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Jenna Ortega revealed she came close to throwing in the proverbial towel when it came to her acting career.
The Wednesday star, 23, admitted to Kid Cudi on his Big Bro podcast this week that she seriously considered quitting show business before landing her role in the hit Netflix show You.
"I didn't know what else I was gonna do," she told the musician. "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 casting directors who didn't know who I was."
The Beetlejuice Beetlejuice actress continued, "It just felt like a good time to call it quits if I was going to. I was starting high school, and 'it was a good run' sort of thing. We had talked about it for a few months with my team. And then, I think I booked that show 'You,' and then I went on that set, and I loved it and had the best time. I thought, 'Yeah, there's no way I could let this go.'"
In 2019, Ortega landed the role of Ellie on season 2 of You, playing the downstairs neighbor of Penn Badgley's character, Joe. Prior to that, she had starred in the Disney Channel show Stuck in the Middle, as well as Jane the Virgin.
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