LOS ANGELES — Jenna Ortega is certainly one of TikTok’s greatest stars. But you received’t catch her utilizing the app.
Ahead of Tuesday’s Golden Globe Awards, the 20-year-old actor revealed that she “can’t be on” the Gen Z-facing platform and doesn’t make a behavior of scrolling via movies re-creating her viral “Wednesday” dance. Her kooky choreography from the primary season of the hit Netflix sequence has been extensively shared and imitated on social media — particularly TikTok.
“I can’t look into all of that stuff,” Ortega informed Entertainment Tonight on the Golden Globes purple carpet in Beverly Hills. “I think, good or bad, [TikTok is] probably not a healthy place to be.”
It’s value noting that the rising scream queen does have a verified TikTok account and boasts greater than 19 million followers on the platform. However, her web page solely has one publish: a humorous face-washing tutorial uploaded final yr and sponsored by Neutrogena.
Before “Wednesday” premiered on Netflix throughout Thanksgiving week, Ortega didn’t anticipate her jerky jig to the tune of the Cramps’ “Goo Goo Muck” turning into an web sensation.
“Even that, I still can’t believe,” she informed ET.
“Some of the moves I planned, some of it was improv. That was one of the scenes that I stay awake at night thinking about because I thought there was so much that I should have done and could have done. So the fact that anybody has shown any bit of appreciation or … tried it themselves, it’s not fathomable to me.”
Late final yr, Ortega and the inventive group behind “Wednesday” got here beneath scrutiny after the sequence lead admitted that she filmed the well-known dance scene whereas sick and ready for a COVID-19 check end result — which got here again constructive. Ortega informed NME in November that she wakened feeling ailing on the day of the shoot and was given medication between takes.
MGM Studios, which dealt with manufacturing on “Wednesday,” beforehand mentioned in an announcement that “strict COVID protocols were followed and once the positive test was confirmed production removed Jenna from set.”
Before and after the COVID-19 revelation, Ortega acquired rave critiques for her chilling efficiency as Wednesday Addams and for the showstopping dance quantity, which Los Angeles Times TV critic Lorraine Ali deemed “one of the top television moments” of 2022.
The former Disney Channel darling additionally scored a Golden Globe nomination for her deadpan flip in “Wednesday,” in addition to a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.
“I definitely feel like there’s been a shift in my life, and … a shift in energy and change,” Ortega informed ET. “It’s definitely a new time in my life. So it’s been a bit of an adjustment.”
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