Jenna Ortega went without food all day as child actor

Hollywood actor Jenna Ortega recently made a shocking revelation from her days as a child actor.

The ‘Wednesday’ star said she would go entire days without asking for food or water during film shoots to make sure she was not “in the way of anybody.”

“I really had it going for me as a child ‘cause I can’t think of one mistake I made,” Jenna said. “Is that a terrible thing to say? I feel like I make mistakes now all the time, but as a child, I was so grateful and so excited to be there that my game face was on.”

Part of putting on that game face, Jenna added, was not demanding anything on set. “I wasn’t asking for a sip of water,” she recalled. “I would go all day without eating, drinking, whatever, because I wanted so badly to not be in the way of anybody. Maybe that was my mistake, was not actually looking after myself.”

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Jenna got her acting break with the Disney Channel series “Stuck in the Middle” in 2016 when she was only 13 years old. She later went on to feature in “Wednesday”, “Richie Rich,” “Jane the Virgin,” “You” and “Elena of Avalor.”

When asked about the stigmas surrounding child actors, Jenna said, “Is it wrong to say that a lot of them are true? And do with that what you will.”

Ortega revealed that her acting ambitions were sparked at a young age when she told her parents she wanted to act.

“I was 7 years old when I said I wanted to do this,” Ortega said. “My parents laughed at me when I told them that I wanted to do it, and then that was kind of the root of everything. The motivation. And I never really stopped, because I’m very stubborn. And then I never questioned it.”

On the work front, Jenna has several projects in the pipeline, including ‘Wednesday’ Season 3, ‘Klara and the Sun’, directed by Taika Waititi, as well as J.J. Abrams’ sci-fi project ‘The Great Beyond’. She is also part of the cast of ‘The Gallerist’ alongside Natalie Portman and has been attached to projects, including ‘Single Female’, a remake of the 1992 thriller ‘Single White Female’, and ‘Lily May B’, the upcoming film from French filmmaker Leos Carax.