Jenna Ortega has shared some great advice from her cello teacher on the set of Wednesday:When in doubt, channel the confidence of the “average white guy.”
In a recent Video interview with Vanity Fairhe Wednesday The star spoke about how that advice changed her life. “In the show I do now I have to play the cello, and I don’t play the cello,” Ortega explained, after being asked for some good advice she received from a mentor. “I want it to seem real so cellists don’t see it and call me bad names.”
She continued: “My teacher told me that as long as I looked confident in my moves and was strong and stoic and, you know, fully embodied the character, I would be fine. She told me that I just needed to approach everything I did in life with the confidence of the average white man and that changed my life. [That made me] feeling better.”
Ortega added that internalizing the advice also helped her prepare for the Vanity Fair Interview. “I was nervous to even do this because I ramble like crazy,” she admitted. “Like I was wondering what I was going to talk about this whole time. Then I remembered: How would an average white guy do this? And I probably would have shown up with mismatched socks.”
Watch the full interview below. The relevant conversation begins around the 3:15 mark.
With his latest film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Set to hit theaters on September 6, Ortega is currently back in production for season 2 of WednesdayLast year, Ortega hinted that the next installment would “lean toward” terror.
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