Wednesday star Jenna Ortega says she nearly quit acting before landing her breakout role in Netflix thriller You

Jenna Ortega might now be one of the biggest stars of the big and small screen, but she almost walked away from acting entirely.

“I didn’t know what else I was going to do,” Ortega said on the Big Bro with Kid Cudi podcast. “I’ve never really considered anything else – more-so recently, just out of sake of curiosity and wanting another life experience. But, when I was a teenager, I’d gotten off a children’s show, and I didn’t know what I was going to do. I had to prove myself and meet all these new casting directors who didn’t know who I was.