Jenna Ortega's 'Wednesday' Remarks Are Popping Up In Writers Strike

[stewie_e]

During the WGA strike, writers were seen mocking Wednesday star Jenna Ortega’s controversial comments about the writing on the Netflix hit pic.twitter.com/pzOEUMgsEb
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) May 4, 2023

Some Hollywood writers on strike are mentioning Wednesday star Jenna Ortega, this after her comments about the writing on her Netflix show

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[genbu_no_miko24]

I think she’s kinda pretentious and annoying (goes with the age lol).

I’m sure she did earn some ire from the Wednesday writers for talking publicly but it’s surprising that the ones taking shots are writers from other shows not associated with her. I wonder if they personally didn’t like it or are they friends with the Wednesday writers who probably trash-talked behind the scenes with their writer friends? 👀

This reminds me a little bit of when Katherine Heigl took a shot at the Greys writers during the last strike.

[ahkna]

tbh, Katherine Heigl should have swiped harder because George and Izzie was truly one of the worst things ever written.

[vanouria]

g/i made me quit the show

[ahkna]

I still think that G/I was punishment for TR and Katherine because Shonda had to fire Isaiah. Their storylines were so bad they pushed them out.

[mzgrottesca]

tbh none of her criticisms of the show's writing were untrue though lmaooo I remember she insinuated something about not being a fan of the romantic aspects of the show and... the love triangle for example truly served no purpose to the season (and I wonder how they're going to deal with it now that one of those love interests has all sorts of allegations from women).

[pciam]

Yeah she could have probably worded it better or just not said anything but she’s also 20 and will prob grow out of it.

She also worked long hours on that show and they still had her working when she was Covid positive and that’s more worthy of shit talk to me than her not liking some lines of her script

[thereinventions]

and I wonder how they're going to deal with it now that one of those love interests has all sorts of allegations from women

What?? Another shitty man? Which one is this now?

[ghastly]

Percy Hynes White, the skinny white guy Xavier. (He also was on that show The Gifted.) There's accusations he sexually assaulted multiple women aged 17-20, but the original accusations were removed from Twitter so you can mostly just find videos/screencaps/articles about them from less-than-ideal sources.

[sluttyroyals]

I don’t trust the intentions of THR when it comes to anything related to the strike. This felt like a deliberate move against the strikers by using the stans against them, and it seems to have worked.

[bodylikemind]

yepppp

[trendsnational]

PERIOD they’re mouth pieces for studios, fuck them!

[aciren95]

Was Jenna Ortega wrong though? The original line she mentions in the blurb was cringe af and the romance triangle was stupid.

I know she seems overexposed at the moment, but calling her out specifically for her IMO justified criticisms read as a little racist… Like why choose to go after the young up-and-coming Latina? It doesn’t sit well with me.

This is the blurb I’m referring to - try and tell me she’s wrong lol:

“She added: “I don’t think I’ve ever had to put my foot down on a set in the way that I had to on Wednesday. Everything that she does, everything that I had to play, did not make sense for her character at all. Her being in a love triangle made no sense. There was a line about a dress that she has to wear for a school dance and she said, ‘Oh my God, I love it. Ugh, I can’t believe I said that, I literally hate myself.’ And I had to go, ‘No.'”

[two_haiku]

Yeah I remember there have been a lot of female writers and songwriters who never get paid when they would otherwise be treated as paid collaborators for their actual role. Pretty sure I learned that from ontd somewhere. Of course if it’s a woc like a Latina its even less power.

[pseudonygma]

On a show with rotating writers for every episode, actors should act as collaborators because they're the only ones who interacts with the work of every writer, so of course they'd be the expert on their own character's lore. She's not fighting them because she wants to force her own fanfic into the show, she's fighting for the integrity of the character she's portraying.

It's like Elizabeth's Olsen case when the writers for Doctor Strange had no idea what was happening on Wandavision.

If neither of the actresses cared about their work, they wouldn't be fighting the writers. And to that end, the director failed the hardest for not staying on top of the scripts (unless I'm wrong and it's a producer problem); the actors are not being paid to keep the scripts cohesive.

[two_haiku]

I haven’t seen the show or read anything about the strike so I’m pretty ignorant on the topic. Idk if she needs to be paid more, but I know authors don’t like sharing credit with people. If she’s making that many changes she should get credit, but then they would probably have to pay her more. Anyway why do all these males get to hog the credit, power, and pay all the time. It kind of reminds me of how Kathleen Kennedy has done so much for Star Wars l, but whenever anything goes right, people credit the men and whenever things go wrong they credit her. She was the one who made the two male producers who get all the credit to work together. And she had to probably do that because they wouldn’t agree to share credit otherwise.

[funhouse]

if i were jenna i wouldn't be too proud of the replaced dialogue either