Wednesday fans in a new interview not to ‘ship “real-life people.”‘To ship’ is when fans of a show or movie “wishfully regard specific people of fictional characters as being or having the potential to become romantically involved with one another”.
On the show Wednesday, fans regularly ’ship the relationship between Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) and her character Enid, willing them to get together romantically.Myers says she and Ortega joked about the reaction while filming season one but thinks real-life people shouldn’t be dragged into such views.“I’ve grown up as a big fan of things, so I know how the ‘shipping goes online, so I understand,” she told NME in a new interview, which you can read in full above. “’Ship who you want as long as you’re not dragging real-life people into it.”She continued: “If you want to ‘ship’ those characters, go for it.
We made a couple of jokes about it here and there when filming, but we didn’t think that side of the fandom would be so big and intense.
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