When Emma Myers first learned that “Wednesday” had been renewed for Season 2, she was in a van going back to base camp after wrapping for the day on the set of an upcoming Netflix film. “They emailed me, and I was like, ‘Oh, cool,’” she says. “I wasn’t allowed to tell anybody yet, so I couldn’t have said anything to anybody who was in the van with me. But I mean, I felt it coming. I feel like all of us felt it coming.”

Myers, 20, stars in the hit Netflix show as Enid Sinclair, the wide-eyed, sunshiny werewolf counterpart to Jenna Ortega’s dour, darkly humorous Wednesday. Their characters’ dynamic charmed audiences when all eight episodes premiered on Nov. 23, and “Wednesday” quickly became one of Netflix’s top watched shows ever, racking up nearly 6 billion minutes viewed in the first five days after its release. It spent six weeks at No. 1 and spawned — in addition to an abundance of fancams, fan art and fan fiction — a viral TikTok dance to Lady Gaga’s “Bloody Mary.”

Though Enid is a bubbly, social extrovert whose eagerness plays off Wednesday’s deadpan, antisocial inclinations, Myers herself identifies as an introvert who’s “quite awkward.” Originally from Orlando, Fla., she began acting in theater and commercials, then took a break when she was 11 to play sports. Her family moved to Atlanta five years later, where she began acting in earnest again. Speaking from Los Angeles, where she’s shooting “Family Leave,” a movie starring Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms, Myers chatted with Variety about her reaction to “Wednesday’s” success, her theories for Season 2 and the potential evolution of Wednesday and Enid’s friendship.