The Only Line of Dialogue on Wednesday Jenna Ortega Refused to Say

Wednesday star Jenna Ortega is no stranger to standing up to her iconic Addams character and even confronting the writers about the storytelling choices. It turns out there was one particular line of dialogue that Ortega simply refused to say, thinking that it did not work out for her character at all.

This line was supposed to be uttered in episode 4 when Wednesday is preparing for her school dance she famously did not even want to attend. Thing, however, begged to differ and made sure she got the stunning black dress she earlier admired in the shop; Wednesday is so shocked and so visibly grateful to him that she only pierces him with her glance and says nothing before putting the dress on and finally attending the ball.

This was not how the writers viewed it, though. According to the script, Wednesday was supposed to say something along with the lines of "Oh my God I'm freaking out over a dress, I literally hate myself".

Well, not on Jenna Ortega's watch.

"I was blown away because that sounded like… it was just a bunch of little things like that," she explained during a Netflix Q&A. "I felt like we were able to avoid a lot of dialogue in an attempt to make her sound human."

Fans apparently hated the cringe-worthy line as much as Ortega did, agreeing that this would be the most non-Wednesday thing to say.

"This is why she's such an amazing [actress], she truly understands the characters, sometimes apparently better than the writers do," Twitter user RizeMillennial said.

Ortega's performance is perhaps the only thing that received little to no criticism in the series, while the writing got plenty. According to fans, the dialogue could have been a lot better, with people complaining it frequently degraded into "pure cringe" even though some lines were praised as genuinely witty and punchy.

Wednesday has become Netflix's second most-watched series ever, only ranking behind the platform's another horror hit, Stranger Things.