PS: Are there any behind-the-scenes secrets you can share, be it a silent tribute in costume, a look that never was, or something that was added last minute?
MS: I think for Wednesday [. . .], her school duffel coat is an iconic look for her because it's so different from everybody else's. We really wanted to try and find something that had a vintage feel about it and a different shape. And then her backpack we had made because obviously we have Thing in the backpack. A lot of things we [created] made it to the movie, especially for the Addams family and for Pugsley.
With Pugsley, it was interesting to knit his jumper, because if you see Pugsley, it's these straight lines, but we wanted to diffuse [it] so that when you see him and his silhouette, it gives him more of a distorted shape. And Gomez goes through a few things in the movie, like the prison, so it was really great to make stuff for him, too.
To me, when I see the Poe Cup, it just made everything so worthwhile. Because we went through different stages of a process for each group. With a lot of discussions with Tim [Burton] and Colleen [Atwood], we had to look into all of the Edgar Allan Poe books for each character and pull out different things that we could add to their costumes like the Black Cats, the cat costumes, and the Jokers.
