'It's such a hard language': Emma Myers reacts to her viral Filipino-speaking scene with Noah Taylor in 'Wednesday'
Emma Myers called Tagalog a "hard language" as she rewatched her character Enid's viral scene with Noah Taylor's Bruno in the second season of Wednesday.
In an interview shared on Netflix's Instagram page for the show, the actress shared how much effort she and Taylor put into their Filipino-speaking scene that aired in its sixth episode titled Woe Thyself.
"Oh my God. I can't watch this. I haven't seen any of this. Oh my God. I'm gonna close my eyes," she said as the first part of it played.
"Wait, I did it!" she went on. "It's such a hard language. The two of us were literally pacing outside of our trailers just reciting it."
She noted that she and Taylor "both really tried" to pull it off. "That was probably the only good take they got of me saying it."
After replaying the entire portion of the episode, she confidently said, "It's not as bad as I thought it would be."
"I've been really nervous to watch the scene. I'm sweating right now," she continued.
The scene ties directly to Bruno, a half-Filipino werewolf introduced in Wednesday's second installment.
In the episode, Wednesday and her best friend Enid accidentally switch bodies after a ritual goes wrong. While inhabiting Enid’s body, Wednesday overhears Bruno making a secret phone call in Tagalog: “Miss na kita. Miss ko na yung pagpasyal natin sa beach. Miss ko na lalo yung matamis na mga labi mo. Baba ko na ’to, mahal ko.”
The betrayal leads to a heated confrontation where Wednesday, played by Myers in Enid’s body, responds in Tagalog herself: “Huwag mo na kong kausapin, manlolokong taksil.”
She later explained in the episode that Wednesday learned the language from her Filipino fencing tutor named Datu.
Netflix premiered the first four episodes of Wednesday season 2 on Aug. 6 and the latter ones on Sept. 3. It continues to follow the titular character, played by Jenna Ortega, as she returns to Nevermore Academy.
