{"id":1954,"date":"2025-08-06T20:22:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baldheadedgirls.com\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2025-08-07T14:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T14:59:11","slug":"im-not-afraid-any-more-joy-sunday-on-wednesday-growth-between-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baldheadedgirls.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/im-not-afraid-any-more-joy-sunday-on-wednesday-growth-between-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m Not Afraid Any More.\u201d Joy Sunday On Wednesday & Growth Between Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joy Sunday<\/a> glides into the lobby of The Whitby Hotel in New York City\u2019s midtown donning a caramel corset and flouncy Emilio Pucci mini skirt.\u00a0 Sunday\u2019s presence and her features are strikingly captivating, but\u00a0she doesn\u2019t need the striped blazer or greenish-blue contacts she wears to suit up for her role as Bianca Barclay<\/a> on Netflix\u2019s Wednesday<\/em><\/a> <\/em>to turn heads in real life. It\u2019s clear that Sunday\u2019s confidence gives life to Bianca, the siren with the power to mesmerize and persuade even the most strong-willed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bianca is Sunday\u2019s first role as a main character in a TV series. And with the show being Netflix\u2019s most watched<\/a> English language original series ever, she hit the ground running. Now going into a new season \u2014 the first four episodes premiere today, Wednesday, August 6 \u2014 Sunday assures you, me, and everyone else watching that she isn\u2019t stopping. At all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m being very strategic about how I\u2019m moving forward, because I\u2019m not losing this platform,\u201d the 28-year-old New York native said matter of factly. \u201cI\u2019m taking it to the end, and I want to take others with me. It\u2019s not a threat, but it\u2019s a promise.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m taking it to the end, and I want to take others with me. It\u2019s not a threat, but it\u2019s a promise.<\/p>\n

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In Season 1, we\u2019re introduced to Bianca as a popular student at Nevermore Academy who has control over her powers, despite the mistrust she faces from others, including her ex. When Wednesday (Jenna Ortega<\/a>) shows up, they share a brief rivalry before Bianca joins her investigation into the mayor\u2019s death. Season 2 goes deeper into Bianca\u2019s vulnerability, Sunday explained. Bianca\u2019s past comes back to haunt her and she\u00a0 begins reckoning with her relationship with her mother, a siren who uses her powers to scam and wants her daughter to follow suit.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Season 2, she\u2019s trying to hide herself and conceal what\u2019s going on in the background, and so she\u2019s really having to come to terms with what she really didn\u2019t want to do in Season 1,\u201d Sunday said. \u201cNow she\u2019s being forced to [be a] more compassionate individual. Because that\u2019s something that she judged her mom, Gabrielle (Gracy Goldman<\/a>), for so heavily in Season 1, and that now she finds herself in the same position.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Addressing motherhood wounds plays a huge part in Season 2 overall. Viewers will see most of the main characters\u2019 relationships with their moms, for better or worse. As Bianca navigates her own challenges at school, she\u2019s now faced with the task of protecting Gabrielle, a theme the teen experienced in their relationship growing up. Sunday said she appreciates the duo\u2019s redemptive arc and the opportunity to find healing for them.<\/p>\n

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Young Black women are forced to mature faster than anyone else is to understand their relationship to the world\u2026 I think that\u2019s why it\u2019s so special to get to see Bianca need help and to eventually learn to ask for it.<\/p>\n

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Despite this being a fantastical world, Sunday believes that forgiveness is important to see. Especially for Black girls who often have to mature faster than others.<\/p>\n

\u201cYoung Black women are forced to mature faster than anyone else is to understand their relationship to the world and to the family, how the world sees them and how they see themselves,\u201d Sunday passionately stated. \u201cI think that\u2019s why it\u2019s so special to get to see Bianca need help and to eventually learn to ask for it. And it\u2019s also nice to see people come to her aid without her asking for it, and to see people advocate for her as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Bianca\u2019s confidence may have wavered a bit since the first season, Sunday\u2019s has only grown. Three years ago when Wednesday first premiered, Sunday was still new to doing press runs and red carpets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI almost felt like I needed to play a role or to fit in terms of how I was presenting myself,\u201d she admitted. That feeling has faded as she\u2019s gotten her reps in for projects like Rise<\/em><\/a> (2023)<\/em> and Under The Influencer<\/em><\/a> (2024). But with the writers and actors strike in 2023 and a shaky Hollywood economy, Sunday admits that work hasn\u2019t been as steady. Thankfully, becoming a global ambassador for Lancome<\/a> has helped sustain her and her family.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a journey of working my way back to this feeling of confidence and this feeling of, I\u2019ve got some shit to do<\/em>,\u201d she explained. \u201cI\u2019ve been through trials and tribulations, but I think it\u2019s really an important part of the actor\u2019s journey to share that it\u2019s not always going to be the \u2018hurry up.\u2019 Sometimes it\u2019s going to be the \u2018wait.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t looking like a \u201cwait\u201d season for Sunday, however. In February, Deadline announced that the actor would be joining the HBO limited series DTF St. Louis<\/em><\/a>. And ahead of its Season 2 premiere, Netflix renewed Wednesday<\/em> for a third season<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Going forward, Sunday is prepared to show the industry more of what she\u2019s made of. She\u2019s eyeing more fantasy and supernatural roles and some action. (She\u2019s specifically manifesting Interview With the Vampire<\/em><\/a> and Ghost Dog 2<\/em><\/a>.<\/em>) In this era, Sunday knows she\u2019s more than good.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel empowered to say I am that much more extensive of an artist, and I\u2019m not afraid to show that,\u201d she said. \u201cIn Season 1, I was kind of afraid of having to fit in the boxes. I wanted to make sure that everything would go well, but I\u2019m not afraid any more. I\u2019m excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wednesday Season 2 is streaming on Netflix now. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Joy Sunday glides into the lobby of The Whitby Hotel in New York City\u2019s midtown donning a caramel corset and flouncy Emilio Pucci mini skirt.\u00a0 Sunday\u2019s presence and her features are strikingly captivating, but\u00a0she doesn\u2019t need the striped blazer or greenish-blue contacts she wears to suit up for her role as Bianca Barclay on Netflix\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baldheadedgirls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/baldheadedgirls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/baldheadedgirls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baldheadedgirls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baldheadedgirls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/baldheadedgirls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"http:\/\/baldheadedgirls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baldheadedgirls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baldheadedgirls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baldheadedgirls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baldheadedgirls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}