{"id":638723,"date":"2026-10-23T04:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/638723\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T04:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:34:12","slug":"ortega-takes-tv-break-after-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/638723\/","title":{"rendered":"Ortega Takes TV Break After &#8220;Wednesday&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/first-photo-wednesday-in-paris-for-season-3.jpg\" data-caption=\"Netflix\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/first-photo-wednesday-in-paris-for-season-3.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"first-photo-wednesday-in-paris-for-season-3\"\/><\/a>Netflix<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWednesday\u201d star Jenna Ortega says she has no plans to do another TV series after \u201cWednesday\u201d wraps on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>The news came during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1a5yy2k_5m8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Happy Sad Confused<\/a> interview with the actress, currently out promoting \u201cKlara and the Sun,\u201d who was asked about whether she would commit to another franchise.  She responded:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually haven\u2019t had a lot of franchise conversations. What I\u2019m meant to do will come and find me. I think after Wednesday, I\u2019ll probably be off the TV for a while. You know I had many years doing [TV]. I was bouncing from show to show as a kid and I want to leave time for new things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ortega\u2019s prior small screen work included such series as \u201cJane the Virgin\u201d and \u201cStuck in the Middle,\u201d but she\u2019s made a successful jump to features including two \u201cScream\u201d films.<\/p>\n<p>Ortega told Esquire in August that the show is \u201ccoming to a head\u201d but there\u2019s been no indication from Netflix if the upcoming and already shot third season of \u201cWednesday\u201d will be its last.<\/p>\n<p>Ortega has several films in the works, including Cathy Yan\u2019s dark comedy thriller \u201cThe Gallerist\u201d and J.J. Abrams\u2019 sci-fi fantasy \u201cThe Great Beyond\u201d, both due out next year.<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/veteran-actor-tom-skerritt-has-died-at-93\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Veteran Actor Tom Skerritt Has Died At 93<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/cancelled-mass-effect-game-trailer-leaked\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cancelled \u201cMass Effect\u201d Game Trailer Leaked<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix \u201cWednesday\u201d star Jenna Ortega says she has no plans to do another TV series after \u201cWednesday\u201d wraps&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[84767,430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-638723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bigslider","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}