Jenna Ortega cried ‘hysterically,’ pulled out hair over ‘Wednesday’ hours

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“Sunday scaries.”The 20-year-old actress has revealed that she cried “hysterically” and pulled out her hair over the hit Netflix series’ intense shooting schedule during a Q&A with director Tim Burton, Variety reported.

According to Ortega, the shoot — coupled with additional cello and fencing lessons — pushed the actress to her breaking point. “It was show up to set two hours early, do that 12- to 14-hour day, then go home and then get on a Zoom and have whatever lesson that I had,” Ortega recalled. “Or show up to my apartment, [and] my cello teacher was already waiting for me.

It was just constantly going, and if you could on a weekend, if we weren’t shooting the sixth day that week, it was, ‘All right, well then, we’ll get your lessons in on that day.'”The “You” actress said that she started the cello lessons months before filming started but still found the “Paint it Black” cello sequence — the classic song was originally made famous by the Rolling Stones in 1966 — difficult to master as she had to hire a new teacher once filming began. “I did not get any sleep.

I pulled my hair out,” said Ortega. “There’s so many FaceTime calls that my dad answered of me hysterically crying.”Ortega said that she was “very adamant about being as well prepared” because she wanted Burton to be able to use as much footage of her playing as possible.