WEDNESDAY Creators Speak Out About Jenna Ortega’s Controversial Comments as a Writer

As you know, Wednesday star Jenna Ortega She made some comments about the writing of Wednesday’s first season and how she started changing lines in the script without telling the writers. Things that she felt didn’t really work.

Well, the creators of the show Alfred Gough AND Miles Millarwere recently asked about the comments he made and shared their thoughts. As you can imagine, they have been in the industry for a long time, so they handled everything very professionally.

Speaking to THR, Gough said: “It’s tough. We’ve done some of these shows, like Small Villawhich was a huge success from the start. Suddenly, you have these young stars in the spotlight. They’re going to make missteps. They’re going to say things.

“I think you just have to give them grace and know what’s going on. It’s never pretty, but it’s part of the territory. I think we’re at the point where the Internet is going to do what the Internet is going to do. What you don’t want to do is give these things oxygen.”

Gough and Millar have continued to enjoy working with Ortega. They recently worked with her on Beetle Juice Beetle Juice as well as a Wednesday Season 2.

In response to Gough’s comment about their past experiences, Millar went on to say that they appreciate Ortega’s immense talent.

Miller said: “We work very closely with Jenna on the show. Obviously we’ve worked with her on [Beetlejuice Beetlejuice]It’s always an incredibly collaborative and joyful experience.

“We couldn’t be more proud of her work and have welcomed her as a producer on the show this year. She is one of the most talented and hard-working young actresses in the industry and we are very fortunate and proud to have her working with us.”

Miller concluded: “So it is what it is. A show of this size and scope is always going to get people talking. But it’s not our reality or his reality.”

So in the end it seems like everything was blown out of proportion and that everything is fine between the creative team and Ortega.

Jenna Ortega previously reflected on her comments about changing her character’s lines in the Netflix series Wednesdaysaying, “I probably could have used my words better to describe it all. I think, often, that I’m such a charlatan. I think it was difficult because I felt like if I had portrayed the situation better, it probably would have been received better.”

Many Hollywood writers took to social media to accuse Ortega of being “toxic” and “beyond the pale,” and on picket lines, some members of the Writers Guild of America carried signs with slogans like “Without writers, Jenna Ortega will have nothing to hit!”

Ortega continued, “Everything I said felt so amplified… It felt almost dystopian to me,” Ortega, now 21, told Vanity Fair. “I felt like a caricature of myself.”

She went on to share the lessons she learned from that experience, saying, “You’re never going to please everyone, and as someone who’s naturally a people pleaser, it was really hard for me to understand that. Some people might just not like you… and that’s okay.”

Ortega also said that she, too, got “tired of myself last year,” adding, “My face was everywhere… so it’s fair to say that if I opened my phone and saw the same girl with a dumb quote or something, I’d be tired of it, too.”

Wednesday executive producer and director Tim Burton’s World She spoke about working with Ortega, saying that she is “very direct. She’s very hands-on, and I find that very refreshing and beautiful and artistic.”

He also said that Ortega “could lead [the series] if he wanted to. I’ve seen, from day one, that he’s very aware. Sometimes he’s more aware than me.”

Wednesday The second season is expected to hit Netflix in 2025.