Jenna Ortega, Wednesday’s star speaks out about Gen Z being labelled as ‘unintelligent’

• Jenna Ortega, the actress has spoken out about Gen Z stereotypes.
• In a new interview she spoke out against the stereotypes about teenagers that irritate her.
• “I wish that they were given a bit more credit. We can be smart, sometimes!”

Jenna Ortega, an actress, has spoken out about Gen Z stereotypes. In a new interview, the ‘Wednesday’ breakout star spoke out against the stereotypes about teenagers that irritate her.

The former Channel star addressed the issue when making an appearance.

Jenna Ortega was asked in the Thursday, March 2 episode if there is a Gen Z trope or stereotype about teens in scripts that “gets under” her skin.

Jenna Ortega, unsurprisingly, was quick to point out some common misconceptions about high school students.

Because so much is “accessible to them on the Internet,” the ‘Scream VI’ actress noticed that teenagers are frequently depicted as “unintelligent,” which does not reflect her generation.

She went on to insist, “I wish that they were given a bit more credit. We can be smart, sometimes!”

After “a little over a decade” in Hollywood and admitting that she “look a bit younger” than her peers, the 20-year-old actress also stated that she is tired of plotlines about “bratty” teens who “bad mouth” everything.

Jenna Ortega previously stated that she believes “a lot of” Hollywood executives are still unaware of today’s issues. In an interview with a magazine, the “You” star discussed the difficulties of meeting “expectations” of what a Latina actress should look like or the types of roles she should take on.

“It goes back to the ‘your own worst critic’ thing. Nothing anybody else could say is gonna bother me as much as something I could say,” Jenna said. “When it comes to Latina expectations, it’s so easy for me to brush those off because the people who are in positions of power right now or who have been in positions of power for so long in the industry, a lot of them are out of touch or just not necessarily familiar because they grew up in a very different time.”

“So I think that I personally have so much fun pushing the boundaries and doing all of the things that, you know, the Latina character ‘shouldn’t’ do. We were never the hero of the story or the lead of the story, and I love to be able to push back on that,” Jenna Ortega elaborated.

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