Jenna Ortega Had Covid While Filming Wednesday’s Dance Scene

Reviews of Netflix’s Addams Family spin-off Wednesday have been combined, however there’s one factor everybody may agree on: Jenny Ortega’s unapologetically goofy dance scene was wonderful. Unfortunately, discover I mentioned “could”—your enthusiasm would possibly wane upon studying she filmed the scene whereas having the coronavirus.

If you’ve leapt to the idea that Ortega saved mum about her sickness with the intention to preserve capturing, overtly endangering her co-stars and crew, please leap again. As Ortega revealed in an interview with NME (which was initially printed on November 10, however has gained way more discover over the previous couple of days, together with in Variety), she didn’t know she had covid whereas she was filming till later, though she did know she was sick:

“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.” According to the journal, this was finished based on Wednesday producer MGM’s “strict covid protocols” and “once the positive test was confirmed production removed Jenna from set.”

It’s very unusual to me that these protocols allowed Ortega to maintain filming whereas ready for the check outcomes, however we don’t know what different security measures the Netflix present did or didn’t take to make sure the protection of its different employees. We’ve contacted Netflix to request extra data and can replace this text if we hear again.

Whatever the outcomes, once more, don’t blame Ortega—if she had taken a check and crewmembers have been repeatedly giving her medication, then lots of people on set knew she was sick and saved placing her in entrance of the digital camera anyway. Protocols or not, somebody in cost ought to have identified higher.

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