Jenna Ortega Says She Almost Quit Acting Before Landing ‘You’ Role: ‘”It Was a Good Run” Sort of Thing’

By Jack Dunn

Jack Dunn

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Jenna Ortgea said during a recent appearance on Kid Cudi’s “Big Bro” podcast that she was seriously considering giving up acting until she landed the part of Ellie Alves on Netflix‘s “You.”

“I didn’t know what else I was gonna do,” Ortega said. “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 new casting directors who didn’t know who I was.”

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