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Jenna Ortega Just Revealed Why She Fought with Writers on ‘Wednesday’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Can it or take
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Speaker 1: a certainly manage to create a memorable interpretation of the
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Speaker 1: iconic Adams family daughter Wednesday Adams in Netflix's hit show Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: But in an interview on The Armchair Expert podcast, she
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Speaker 1: revealed that figuring out exactly who that character was led
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Speaker 1: to conflicts on the set with the show's writing team.
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Speaker 1: She says, there were times where I even became almost unprofessional.
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Speaker 1: I just started changing lines. I had to sit down
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Speaker 1: with the writers to explain why I couldn't go do
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Speaker 1: certain things. I grew very, very protective of Wednesday. You
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Speaker 1: can't lead a story and have no emotional art, because
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Speaker 1: then it's boring and nobody likes you. When Wednesday is
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Speaker 1: little and says morbid, offensive stuff, it's funny and endearing.
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Speaker 1: But when she's a teenager and it's nasty, she knows it,
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Speaker 1: there's less of an excuse. Jenna's input in creating a
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Speaker 1: three dimensional and well rounded lead character proved valuable. It's
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Speaker 1: Netflix's second most popular English language show of all time.
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Speaker 1: Wednesdays on Netflix, and season two is expected to arrive
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