Steven DeKnight apologizes to ‘toxic and entitled’ Jenna Ortega, sorta

nypost.com:

tweeted a semi-apology to Ortega for his prior statements — on Wednesday, suitably enough — about Netflix’s 20-year-old breakout star.“I can’t stress this enough: She’s an amazing talent,” said DeKnight, 58, who’s produced and scripted shows such as “Daredevil” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” over his multi-decade career.“It was just an unfortunate situation to expose creative differences publicly,” he added, “and also I’ll admit that writers are on edge because of the impending strike, myself included.

A perfect storm.”The comments come after “Scream VI” star Ortega revealed on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast that she changed lines in blockbuster hit Netflix series and behaved “unprofessionally” at times.“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,'” Ortega declared earlier this week, the latest in a string of recent jabs at her own show.

DeKnight initially fired back by tweeting, “She’s young, so maybe she doesn’t know any better (but she should). She should also ask herself how she would feel if the showrunners gave an interview and talked about how difficult she was and refused to perform the material.”The producer and filmmaker also said that sometimes stars “don’t have the full pictures [in TV] of where the story is going and why some lines are needed for the whole to make sense.”This kind of statement is beyond entitled and toxic.

I love her work, but life’s too short to deal with people like this in the business.The Post reached out to DeKnight and Ortega for comment.