She doesn’t bury hatchets; she sharpens them.
Jenna Ortega has come below fireplace for saying she was “an unhappy person” after getting well-known for her function as Wednesday Addams within the hit Netflix present “Wednesday.”
The 22-year-old actress opened up in regards to the function and the celebrity it introduced her throughout an interview with Harper’s Bazaar printed on Wednesday, Could 28.
“To be quite frank, after the show and trying to figure everything out, I was an unhappy person,” Ortega admitted. “After the pressure, the attention – as somebody who’s quite introverted, that was so intense and so scary.”
Ortega, who started filming the primary season of “Wednesday” in 2021, added that she felt “incredibly misunderstood” upon getting well-liked from the present.
“I feel like being a bully is very popular right now,” she added. “Having been on the wrong side of the rumor mill was incredibly eye-opening.”
Elsewhere in her interview, the scream queen stated that being Wednesday Addams is “very patronizing” as a result of she is caught taking part in a schoolgirl on the display regardless of turning into a younger lady in actual life.
Ortega, whose birthday is Sept. 27, will flip 23 shortly after the second season of “Wednesday” premieres on Netflix on Aug. 6.
“I’m doing a show I’m going to be doing for years where I play a schoolgirl,” Ortega defined. “But I’m also a young woman. You just don’t feel like you’re being taken seriously.”
“You know, it’s like how you’re dressed in the schoolgirl costume,” she added. “There’s just something about it that’s very patronizing.”
However Ortega’s remarks created a severe backlash, with a number of of her critics speeding to social media to bash the previous “Scream” star over her stunning feedback.
“I bet the huge 6 and 7 figure paychecks she took for the role weren’t that patronizing though,” one particular person tweeted after the interview.
“Cry me a river,” another person added, whereas a 3rd critic commented, “So sick of people complaining about easy jobs they made millions on.”
“Then she could have passed on the role,” a fourth particular person wrote on X. “I like her but this seems like biting the hand that feeds you.”
Nevertheless, Ortega’s supporters defended the “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” starlet over what she needed to say about her function on “Wednesday” and the recognition it introduced her as an actress.
“She isn’t wrong,” one supporter wrote.
“Fair play to her,” one other added, whereas a 3rd fan tweeted, “She looked nice as Wednesday.”
“Yall need to leave this girl alone,” a fourth fan commented.
In the meantime, Ortega additionally clarified that she stays “very grateful” for the fandom she has obtained due to “Wednesday.”
“I want to be able to give back to them,” she stated of her followers. “But I also want to do things that are creatively fulfilling to me.”
The “Death of a Unicorn” star obtained comparable backlash for feedback she made in March 2023.
On the time, Ortega revealed that she had modified components of her “Wednesday” script when sure strains “did not make sense for her character at all.”
“I don’t think I’ve ever had to put my foot down more on a set in a way that I had to on ‘Wednesday,’” she stated throughout a podcast interview with Dax Shepard on the time.
Ortega later backtracked on these remarks, admitting that she “could have used my words better” when speaking with Shepard in regards to the present.
“To be fair, I think I probably could have been — I probably could have used my words better in describing all of that,” she instructed Vainness Honest in September 2024.
“I think, oftentimes, I’m such a rambler,” she added. “I think it was hard because I felt like had I represented the situation better, it probably would’ve been received better.”
