Wednesday‘s right hand “man,” named “Thing,” on the Netflix series of the same name is not CGI, but rather an actual hand!
Romanian magician Victor Dorobantu is the person who plays Thing on the hit show, and he had to dress in a blue screen suit and just have his hand, along with a prosthetic, shown.
Victor auditioned for the role just like any other actor on the show, and was chosen by showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar, as well as director/executive producer Tim Burton.
“Thing is so unique to the Addams Family that we thought we couldn’t have an Addams version of the world you’re exploring [without] Thing in there. It’s easy to write it on the page. To actually translate that on the screen, we found an actor who’s a close hand magician,” Al Gough told Variety.
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