“I Felt Like A Caricature Of Myself”: Jenna Ortega Recalled The “Hard” Backlash Over Her Comments About Rewriting “Wednesday” Lines

“I don’t think I’ve ever had to put my foot down on a set in the way that I had to on Wednesday because it’s so easy to fall into [the teen] category, especially with this type of show,” she told Dax Shepard on the Armchair Expert podcast in March 2023.

“There was a line about 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’s no way,’” Jenna recalled. “There were times on that set where I even became almost unprofessional in a sense where I just started changing lines.”

She continued: “The script supervisor thought that 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 have to go through and explain why I couldn’t do certain things.”

Jenna further explained that she did this because she was “very, very protective” of her character.