Wednesday actress Jenna Ortega is underneath hearth after seemingly exposing cast and crew to COVID-19 while filming an iconic scene from the hit Netflix collection.
In the memorable second from episode 4, the 20-year-old might be seen dancing in character as Wednesday Addams – and the scene has since gone viral on TikTok.
Speaking to NME, Ortega stated she was proud she acquired by that self-choreographed scene, given she was battling COVID-19 on the time.
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“I choreographed that myself!” she advised the British journal. “I’m not a dancer and I’m sure that’s obvious. I’d gotten the song [The Cramps’ 1981 single Goo Goo Muck] about a week before and I just pulled from whatever I could… It’s crazy because it was my first day with COVID so it was awful to film.”
“Yeah, I woke up and – it’s weird, I never get sick and when I do it’s not very bad – I had the body aches. 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 esophagus. They were giving me medicine between takes because we were waiting on the positive result.”
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Although the actress wasn’t testing constructive for the virus on the time of filming, she has nonetheless acquired an onslaught of backlash from her revelation, with many social media customers lashing the star for probably exposing the lethal virus to her cast and crew on the Tim Burton-directed collection.
However, Wednesday’s manufacturing firm MGM stated in an announcement that “strict COVID protocols were followed and once the positive test was confirmed production removed Jenna from set”.
Meanwhile, followers imagine Ortega had no selection however to work while feeling underneath the climate because the present should go on.
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“This is a bad thing right? we all agree that this is not some ‘persevering through hardship’ moment, its a why the f–k didn’t she get sent home, she could get horrendously sick or infect others kinda moment. like the details are that she was waiting for a test while filming and it did come back positive but SHE SHOULD HAVE STILL ISOLATED WHILE WAITING FOR A TEST, Tim Burtons f–king artistic vision aint worth dead people.”
“Yes, this is a very bad thing. It was dangerous, unethical, and extremely selfish thing to do, both on her part, and on the part of the directors and producers,” they tweeted.
“There’s absolutely no positive way to spin an actress knowingly exposing hundreds of cast members and crew to COVID.”
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