Jenna Ortega

was already building herself a strong career before taking on the role of Wednesday Addams in Netflix’s Addams Family series. However, playing the dour daughter of Morticia and Gomez catapulted her to a new stratosphere, helped by starring roles in the Scream franchise and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. It seems though that playing Wednesday

did not leave the actress in the best position, and in a candid interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Ortega revealed that she became an “unhappy person” following the astronomical success of the series and the sometimes unwanted attention it brought.

“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 feel like being a bully is very popular right now. Having been on the wrong side of the rumor mill was incredibly eye-opening.”

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It is not an understatement to say that Wednesday became one of the biggest and most talked-about TV shows in Netflix’s history. Scoring over 250 million views, over 100 million more than Stranger Things 4, Wednesday was the biggest English-language TV show in Netflix history, and indeed in the world in 2022. For Ortega, being a young woman playing a school girl was one thing that irked her a little. She continued:

“You know, it’s like how you’re dressed in the schoolgirl costume. There’s just something about it that’s very patronizing. Also, when you’re short, people are already physically looking down on you… girls, if they don’t stay as this perfect image of how they were first introduced to you, then it’s ‘Ah, something’s wrong. She’s changed. She sold her soul.’ But you’re watching these women at the most pivotal times in their lives; they’re experimenting because that’s what you do.”

‘Wednesday’ Looks Like It Could Run For Some Time

While Ortega has candidly shared the downside of Wednesday’s success, she did get to explore a Gothic side and does have a lot of gratitude for the opportunities the show has given her. She also dropped a small hint that there could be a lot more Wednesday to come.

“I definitely feel like I have a bit more Gothic taste than I did when I was a teenager. I’ve always been into dark things or been fascinated by them, but I was a Disney kid, and the whole thing is being bubbly and kind and overly sweet. 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.

“I want to be able to give back to [fans]. But I also want to do things that are creatively fulfilling to me. So it’s finding that balance of doing movies that they might be interested in and then doing movies that I’m interested in. [I want roles that are] older and bolder and different. And then I want to be able to line up all of my girls and see something different in all of them.”

Wednesday returns to Netflix later this year with Season 2, more details of which are expected to be revealed during this year’s upcoming TUDUM event.

Source: Harper’s Bazaar