Steven DeKnight Walks Back ‘Toxic’ Comments About ‘Wednesday’ Star Jenna Ortega
thewrap.comArmchair Expert podcast, in which she told host Dax Shepard of the steps she took on behalf of her character on the Netflix series: “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.'”Absolutely!
Again, I can't stress this enough: She's an amazing talent. It was just an unfortunate situation to expose creative differences publicly, and also I'll admit that writers are on edge because of the impending strike, myself included.
A perfect storm. https://t.co/hQw6qBseInThe 20-year-old actress, who also stars in “Scream VI” and “X,” told Shepard, “I became almost unprofessional in a sense, where I just started changing lines.
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.”DeKnight, who has not worked with Ortega, blasted the actress on Twitter on May 7, saying, “She’s young, so maybe she doesn’t know any better (but she should).
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