Yahoo News Wednesday's Jenna Ortega admits she was "unprofessional" on set as she changed dialogue
Jenna Ortega has admitted to being "unprofessional in a sense" on the set of Wednesday as she changed lines in the script.
The actress takes on the lead role of Wednesday Addams in the Netflix series, which became a huge hit for the streamer when it was released last year.
However, in a new interview on the Armchair Expert podcast (via Insider), Ortega explained that she had disagreements with the scripts that led her to putting her "foot down".
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“Everything that Wednesday does, everything I had to play, did not make sense for her character at all,” she recalled.
“Her being in a love triangle made no sense. There was a line about a dress she has to wear for a school dance and she says, ‘Oh my God, I love it! Ugh, I can’t believe I said that. I literally hate myself.’ I had to go, ‘No, there's no way'.”
Ortega added that "there were times on that set where I even became unprofessional in a sense where I just started changing lines".
"The script supervisor thought I was going with something, and then I would have to sit down with the writers and they’d be like, ‘Wait, what happened to the scene?’ And I would have to go through and explain why I couldn’t do certain things," she added.
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The actress admitted that she did have to accept certain story elements, however, continuing: “I grew very, very protective of her, but you can’t lead a story and have no emotional arc because then it’s boring and nobody likes you. And Wednesday is a teenager.
“When you’re little and you say morbid, offensive stuff, it’s funny and endearing and, 'Aww, you don’t know any better'. But then you become a teenager, it’s, 'Now you’re being nasty and you know it'. There’s less excuse.”
Ortega also said that she feels Wednesday isn't her "proudest moment", adding: "I can't watch my work, but I can go home from set and say, 'The scene that we shot today felt good'. On Wednesday, there was not a scene in that show that I went home and was like, 'OK, that should be fine'."
Wednesday streams on Netflix – season 2 has been confirmed.
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