The animated film The Addams Family pulled in more than $30 million during its opening
weekend in October 2019.
As fun as the new film may be, we can't help but fall back in love with 1991's live-action
Addams Family — especially when the Halloween season rolls around.
Here's what the iconic cast looks like today.
Although Anjelica Huston was not the first or the last actress to play the role of Morticia
Addams, you may remember her performance most vividly.
She put a special twist on the character, after all.
In an interview with Vulture in May 2019, Huston revealed that she based her portrayal
of the character on her friend Jerry Hall — specifically the actress' quote, "sweet
indulgence of her children."
Huston explained,
"I just came upon the idea that the worse the children behaved, the more delighted Morticia
was.
I find Jerry incredibly beatific, she has that great accent and her children come before
anything.
I was trying to imagine Jerry bringing up the spawn of the devil, and how she'd still
be indulgent and loving and understanding."
"Now, what does this story teach us?"
Since the 1991 film, Huston has gone on to captivate audiences through her characters
in other films and television shows, such as her role as Vicki in Transparent and the
Director in John Wick: Chapter 3.
Sadly, her Addams Family husband, Raul Julia, passed away just a few years after the film's
premiere.
When interviewing Christopher Lloyd in 2017, Metro brought up ABC's star-studded Earth
Day Special that the actor filmed in 1990, but he was unable to recall the project, in
which he returned to his role as the iconic Doc Brown.
Lloyd admitted to the publication,
"I've done a lot of films I haven't heard about since wrap night.
But I don't care.
I have to work.
Unless it's total garbage, I'll work, whatever comes along.
The money might not be fabulous.
But I don't mind that."
However, The Addams Family is no Earth Day Special.
In an interview with Pop Goes the Culture, Lloyd revealed that he loved making the film,
adding,
"And it's such a great cast […] I mean, we were like a family after a while."
Lloyd also revealed that he was at first "at a loss" as to how to portray Uncle Fester,
because he's so physically different, but — obviously — he worked it out.
And the Back to the Future star has worked steadily ever since.
Christina Ricci has grown up, but Wednesday Addams will forever be the stoic, sadistic
daughter in The Addams Family.
She'll also, of course, remain the basis for Halloween costumes the world over.
Ricci was just 10 years old when she took on the dark role, but the part didn't appear
challenging for her.
Fame, however, was.
The actress told IndieWire,
"I had a very hard time with fame as a child, being interviewed and being asked about my
life.
I think that the way that I answered questions and the things I said earlier on were just,
it was like somebody twisting in the wind.
I was very reactive and aggressive and I acted out."
Despite a tumultuous relationship with fame, Ricci has remained in the entertainment business,
starring in a variety of projects big and small.
She's even started producing, telling IndieWire,
"I want to contribute to the world, I don't want to just take from it.
I want to do things that I'm proud of instead of being exploited, as I feel I was when I
was a child."
Jimmy Workman, who played Pugsley Addams in The Addams Family and its sequel Addams Family
Values, gave up acting in the early 2000s.
Cosmopolitan reported in September 2019 that he lives in California with his family, and
has worked behind the scenes on various projects.
Though he stopped acting, Workman's younger sibling, Ariel Winter, ventured into the biz.
Yep, the Modern Family star is Pugsley's younger sister.
"Oh what, you're too old for a little scare?"
"Scariest thing is, you could be a cheap pickup line, two beers, and nine months away from
being a grandparent, and you just risked asphyxiation in the fridge."
Tully Alford, The Addams Family's secondary antagonist, is played by character actor Dan
Hedaya.
Since starring in the '90s cult favorite, Hedaya appeared in a number of other projects,
including Clueless and Mulholland Drive.
In 2015, the actor appeared in a satirical segment about infrastructure on Last Week
Tonight with John Oliver — to name just one of his many recent credits.
"His memory must live on forever!"
During an interview at the 2016 Carney Awards, the actor was asked to divulge "the key" to
"being a good character actor."
He replied,
"I think creating a human being that's real, really.
And, you know, to say it in a cryptic way, to make somebody that has a heart and a soul
and is believable and real."
Since starring as Tully Alford's wife Margaret Alford in The Addams Family, Dana Ivey has
built an impressive acting career.
By 2016, in fact, she'd become a six-time Tony nominee.
In addition to keeping busy acting in big Hollywood movies, Ivey loves social media.
She explained to Theater Mania,
"I do a lot of theater stuff and a lot of environmental and animal stuff, so it's a
tripartite way of sending messages out […] It's just a way of getting the word out for something
I believe in."
Lurch may have been the Addams' butler, but he was every bit a part of the family.
And Carel Struycken was the perfect person for the role.
The Netherlands native was literally discovered on the street in the '70s, and he's made a
nice career playing a series of imposing characters.
Most people will, however, know him from his role in The Addams Family, and, yes, he really
is that tall.
According to the publication, he's one of the tallest movie stars around, at an even
seven feet tall.
When reminiscing about his role as the gangly butler in The Addams Family, he told Devolution,
"It has been a revelation to discover how many people identify with the Addams Family.
I guess people who have always felt a bit out of place in our society."
In the years since the movie premiered, Struycken has starred in several high-profile projects,
including 2017's Twin Peaks: The Return.
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