More than a year after Jenna Ortega angered writers with her comments about Wednesday's scripts — leading some observers to dub her "the new Katherine Heigl," for reasons explained below — the actor said in a new interview that she could have expressed herself better.
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In a March 2023 appearance on Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert, Jenna Ortega said she rewrote scenes from the Netflix series Wednesday on the spot out of protection for the title character. "Everything that Wednesday does, everything that I had to play, made no sense for her character at all," she lamented.