Jenna Ortega: I became ‘unprofessional’ on ‘Wednesday’ set

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Wednesday.”Ortega, 20, recently revealed that many of the scripts made no sense for her character and she ended up changing the scripts without consulting the writers.She told “Armchair Expert” podcast host and fellow actor Dax Shepard, 48, that when she first signed onto the show, she didn’t have all of the scripts, so she assumed the series would be “a lot darker” and didn’t know what the tone would be or score would sound like.But once she read the entire series, Ortega realized it was geared toward a younger audience.“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 shared. “Everything that Wednesday does, everything I had to play, did not make sense for her character at all.”She continued to give examples of some out-of-character moments in the show, revealing: “Her being in a love triangle?

It 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 were times on that set where I even became almost unprofessional in a sense where I just started changing lines,” Ortega admitted. “The script supervisor thought I was going with something and then I had to sit down with the writers, and they’d be like, ‘Wait, what happened to the scene?’ And I’d have to go and explain why I couldn’t go do certain things.”The “Scream VI” star ultimately wanted her character to have more depth, and she grew “very, very protective” of the Wednesday role.“You can’t lead a story and have no emotional arc because then it’s boring and nobody likes you.