Jenna Ortega once shared her experience while making Season 1 Wednesday. One of her craziest admissions was when she said she started changing lines in the script without telling the writers.
Her comments caused some controversy, and if you don’t remember what she said, here’s her exact words: “I don’t think I’ve ever put in more effort on a set than I do right now.” Must be Wednesday.
“Everything Wednesday did, everything I had to play, made no sense for her character at all. She was in a love triangle? It made no sense. There was a line about the dress she had to wear to the school dance, and she said, “Oh my God, I love it. Ugh, I can’t believe I’m saying that. I really hate myself.”
“I had to say, ‘No.'” Sometimes, on set, I even became almost unprofessional, in the sense that I just started changing my lines. What does the script supervisor think I’m going to do, and then I have to sit down with the writers and they’re like, “Wait, what’s going on in the scene?” I have to explain why I can’t do certain things.
The comments struck a nerve among some professionals. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Jenna Ortega reflected on comments she made about changing her character’s lines on the Netflix show. Wednesday.
“I could probably describe it better with my words,” she admitted. “I think, a lot of the time, I’m such a rambler. I think it’s hard because I feel like if I could better represent the situation , may get better reviews.
Many Hollywood writers took to social media to accuse Ortega of being “toxic” and “powerless,” and on the picket line, some Writers Guild of America members held signs that read, “Without writers, Jenna Ortega would Nothing left.” Come boxing! “
Ortega continued: “Everything I said felt so amplified… It felt almost dystopian to me,” Ortega, now 21, told Vanity Fair. “I felt like a caricature.”
She went on to talk about the lessons she learned from that experience, saying: “You’re never going to please everyone, and as a natural people-pleaser, that’s really hard for me to understand. Some people might just Not liking you…that’s totally fine.
Ortega also said that even she was “sick of myself” last year, adding: “My face was everywhere… so to be fair, if I turn on my phone and see the same girl saying something stupid Quote or something and I’ll get over it.
wednesday executive producer and director Tim Burton Of working with Ortega, she said she was “very direct. She was very serious, which I found very refreshing and beautiful and artistic.
He even said Ortega “can coach [the series] If she wanted to. I found that from day one, she was very clear. Sometimes she knows better than I do.
Ortega not only stars in Wednesdaybut in season two, where she served as a producer, she was encouraged to take notes.
Wednesday The second season is expected to be released on Netflix in 2025.
