News culture “I missed something”: Jenna Ortega made sacrifices to become a star in Hollywood, it’s a constant at Disney
Publié le 29/02/2024 à 12:15
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Jenna Ortega undoubtedly has a pretty impressive career. But in life, everything has to be paid for. The American actress had to make a heavy sacrifice to get where she is today.
Jenna Ortega, an impressive career
Jenna Ortega needs no introduction. The young American, only 21 years old, has caused a sensation in many productions recently, whether in front of or behind the camera. Scream, Wednesday, You… It's impossible to miss Jenna Ortega! Especially as a bonus, the young woman actively campaigns for different causes: support for migrants, support for the LGBTQIA+ community, fight against cancer… Despite her young age, the actress knows what she wants and what she doesn't want and that makes her an inspiring figure for many. But maybe you don't know that on top of all that, she also started her career at a young age.
Jenna Ortega was only 10 years old when she began playing one of the versions of Jane Villanueva on the hit series Jane the Virgin. And she wasn't even 14 when the first episode of the Disney Channel series Harley, the Least of My Worries, came out, in which she played the leading role. As a teenager, Jenna Ortega joined the big Disney machine. But if this career started at a young age allowed her to become an important world figure even before she was an adult, it was not achieved without difficulty.
Sacrificing your childhood for Disney
The young woman recently returned to the great sacrifice she had to make to achieve this career: that of her childhood. “Since I was 8 years old, people have called me an old lady,” she told Olivia Rodrigo in The Face. She explains this gap precisely by her career which began very early. For her, it's quite normal to gain maturity quickly “when you work and spend all your days surrounded by a group of adults and you have to speak and work with them in a professional manner.” But if maturing quickly has its advantages, it also has its disadvantages, notably the feeling of having missed out on one's childhood.
In this sense, Jenna Ortega told Teen Vogue that she recognized a little of herself in all the teenagers who have missed an important part of their lives because of Covid 19. “I feel for the kids who missed out on prom, graduation, and the high school experience that they normally would have had… Because I think this is a really important time in life which I missed too.” If we can cringe at the parallel when we know how harsh the pandemic has been on the mental and physical health of young people, it is important to keep in mind that child stars, especially those who have gone through the Disney box , often subsequently endured particularly complicated periods. Orlando Brown, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez or even the first Disney child star Bobby Driscoll… They all paid more or less dearly for the sacrifice of their childhood and/or adolescence. If Jenna Ortega seems to be doing much better at the moment, we hope that this lack will not be felt too much in the years to come.
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