Wed: Why did Jenna Ortega initially turn down the role?

Wed: Why did Jenna Ortega initially turn down the role?

Wednesday: Jenna Ortega’s revelation

We can blame many things on the Netflix series Wednesday envisioned by Tim Burton but not the choice of its lead actress. Indeed, the young actress Jenna Ortega bursts onto the screen in the skin of the daughter of Morticia and Gomez Addams. About her Her incarnation of the young gothic heroine pushed her to star rankespecially for the dance scene in episode 4, in which he gave us an unforgettable dance that we will never get tired of seeing again:

However, the 20-year-old actress has hardly ever acted Wednesdayas he recently confided in an interview for The Times UK.

Therefore, he turned down the role several times:

I saw the mail for the casting, I wasn’t interested. I had already done so much television in my life that what interested me was cinema. I wanted to find my place, I had only been acting in films for three or four years (…) I was afraid of locking myself up in TV again and that it would stop me from doing what I really wanted.

But the presence of Tim Burton made him reconsider the proposal:

He’s such a legend (…) and then we got along really well

Self Wednesday it was a real hit all over the world, Jenna Ortega really didn’t expect it. She also thought that the series would be a failure :

I thought no one would watch (…) that there would be a little lost nugget on Netflix that would appeal to a few people

Source: Cine Serie

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