In her Harper's Bazaar cover story, Jenna Ortega discusses the challenges she faces amid her sudden rise to fame due to her starring role in Netflix's Wednesday. Despite her commitment to the character, including learning to fence and dance, she struggles with feeling misunderstood and overwhelmed by the attention that comes with success. Ortega expresses the conflict of playing a schoolgirl while wanting to be recognized as a serious actress and describes the pressures and expectations that have affected her mental health and perception of herself.
To be quite frank, after the show and trying to figure everything out, I was an unhappy person. After the pressure, the attention - as somebody who's quite introverted, that was so intense and so scary.
I'm doing a show I'm going to be doing for years where I play a schoolgirl. But I'm also a young woman. There's just something about it that's very patronizing.
I just started changing lines to better capture my interpretation of Wednesday Addams and was almost unprofessional.
After taking on multiple other film roles in quick succession, it made me feel like an actor again.
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