Although she’s considered one of today’s most recognizable leading ladies, Jenna Ortega was ready to throw in the towel after her days as a child actor.
The Emmy nominee recently revealed that she nearly quit acting following her 2016-’18 run on Disney Channel’s Stuck in the Middle, but booking her Season 2 role as Ellie Alves on Netflix‘s You convinced her “there’s no way” she could give it up.
“I didn’t know what else I was gonna do,” she explained on Kid Cudi’s Big Bro podcast. “I’ve never really considered anything else—more-so recently, just out of sake of curiosity and wanting another life experience. But when I was a teenager, I’d gotten off a children’s show, and I didn’t know what I was going to do. I had to prove myself and meet all these new casting directors who didn’t know who I was.”
Ortega continued,
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