‘Wednesday’ Star Jenna Ortega Gets Candid About Intense Filming Schedule

A Golden Globe-nominated performance as Wednesday Addams didn’t come easily for Jenna Ortega. The actress said she cried hysterically and even pulled her hair during long days on the Netflix series Wednesday. “It was show up to set two hours early, do that 12- to 14-hour day, then go home and then get on a Zoom and have whatever lesson that I had. Or show up to my apartment, [and] my cello teacher was already waiting for me,” Ortega said at a Netflix-hosted Q&a panel on February 9, per Variety. “It was just constantly going, and if you could on a weekend, if we weren’t shooting the sixth day that week, it was ‘All right, well then, we’ll get your lessons in on that day.’” The 20-year-old added that she studied fencing and cello before and during the first season’s eight-month shoot in Romania. “I did not get any sleep.
- 2/11/2023
- TV Insider
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