The dark Netflix hit Wednesday may have been fun to watch, but it wasn’t always a fun experience to work on. Jenna Ortega, who plays the titular Addams family member, had some brutally honest thoughts on her first season working on the show. Seriously, she didn’t hold anything back.
As a recent guest on Dax Shepard’s podcast, “Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard,” Ortega talked about her frustrations with working on the show, particularly how the writers wrote her character. She even said it almost caused her to act unprofessional.
“Everything that she does, everything that I had to play, did not make sense for her character at all. Her being in a love triangle made no sense. There was a line about like, this dress that she has to wear for a school dance and she said, ‘Oh my god, I love it. Ugh, I can’t believe I said that. I literally hate myself.’ And I had to go, ‘No.'”
“There was times on that set where I even became almost unprofessional in a sense where I just started changing lines. The script supervisor thought that, like, I was going with something, and then I would have to sit down with the writers and they would be like, ‘Wait, what happened to the scene?’ And I would to have to go through and explain why I couldn’t do certain things. I grew very, very protective of [Wednesday], but you can’t lead a story, and have no emotional arc because then it’s boring and nobody likes you.”
But don’t let that worry you when it comes to the love Ortega, who also stars in Scream VI, has for the show. In a recent Elle cover story, she revealed that she plans to get even more involved with the production when it comes time for Season 2, taking on the role of executive producer in addition to being the lead. Season 2 of Wednesday has no release date yet, but it’ll be interesting to see where the writers take her character after its Season 1 finale. Hopefully, we get more moments like that dance scene—and less of the love triangle stuff.
Milan Polk is an Editorial Assistant for Men’s Health who specializes in entertainment and lifestyle reporting, and has worked for New York Magazine’s Vulture and Chicago Tribune.
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