While actor Jenna Ortega was thrust into the spotlight after being cast as the titular character in Netflix’s “Wednesday,” she actor admitted in an interview that she was “an unhappy person.”
“To be quite frank, after the show and trying to figure everything out, I was an unhappy person,” Ortega told Harper’s Bazaar in an interview published Wednesday. “After the pressure, the attention — as somebody who’s quite introverted, that was so intense and so scary.”
Although Ortega, 22, had been acting since childhood, she rose to fame almost instantly, which quickly made her a target on social media. Fans and critics closely scrutinized her every action and upcoming roles. At the height of her popularity, she described feeling “incredibly misunderstood.”
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