Jenna Ortega regularly cried ‘hysterically’ on set of Netflix’s Wednesday

Wednesday star Jenna Ortega has revealed the downside of working on the hit Netflix show, saying she would cry “hysterically” on set.

Jenna Ortega stars in Wednesday on Netflix.

Jenna Ortega, star of the hit Netflix series Wednesday, has shared why her experience filming the show was emotionally exhausting.

The US actress, 20, has opened up about how Wednesday’s filming schedule was so intense that she was often “hysterically crying” on the phone with her dad, Decider reports.

In a Q&A panel hosted by Netflix, Ortega reportedly described showing up to set two hours early to work 12 to 14-hour days, then returning home to take lessons in skills ranging from fencing to cello.

“It was just constantly going,” she said. “And if you could on a weekend, if we weren’t shooting the sixth day that week, it was, ‘All right, well then, we’ll get your lessons in on that day.’”

Jenna Ortega scored her breakout role in Netflix’s Wednesday. Picture: Netflix

Theactress, who was supposed to return for season four of the Netflix thriller You but had to pull out due to Wednesday’s packed schedule, added that she started practising fencing and cello several months before the show’s eight-month shoot in Romania.

She had to switch cello teachers abroad and learn to perform a piece written for two cellos with just one instrument.

“I did not get any sleep. I pulled my hair out,” Ortega said. “There’s so many FaceTime calls that my dad answered of me hysterically crying.”

Ortega also took on the responsibility of choreographing the dance to Goo Goo Muck that launched a thousand TikToks.

She has confirmed that she performed the dance on a day when she had Covid.

Wednesday, starring Ortega, was one of the most streamed shows of 2022. Picture: Amy Sussman/Getty Images via AFP

“I felt like I’d been hit by a car and that a little goblin had been let loose in my throat and was scratching the walls of my oesophagus,” Ortega previously told NME.

“They were giving me medicine between takes because we were waiting on the positive result.”

Timing was apparently so tight that she never got the chance to redo the dance once she finally recovered from the virus.

And things are only about to get more crazy for the breakout star, with Wednesday recently greenlit for a second season.

This story originally appeared on Decider and was reproduced with permission