Jenna Ortega Had COVID-19 While Filming the Iconic 'Wednesday' Dance Scene
Altering her performance.
Believe it or not, Jenna Ortega‘s dance scene in Netflix‘s Wednesday almost could have looked super different. The actor revealed she had COVID-19 while filming the iconic sequence, which altered her performance.
Ortega elaborated on the process. “I choreographed that myself!” she told NME in a recent interview. “I’m not a dancer and I’m sure that’s obvious. I’d gotten the song [The Cramps' 1981 single 'Goo Goo Muck'] about a week before and I just pulled from whatever I could … it’s crazy because it was my first day with COVID so it was awful to film.”
She continued, “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.”
Since the premiere of the series, the dance scene has gone viral online. Fans have often edited it along with Lady Gaga‘s “Bloody Mary,” which the pop star is a fan of.
Stay tuned for more news on Wednesday.
