Under pressure. Jenna Ortega cried while talking to Elle Fanning about the intensity of using social media as a young actress.For Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series, published on Wednesday, June 7, the Scream 6 star, 20, and the Girl From Plainville alum, 25, spoke in depth about their experiences navigating Hollywood in the face of stardom at a young age — particularly when it comes to Instagram.Though Ortega has been acting since she was a child — and has a starring role in the Scream franchise — it wasn’t until Wednesday premiered in November 2022 that the Netflix star noticed “a very obvious shift in my life, maybe three days after the show came out.”For Fanning, who, like Ortega, has been in the spotlight since she was a young girl, social media “can get toxic,” she told the X actress — who immediately agreed.In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies“Yeah, it gets ugly,” Ortega shared, explaining that she was under intense pressure to build her following from a young age.“When I was younger, they would take us to media training — Disney 101 or something like that — where they would say, ‘You’re going to post three times a day.
This is how you build followers, engage, promote our show,’” she recalled. “You could go into an audition or meeting, and it was, ‘How many followers do you have?’”It wasn’t just the industry that wanted perfection, Ortega noted. “Social media, what it does to anyone our age, it’s such a comparing game.
It influences bandwagon mentality. It’s very manipulative. After the show, I’m really nervous to post or even say anything on there or even be myself because I feel like —““It could be misinterpreted,” Fanning interjected.“Yeah.
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