Jenna Ortega ‘Would Go All Day’ Without Food or Water as a Child Star to Make Sure She Wasn’t ‘In the Way of Anybody’

Jenna Ortega recently told Esquire that, as a child actor, she would go entire days without asking for food or water to make sure she was not “in the way of anybody.” “I really had it going for me as a child ‘cause I can’t think of one mistake I made,” Ortega said. Part of putting on that game face, Ortega explained, was not asking for anything on set. “I would go all day without eating, drinking, whatever, because I wanted so badly to not be in the way of anybody.” When asked for her take on the stigmas surrounding child stars, Ortega quipped, “Is it wrong to say that a lot of them are true?