Netflix Wednesday boss admits 'Ireland was frontrunner' for season 2 filming

A Netflix boss has revealed why Ireland quickly became the "frontrunner" for filming the second season of the hit drama.

Three years ago, the darkly humorous Netflix drama Nevermore Academy, centred around Wednesday Addams (portrayed by Jenna Ortega), took the world by storm.

Although the outcast boarding school is set in Vermont, the first season was actually filmed in Romania. However, when the second series was announced, the creators began searching for a new location.

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Speaking to Screen Time, award-winning production designer Mark Scruton said: "It was interesting because we spent a long time deciding where we were going to base ourselves for season two.

"We'd been here and there, a bit like season one, around different areas but Ireland was the frontrunner. I spent a long time scouting Ireland before we made the final choice.

"Myself and Karen [Richards], the producer, and the location scout spent around two weeks driving around, just getting a feel for the place and finding spaces and locations and elements we didn't even quite know if they were going to fit but we needed to find the vibe and understand how we can make the show work in Dublin, because we didn't know.

"Romania had given us a look that we had to follow through with, we couldn't just abandon that and do something different, which we found.

"And once we discovered various locations that we knew were going to do it and various places we knew were going to fit Vermont, we had to build a lot of the stuff that were locations before and to copy sets that had been built and long destroyed.

"So it was a very different lead in, into shooting. When we started shooting we were on a much bigger scale than the first time around."

Scruton then went on to openly discuss the mounting pressure facing the team following the triumph of the debut series.

He added: "First time around, no one really knew about the show and there was no buzz about it.

"We were quietly doing our thing in Romania and Tim [Burton] was very happy to be under the radar and dipping his toe into TV, because he hadn't really done that before.

"So that was all a bit of a voyage of discovery. This year it was sort of 100 miles per hour, we know what we're doing, the pressure's on and very quickly we had to realise we had to ignore that and do the show we wanted to make which in the end was great.

"It was definitely a very different process to get the end result and we were much bigger in scale this year which does put the pressure on hugely."

Wednesday has already been given the green light for a third series by Netflix, with supporters delighted that there will be more adventures from everyone at Nevermore Academy.

While the filming location remains uncertain, there's a high possibility that Wednesday could be returning to Ireland for its upcoming season.

Scruton commented: "All I know is we left a lot of things standing in Ireland so they're all still there so hopefully they won't get wasted."

Wednesday is available to watch on Netflix.