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Jenna Ortega admitted that her media training on the Disney Channel gave her a distorted idea of her personal limits — and she had to work hard to improve them.
The 24-year-old former child star told Happy Sad Confused podcast: “When I was young and I was on the Disney Channel, they took us to media training, right?
“And they told us, you know, ‘Every time someone meets you, that’s probably the only time they’re going to interact with you, like it’s a very special moment in their life. So be aware of that.'”
“No pressure!” THE Wednesday the star joked.
“It never left me,” Ortega said. “And sometimes I try to give myself grace and I try to have better boundaries.”
Ortega explained how she now views her interactions with fans, saying she evaluates the situation on a case-by-case basis.
“So maybe if I feel like the situation is not so safe or maybe I don’t want to stop and agree to take a photo with a random adult male,” Ortega said. “Kids and things like that, sure. But it’s a lot. And, again, it’s gentle. Some interactions are so gentle, and others are a little more awkward or aggressive or mean. And it’s hard to know what the balance is. But you…I do what I can.”
Ortega has been open about her experience as a child star and revealed in August that she didn’t feel comfortable asking for anything — including food or water — on set because she didn’t want to be seen as ungrateful for the role.
“I didn’t ask for a sip of water,” she recalls. “I would go all day without eating, without drinking, anything, because I wanted so badly not to inconvenience anyone,” she said. Squire.
Ortega added: “Maybe it was my mistake, I wasn’t really taking care of myself.”
When asked about negative stereotypes about child stars, the actor replied, “Is it wrong to say that a lot of them are true? And make of that what you will.”
In another interview this week, she opened up about her experience with obsessive-compulsive disorder, which she was diagnosed with at the age of 7 when she had just started her acting career.
“I had to open the sheet a certain way, open the drawer one way and brush my hair slowly,” she said. Vogueexplaining that she uses therapy, medication and acting to cope.
Aged 13, Ortega played the lead role of Harley Diaz on the Disney Channel sitcom. Stuck in the middle. She also voiced the character Princess Isabel in the Disney animated series. Helen of Avalor.
More recently, Ortega is known for playing the title character in the Netflix series. Wednesdaya spin-off of the 1991 supernatural film The Addams Family.
His other works include the Shout franchise and playing Astrid Deetz, the daughter of Winona Ryder’s Lydia Deetz in Beetle juice.
Her latest film plays the artificial friend Klara in the film adaptation of the bestselling book. Klara and the sun.
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