Jenna Ortega drops big career update as fans eagerly await 'Wednesday' Season 3
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Jenna Ortega has made some stunning remarks about her career as fans eagerly wait for the release of ‘Wednesday’ season 3.
The actress, 24, appeared on Josh Horowitz’s ‘Happy Sad Confused’ podcast, released on Thursday, October 22, where she opened up about her future, as reported by Page Six.
Jenna Ortega shares she'll take a break from TV after 'Wednesday'
She shared, “I actually haven’t had a lot of franchise conversations. What I’m meant to do will come and find me. I think after Wednesday, I’ll probably be off the TV for a while.”
“You know I had many years doing [TV]. I was bouncing from show to show as a kid and I want to leave time for new things,” the ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ star explained.
The new season of the horror series is set to release next year and there’s been no confirmation yet if this will be the last too. The new set of episodes also stars Ortega’s ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ co-star Winona Ryder and Eva Green.
Jenna Ortega reveals she did not want to do 'Wednesday'
Ortega’s recent comments came three years after she revealed in 2023 that she did not want to do ‘Wednesday’ at first.
She told The Sunday Times, “I had done so much TV in my life, all I’ve ever wanted to do is film.”
But she eventually agreed to play the lead character Wednesday Addams because of its creator Tim Burton, who as per her, “is such a legend, and we just happened to get along very well. But even then I said, ‘Ah, no – I think I’m OK,’ a couple times.”
Jenna Ortega explains how she became 'unprofessional' on set of 'Wednesday'
Also in March 2023, Ortega reportedly admitted on an episode of the ‘Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard’ podcast that she “became almost unprofessional” by getting involved with the scriptwriting on the set of ‘Wednesday’.
She said at the time, “There were times on that set where I even became almost unprofessional, in a sense, where I just started changing lines. The script supervisor thought that I was going with something, and then I would have to sit down with the writers and they would be like, ‘Wait, what happened to the scene?’ And I would to have to go through and explain why I couldn’t do certain things.”
“I grew very, very protective of [Wednesday], but you can’t lead a story and have no emotional arc because then it’s boring and nobody likes you. Wednesday is a teenager. When you’re little and you say morbid, offensive stuff, it’s funny and endearing. ‘Aww, you don’t know any better.’ But then you become a teenager; it’s, ‘Now you’re being nasty and you know it.’ There’s less excuse,” Ortega had added.
