The Netflix series Wednesday broke records last year and became a pop culture phenomenon. Jenna Ortega portrayed the Addams daughter with a reserved, dark sense of humor, hitting a goth nerve the world didn’t even know it possessed.
A sideshow of the Wednesday boom: Jenna Ortega fired arrows of criticism at the writing and directing teams behind the series with bizarre regularity. She was almost always right about that. Ortega felt that her character was misunderstood and criticized the inappropriate love story. She also addressed issues behind the scenes. Season 2 is in development, albeit delayed due to the writers’ strike in Hollywood. According to a new interview by Jenna Ortega, the Wednesday team can look forward to more objections from her in Season 2.
“Just keep going”: Jenna Ortega can’t be stopped
The Hollywood Reporter regularly hosts talk shows between actors. In the current so-called roundtable, Jenna Ortega was a guest and her statements about Wednesday were the elephant in the room. However, the conversation first turned to Devery Jacobs, who plays one of the main roles in Reservation Dogs. Jacobs has been given a post in the series’ writers room and is even directing Season 3. Would those doors have opened because Jacobs had voiced her opinion on the development of the series? Jacobs agreed that she was probably one of them “annoying actresses”who would always have comments.
The elephant in the room grew to the size of a mammoth. What do you think Jenna Ortega, Master of Annotations, has to add to this conversation? We do not know whether everyone present held their breath at that moment. But we know what Jenna Ortega said and the sentence packs a punch:
And if anyone makes you feel like you’re annoying about it, then you just keep going.Jenna Ortega has more influence in Wednesday Season 2
Jenna Ortega has been well criticized for her criticism. It became a meme during the writers’ strike demonstrations. But this statement above shows that she doesn’t care. In Season 2 of the Netflix hit, it is already known that Jenna Ortega will receive a position as a producer. Criticizing Wednesday is now almost part of her job description and that can only have a positive effect on the quality.
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