Wednesday, the new series of Tim Burton, is still on the podium of the most viewed series ever on Netflix, despite being uploaded to the streaming platform in November 2022. This certainly allows us to realize even better how successful the show dedicated to Wednesday Addams has achieved. Since it came out it has recorded record numbers: Wednesday he even beat Stranger Things as Best Netflix Debut, having gotten 341.23 million hours viewed in the first week. The big reveal of Wednesday however it was Jenna Ortega, who was able to perfectly step into the shoes of an already iconic character. The actress had already made her debut in a Disney Channel series and starred in the second season of Youbut thanks to the Netflix series she has become a real star.
The actress of Wednesday he talked about his absurdities related to a scene he made with his mother and which the woman posted on Facebook.
Now that she has become famous thanks to the Netflix TV series, everyone wants to interview Jenna Ortega. Lately YSBnow replayed an interview he did five years ago with the young star, before he achieved success with Wednesday. Jenna Ortega in this video she tells how she approached acting and how she convinced her mother to allow her to take this path. She recalled that at the age of six she saw it on TV Dakota Fanning act alongside Denzel Washington in Man on Fire – The fire of revenge e she decided she wanted to be an actress and become the Puerto Rican version of Dakota Fanning. She therefore repeatedly begged her parents to allow her to act, but they – as much as she insisted – remained absolutely against the idea. In the end her mother to please her gave her a book of monologues, hoping thus to silence her requests. One day the mother asked Jenna Ortega to recite one of the monologues from the text and was amazed by the girl’s convincing performance. The star of Wednesday he said:
“I gave her a dramatic monologue. Where I was crying hysterically and all. She didn’t understand. She didn’t know how, why I was doing it. Where did all that hysteria come from. Or what I was talking about. I said to her then ‘This piece is from the book of monologues you gave me. I did what you told me to do.”
The woman, amazed by her child’s natural talent, he therefore decided to film it and post the video on Facebook, accompanying it with a nice caption: “My little drama queen“. At that point luck began to smile on the young woman Jenna Ortega, because the video was seen by a friend of the mother who knew a casting director. The woman contacted the mother of Jenna Ortega e he asked her to introduce the surprisingly talented little girl to the casting director. The rest is history: the actress of Wednesday began appearing in a few commercials, until 2016 when he debuted in a lead role in Stuck in the Middle.
