Toronto, 8 March 2023 (GNP): Netflix show’s ‘Wednesday’ actress, Jenna Ortega revealed that she altered the series’ script without letting the creators know.
In a recent episode of the ‘Armchair Expert podcast’, the twenty year old actress who plays the role of Wednesday, the second-most popular English-language series on the streaming service, admitted that the majority of the original scripts didn’t make any sense to her from the perspective of the characters.
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She therefore continued and occasionally modified dialogues without letting the writers know. The actress stated on the podcast: “When I read the entire series, I realized, ‘Oh, this is for younger audiences. When I first signed onto the show, I didn’t have all the scripts. I thought it was going to be a lot darker. It wasn’t… I didn’t know what the tone was, or what the score would sound like.”
She continued further saying: “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’. Everything that Wednesday does, everything I had to play, did not make sense for her character at all. 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. 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 Wednesday Addams, who lacked development and was perpetually dull, morose, and droll, was obviously not the character Jenna wanted to play. She thought the strategy wouldn’t be effective with a teenager.
“I grew very, very protective of her. You can’t lead a story and have no emotional arc because then it’s boring and nobody likes you. When you are little and say very morbid, offensive stuff, it’s funny and endearing. But then you become a teenager and it’s nasty and you know it. There’s less of an excuse.” – she concluded her statement.
