It’s enough to put a smile on the face of any goth teenager… Wednesday Addams in the Garden of Ireland.
Whoever persuaded the world’s sassiest adolescent to exchange Creepy Towers for verdant Wicklow deserves a pay rise.
The second series of Wednesday, the Addams Family spin-off, drops on Netflix today.
And Wicklow film and TV fans, long used to seeing movie stars in their midst, have been spotting Jenna Ortega out and about.
At my old go-to afternoon out for tourist visitors, Powerscourt Demesne in Enniskerry.
Wednesday’s words
Jenna let her Wednesday mask slip when stopped and asked about her Wicklow getaway.
‘My favourite thing is just how kind the people were.’
While Daddy Gomez was equally effusive, saying: ‘The landscape here is sensational, so beautiful, so nostalgic.’
And to view them in character click here and here.
Now because we are always pleased to drive the whole of the country we should say that the Addams went on an all-Ireland adventure.
And took in Charleville Castle in County Offaly and Dublin’s atmospheric Deansgrange Cemetery.
Powerscourt’s power pals
Tourism Ireland’s behind the scenes films add to a panoply of great shoots in Ireland’s Hollywood.
For our old friends the Slazengers at Powerscourt they count these stellar visitors as friends.
Tom Cruise, Ryan O’Neal, Rock Hudson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sally Field and Anne Hathaway.
Ireland’s film industry centres around its movie studios in Ardmore near the county’s biggest town Bray.
And like Jenna, Hollywood’s finest love the informality of the locals and just shooting the breeze in the seaside town.
With Britney Spears, no less, checking in to a tattoo parlour in the town on a flying visit.
While the great Sinead O’Connor made Bray hers and her children’s friends, including Daughterie, her home.
Another Hollywood in Wicklow
With all this pixie dust just an hour south of Dublin the good folk of Wickla have been quick to promote their Hollywood links.
Of course, it helps when you’ve got a ready-made village called Hollywood in the Wicklow foothills.
The story goes that in 1850 Wicklow native Matthew Guirke fled the Famine for America and named his homestead after his village.
While we’d never suggest you miss the opportunity to visit the American Hollywood the Irish version has one big advantage.
You will be allowed up to the letters without fear of a fine and being shouted down on a loudspeaker by LA cops.
A new pathway enables people to visit the upgraded aluminum sign in Wicklow for the first time.
And permits them to visit a site which they could only photographed previously.
Now we can’t vouch if our favourite Goth teen got her selfie there.
But we’d say Wednesday Addams in the Garden of Ireland was an adventure she’ll never forget.