In an interview on Dax Shepherd’s podcast “Armchair Expert” (via Variety), Jenna Ortega discussed how she grabbed the reins when it came to deciding what was best for her titular character. “I don’t think I’ve ever had to put my foot down more on a set in a way that I had to on ‘Wednesday,'” she explained. “Everything that Wednesday does, everything I had to play, did not make sense for her character at all. Her being in a love triangle? It made no sense. There was a line about a dress she has to wear for a school dance and she says, ‘Oh my god I love it. Ugh, I can’t believe I said that. I literally hate myself.’ I had to go, ‘No.'”
She continued, “There were times on that set where I even became almost unprofessional in a sense where I just started changing lines. The script supervisor thought I was going with something and then I had to sit down with the writers, and they’d be like, ‘Wait, what happened to the scene?’ And I’d have to go and explain why I couldn’t go do certain things.”
