“The Addams Family” cast reunites and remembers Raul Julia: 'He kept us entertained'

Christina Ricci, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd, Jimmy Workman, and Carel Struycken gathered at L.A. Comic Con to share memories of the '90s films.

Tinkle that piano and snap your fingers, because the Addams Family is back together again.

This past weekend, L.A. Comic Con reunited the surviving cast members of the two '90s films (The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, both directed by Barry Sonnenfeld) about the spooky family originally created by cartoonist Charles Addams. Christina Ricci (who played Wednesday Addams), Anjelica Huston (Morticia Addams), Christopher Lloyd (Uncle Fester), Jimmy Workman (Pugsley), and Carel Struycken (Lurch) gathered at the convention panel to share their memories of working on the films.

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Obviously absent from the gathering was Raul Julia, who portrayed patriarch Gomez Addams and died in 1994, just a year after the release of Addams Family Values. But the surviving costars shared delightful memories of working with Julia on set. Huston highlighted his professionalism and penchant for keeping everyone's spirits up.

"He was the perfect gentleman," Huston said. "He was always the first on set and the last to leave. He was a great dancer. I'd get really grumpy around dancing rehearsals, which I felt were unnecessary since I was such an excellent dancer. But he would insist on being there and staying all the way through."

Huston added, "he'd always sing, between scenes and between takes. He always sang full opera! He kept us entertained."

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These days, the Addams Family characters have experienced a popular resurgence thanks to Netflix's reboot series Wednesday, which stars Jenna Ortega in the titular role previously played by Ricci. Wednesday seems particularly popular with younger viewers, keeping with how The Addams Family and Addams Family Values were made as family films. So what is it about these characters that so appeals to kids?

“Because we’re doing all the wrong things and getting a lot of attention for it," Huston said.

When Entertainment Weekly visited the set of The Addams Family in 1991, Ricci summarized "a really rough week" on set as such: "I had to chop off Pugsley's arm, recite Shakespeare, and do this gigantic death scene (for the school play in the movie). It was really exhausting." In the second movie, her Wednesday goes on to think of increasingly creative attempts at murdering her new baby brother.

At the panel, Ricci shared an even more specific insight into kids' understanding of The Addams Family antics that she learned after showing the movies to her own child.

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“I remember showing my son The Addams Family when he was 6 and he just kept looking at me and saying, ‘oh mom, you’re so naughty,'" Ricci said at the panel. "Like he was thrilled that all these people were so naughty, that he couldn’t believe it.”

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