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Jenna Ortega has established herself as a forward-looking - Clarence Shepard Day Jr. scream nance , and her role as the titular protagonist in Netflix’sWednesdayis a big part of that . Though she start her career as a Disney kid , repulsion was always in the cards for the actress , with one ofOrtega ’s first motion picture office being inInsidious 2 . As she win more achiever , Ortega took on more ripe roles , particularly in the horror genre . In 2022 alone , Ortega starred in the repulsion moviesScreamandX , and horror - comediesAmerican CarnageandStudio 666 . That same year , she also played Wednesday Addams .

Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday Controversy & Backlash Explained

Her Comments About Changing Lines Didn’t Land Well During The WGA Strike

There were clock time on that set where I even became almost unprofessional in a sensory faculty where I just started changing line of reasoning … The script supervisor thought I was going with something and then I had to sit down with the writer , and they ’d be like , ‘ await , what happened to the vista ? ’ And I ’d have to go and excuse why I could n’t go do certain things .

Wednesday may be at Nevermore , but that should n’t stop her from overhear up with some Graeco-Roman Addams Family case .

Wednesday Creators Addressed Ortega’s Comments

They Embrace Collaboration With The Actress

GOUGH : That ’s hard . We ’ve done a few of these show , like Smallville , which was a big hit out of the gate . Suddenly , you have these untried stars in the glare . They ’re go to misstep . They ’re going to say thing . I reckon you just have to give them grace and experience that it happens . It ’s never pleasant , but it just make out with the territory . I think we ’re at the point now where the cyberspace ’s go to do what the internet ’s going to do . What you do n’t need to do is give these things oxygen .

MILLAR : We turn with Jenna very closely on the show . We obviously worked with her on Beetlejuice . It ’s always an incredibly collaborative and joyful experience . We could n’t be prouder of her workand we ’ve embraced her as a producer on the show this year .

She is one of the hardest workings , most talented young actresses in the business , and we are very favorable and find very proud that she ’s working with us . So it is what it is . A show of this size and this scale is always go to have people chattering . But it ’s not our reality or her realism .

Jenna Ortega in Wednesday-1

Jenna Ortega Became An Executive Producer On Wednesday Season 2

“I Felt Empowered To Speak My Mind”

Wednesday time of year 2 is on its way , and this is what we believe will find in the serial .

From everything said about Ortega ’s work in season 1 , being hands - on is very significant to her , and now she ’s doing so in an official capacity . ForWednesdayseason 2,Ortega was involved in not only acting and cooperate with the writers , but also in costumes and shake off . Of her unexampled executive manufacturer role , Ortega toldThe Cut , " I feel empowered to speak my creative thinker . " speak like a true Wednesday Addams .

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