Jenna Ortega finds herself an unfortunate scapegoat on the writers strike picket line
in which she was not only acting for 12-14 hours a day, but was also trying to fit in cello lessons to make her character more realistic. She was either explicitly or implicitly encouraged to work even while sick, an illness that
. “I did not get any sleep. I pulled my hair out,” she recalled of the shoot at a Q&A for the series. “There’s so many FaceTime calls that my dad answered of me hysterically crying.”Ultimately, though Ortega could have chosen her words more wisely , the entity responsible for all of this is . After all, the notoriously poor conditions for writers at that streamer are surely not conducive to creating the best work, which is one of the issues WGA is protesting. If Hollywood treated its writers fairly, perhaps the
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