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Weird is the new normal
A new animated version of “The Addams Family” will be back in theaters this October. Charlize Theron, who voices Morticia Addams, says the spooky family can teach society a lesson or two about embracing all different types of families.
“I’ve always been intrigued [by] kind of re-looking at what we think that image of a family should look like,” Theron told Entertainment Tonight. “And this is such a classic, long-term, endearing family that we’ve known since the sixties. Really, what they’ve always stood for is, ‘Yes, we’re weird, we’re different, and we don’t look like everything else or everybody else out there and that’s what makes us [who we are.] That’s what we bring to the table.’…And I just think it’s so timely to tell that story and to be able to be a part of something like that.”
The Addams family has stood the test of time. It began as a long-running TV show in the 1960s, and the story of the beloved Gothic family been remade into several movies, stage productions, and TV specials. Theron’s on-screen husband, Oscar Isaac, agrees with Theron that the Addams Family encourages people to accept different families.
“It’s always been about that, The Addams Family, that’s why I’ve always loved it so much,” Isaac said. “It’s about celebrating how weird and unique and different these families are, and [it has a] kind of macabre aspect to it as well, which makes it really fun. That’s for me why I got so excited about it, and also the idea of a family of immigrants that come to New Jersey for a better life and you know the struggles with what that entails, which I think a lot of people can relate to.”
