Wednesday’s Jenna Ortega catches heat for filming key scene while sick with COVID
That Ortega was ill during the filming of this scene went viral after being boosted by the social media account PopBuzz–or as it might be referred to in this case,:“this is a bad thing right? we all agree that this is not some ‘persevering through hardship’ moment, its [sic] a why the fuck didn’t she get sent home, she could get horrendously sick or infect others kinda moment,” reads a viral tweet.
It is an actor’s curse to frequently be taken out of context, but the full picture doesn’t look much better for Ortega than the snippet of a quote. In a November interview with , she told the outlet that she’d choreographed the dance herself, adding that “it’s crazy because it was my first day with COVID so it was awful to film.”Crucially, Ortega hadn’t tested positive before she went to set, and production company MGM shared a statement withwere followed and once the positive test was confirmed production removed Jenna from set.”
However, Ortega was experiencing symptoms before she clocked in that day: “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,” she said. “They were giving me medicine between takes because we were waiting on the positive result.
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