Jenna Ortega wasn't thrilled with her Wednesday scripts: 'There were times... where I just started changing lines'
podcast, “and there’s a part of me that almost feels like I’ve succumbed to this commercial version and kind of given up on my own personal interests.”Wednesdaypresented challenges she hadn’t encountered before. Namely, finding great success and recognition from a project she can’t truly say she’s proud of.“I can’t watch my work, but I can go home from set and say ‘The scene that we shot today felt good.
but she didn’t have all the scripts yet. Once she began to see more clearly the trajectory of the series, she says she had to really push to make sure the series didn’t descend into treacly, formulaic territory.Ortega recalls“Everything that she does, everything that I had to play, did not make sense for her character at all. Her being in a love triangle made no sense. There was a line about a dress that she has to wear for a school dance and she said ‘Oh my god I love it...
“There were times on that set where I almost became unprofessional in a sense, where I just started changing lines,” Ortega recalls. “The script supervisor thought that I was like going with something and then I would have to sit down with the writers and they would be like ‘Wait, what happened to this scene?’ And I would have to go through and explain why I couldn’t do certain things.
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