Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Jenna Ortega is responding to the backlash she received following comments she made about changing her lines on "Wednesday." During a recent interview with Vanity Fair , Ortega admitted she "could have used [her] words better" when it came to describing her involvement in the development of her character, when speaking about changing some of her lines in a 2023 interview.
"I think, oftentimes, I’m such a rambler. I think it was hard because I felt like had I represented the situation better, it probably would’ve been received better," she told Vanity Fair. Her statements are in reference to comments she made during a March 2023 appearance on Dax Shepard's podcast, "Armchair Expert," in which she said many of the "Wednesday" scripts did not make sense to her and that she would change things without consulting the writers room.
'WEDNESDAY' STAR JENNA ORTEGA BRUSHES OFF WARDROBE MALFUNCTION: 'WHO GIVES A S--T' Ortega says she could have worded things differently when speaking about the writers of "Wednesday." (Raymond Hall/GC Images) "There were times on that set where I even became almost unprofessional in a sense where I just started changing lines," she said on the podcast. "The script supervisor thought I was going with something, and then I had to sit down with the writers, and they’d be like, ‘Wait, what happened to the scene?’ And I’d have to go and explain why I couldn’t go do certain things.