Joy Sunday of Wednesday
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week, Tommy is joined by actress Joy Sunday who is currently captivating audiences in Season 2 of the smash-hit series Wednesday. Joy plays Bianca, the commanding and cool siren who has the ability to control people’s minds just by using her voice in the most watched English language series in Netflix history. Today, Joy opens up about the 18 group chats she’s in with her cast, what she has most enjoyed exploring from Season 1 to Season 2 as Bianca, if Bianca and Wednesday can ever be best friends, if she wants to see Bianca have a love interest next season, the powerful ways she relates to her character, fan girling over Catherine Zeta-Jones, if we will ever see Bianca in her non-human form, how she had to release control when it came to auditioning for Wednesday, how she has to fight to keep believing in herself, overcoming debilitating stagefright, who she would love to play in a biopic, revealing more of a secret talent, stepping into her directing era, the heavy burden she sometimes feels, and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | Hey guys, welcome to I've never said this before with me, Tommy Didario. |
| 0:11.1 | It is so hard to not notice how the Netflix smash it series Wednesday has taken over the world. |
| 0:17.2 | The full season two, it's out right now, and I chatted with my buddy Hunter Duhan last week, |
| 0:21.5 | who plays Tyler, aka The Hide, and I don't know, I just wasn't quite ready to let go of |
| 0:26.2 | the Wednesday world just yet. |
| 0:27.9 | So, my guest today is the brilliant Joy Sunday who plays Bianca, the commanding and cool |
| 0:33.7 | siren, in this Tim Burton masterpiece. |
| 0:37.4 | So Bianca has the ability to control people's minds |
| 0:40.0 | just by using her voice and I'm not going to lie. I felt like I was under a spell while chatting |
| 0:45.7 | with joy because she has such a magnetic and captivating energy. Oh, and did you know that Wednesday |
| 0:51.0 | became the most watched English language series in Netflix history? |
| 0:55.1 | Yeah, it amassed over 1.7 billion hours viewed catapulting joy to international stardom. |
| 1:01.6 | Today we are diving into all things Wednesday, but then we're also peeling back the layers of |
| 1:06.1 | joy to learn more about the person behind those mysterious eyes that are lighting up our screens right now. |
| 1:12.4 | So, let's see if today we can get Joy to say something that she has never said before. |
| 1:22.2 | Joy Sunday. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I am so good. It is so good to be hanging out with you. You are like radiating such beauty and goodness right now. Yes. I appreciate that because, you know, it's a cloudy day outside. I know. It's been a while since it's been cloudy. So, thank you. Well, it's a little jarring to not see you with your blue green contacts. Oh, my gosh. I'm like, wait. Are my fake eyes into them? You have the gorgeous, these chocolate eyes. I'm like, yes, I get to see them. I get to see them. Does wearing those contacts just get tiring ever? Honestly, I don't think about it much. I think, thankfully, God bless me with the big eyes. So there's, like, a lot of space for them to move around. However, this season, they have... So first season, I couldn't see anything because they didn't have prescription. And I'm like, slightly... It's not so bad. But second season, they have prescription, but they painted them. So I don't have peripheral vision. Wait, wait, they paint the contacts? |
| 2:19.1 | Yeah. |
| 2:19.5 | So, like, last season, it was just, like, printed, you know, whatever from CBS. |
| 2:23.3 | Not CVS, but like. |
| 2:24.5 | Right. |
| 2:25.7 | Why, you're really making this sound appealing. |
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