Jenna Ortega is worried about her success: “Being an assertive woman frightens, but I don’t want to stay without a voice anymore”

For a few days he has been at the top of the Netflix rankings for the most loved series (the second season of Wednesday by Tim Burton) and is currently around the world to promote it: Jenna Ortegawith over 38 million followers on Instagram, It is now a superstar.

He has not yet turned 23 years old (he will celebrate them on September 27) and yet he confirms himself to be one of the young promises of Hollywood, a role that flatters and stitches it at the same time. He tells it in the cover service of the September issue of Vogue Mexicoduring which he confesses to the fears of having been an enfant prodige in the showbusiness. “As a girl I was assertive – His words – And this is difficult to send down for many people, because I’m a woman. I have always known what it meant not to have a voice, which still follows me ».

What happened to her in the past, feeling put aside and ignored by the world of entertainment, is part of a closed chapter. He hurriedly learned to be heard and to impose your opinions on the set, especially now that she interprets the firstborn of the famous Addams family on the streaming platform. «I don’t want that situation to ever repeat itself again even if it means making me feel in the world as professional, efficient and kind possible. For most of my career I didn’t know how to express myself, I didn’t even know that I could have done it. I was really young, I didn’t know anything about this environment, perhaps because some work experiences were quite complicated. I closed myself in myself and developed strong insecurities ».

To see her today it would not be said, but she candidly admits her fears and from now on it wants that the environment in which it navigates is “always a collaboration because the best result is achieved from the ideas of a group of people and from a collective vision”.

The actress, who for about ten years has put his hand to his unpublished script, dreams of one day to be able to move on to the direction. Currently it is located in London for a few months, on the set of the new filmstill without title, by JJ Abramswhich sees her on stage with other young stars of her generation, such as Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) and Emma Mackey (Sex education), next to the veteran Samuel L. Jackson. The details are still wrapped in mystery but it is known that it is a fantasy about time travel.

In the meantime he has learned to dose his enthusiasm and, as he said to Latin Times, “now caliber my words carefully”. The reason? “As a child I was very shy and growing up I became somewhat reserved».