‘Wednesday’ star Jenna Ortega’s rude comments should kill her career — but they won’t
nypost.com“Armchair Expert” podcast that her behavior at work was “unprofessional.” But Ortega wasn’t on a teary-eyed apology tour atoning for her sins.
No, she was extolling her rotten behavior as a virtue. On the podcast, the actress — who’s also in “Scream VI” — discussed how, like an authoritarian dictator, she was a self-appointed script doctor on “Wednesday” and that she deserves the utmost thanks from the actual paid, unionized writers for bettering their thoughtless schlock.“There were times on that set where I even became almost unprofessional in a sense where I just started changing lines,” Ortega said, proudly citing the sort of actions that would get anybody else in any other profession fired. “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.”Some of those things: “[Wednesday] 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.’”Jenna, you’re in a mediocre spinoff of “The Addams Family” that’s best known for a flailing-arms dance on TikTok.
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