"He's introduced in an old ghost story - "The Tale of the Skull Tree," rendered in Tim Burton's signature stop-motion animation - told to Pugsley Addams (Isaac Ordonez) and his dormmates by their RA. The fable of a gifted Nevermore student driven to madness and death by his ambition is meant to serve as a warning, but when Pugsley sneaks off to the Skull Tree to investigate whether it's true, he literally sparks the dead boy back to life."
"It's quite an effort, and one so physically impressive that Painter's audition mostly involved improvising movements on the spot. "I was told to act out 'You've been sitting for a thousand years and your voice box doesn't work, and water's going to fix that, so you should have a glass of water across the room, but some stuff is in your way,'" he says. "I had so much fun messing around with that and coming up with physical gags and jokes.""
Owen Painter's character is introduced through a stop-motion ghost story called "The Tale of the Skull Tree," told to Pugsley Addams and dormmates by their RA. Pugsley sneaks to the Skull Tree and resurrects a dead, almost fleshless boy who becomes a mindless zombie nicknamed Slurp. Over eight episodes Slurp consumes multiple brains, including Professor Orloff's, to regain his original form. Painter's audition emphasized improvisational physicality, with directions to act like someone who had sat a thousand years and whose voice box needed water. In part two Isaac finds his dying sister Francoise and her son Tyler Galpin and plots to save Francoise and get revenge on the Addams family.
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