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Jenna Ortega has come under fire for saying she was “an unhappy person” after getting famous for her role as Wednesday Addams in the hit Netflix show “Wednesday.”
The 22-year-old actress opened up about the role and the fame it brought her during an interview with Harper’s Bazaar published on Wednesday, May 28.
“To be quite frank, after the show and trying to figure everything out, I was an unhappy person,” Ortega admitted. “After the pressure, the attention – as somebody who’s quite introverted, that was so intense and so scary.”
Ortega, who began filming the first season of “Wednesday” in 2021, added that she felt “incredibly misunderstood” upon getting popular from the show.
“I feel like being a bully is very popular right now,” she added. “Having been on the wrong side of the rumor mill was incredibly eye-opening.”
Elsewhere in her interview, the scream queen said that being Wednesday Addams is “very patronizing” because she is stuck playing a schoolgirl on the screen despite becoming a young woman in real life.
Ortega, whose birthday is Sept. 27, will turn 23 shortly after the second season of “Wednesday” premieres on Netflix on Aug. 6.
“I’m doing a show I’m going to be doing for years where I play a schoolgirl,” Ortega explained. “But I’m also a young woman. You just don’t feel like you’re being taken seriously.”
“You know, it’s like how you’re dressed in the schoolgirl costume,” she added. “There’s just something about it that’s very patronizing.”
But Ortega’s remarks created a serious backlash, with several of her critics rushing to social media to bash the former “Scream” star over her surprising comments.
“I bet the huge 6 and 7 figure paychecks she took for the role weren’t that patronizing though,” one person tweeted after the interview.
“Cry me a river,” someone else added, while a third critic commented, “So sick of people complaining about easy jobs they made millions on.”
“Then she could have passed on the role,” a fourth person wrote on X. “I like her but this seems like biting the hand that feeds you.”
However, Ortega’s supporters defended the “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” starlet over what she had to say about her role on “Wednesday” and the popularity it brought her as an actress.
“She isn’t wrong,” one supporter wrote.
“Fair play to her,” another added, while a third fan tweeted, “She looked nice as Wednesday.”
“Yall need to leave this girl alone,” a fourth fan commented.
Meanwhile, Ortega also clarified that she remains “very grateful” for the fandom she has received because of “Wednesday.”
“I want to be able to give back to them,” she said of her fans. “But I also want to do things that are creatively fulfilling to me.”
The “Death of a Unicorn” star received similar backlash for comments she made in March 2023.
At the time, Ortega revealed that she had changed parts of her “Wednesday” script when certain lines “did not make sense for her character at all.”
“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,’” she said during a podcast interview with Dax Shepard at the time.
Ortega later backtracked on those remarks, admitting that she “could have used my words better” when talking with Shepard about the show.
“To be fair, I think I probably could have been — I probably could have used my words better in describing all of that,” she told Vanity Fair in September 2024.
“I think, oftentimes, I’m such a rambler,” she added. “I think it was hard because I felt like had I represented the situation better, it probably would’ve been received better.”