, and stitched together — was Burton's ultimate vision. "[Tim] did a sketch. We had an artist do sketches, but he gravitated towards a little sketch that he did with the stitches," said Versluis. "A lot of that comes from his imagination and his influence. We played with it — on the top of the stump, we put a couple of crosses, like stitches that crossed almost to try and make eyes at one point, but that was too much.
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