Merlina (69%) came to the Netflix platform to dominate and, although she has lost a bit of her power in recent weeks, the madness for Jenna Ortega is still present on social networks. Through a recent press conference organized by Netflix, the young actress talks about the script and her refusal to say a sentence that she did not think was appropriate for her character, demonstrating full knowledge of the heroine.
Produced as a spin-off of Los Locos Addams, the series represents an ambitious production in which Merlina establishes herself as the favorite member of the entire singular group. Ortega, who emerged as a Disney girl several years earlier thanks to her intervention in the series Stuck in the Middle, achieved a solid agreement with Netflix to become the Wednesday of the adventure and the public received it with excellent comments. Her fame reached so far that in a few days s, he amassed millions of followers on Instagram, collapsing global trends and rising as the new icon of Gen Z.
Nobody can deny that Jenna plays an outstanding role in Merlina, with a performance that is very faithful to what we know of her character but also gives her her own touch. The actress got to the point of knowing every trait of the character that she refused to say a line from the script because it did not correspond to the personality of her role (via Cosmopolitan):
"I remember there's a line where I'm talking about a dress and she was initially supposed to be like 'Oh my god I'm going crazy over a dress I literally hate myself'. And I was blown away because that sounded like… It was like a bunch of little things where I felt like we could avoid a lot of dialogue in an attempt to make her sound human.
Going crazy over a dress (the one from the dance and the viral video) didn't seem to Jenna Ortega like something Merlina would do, so she decided not to go through with it. The interview made its way to TikTok and was applauded by fans of the series, who applauded the actress for sticking to the character and not following the ideas of the writers, who allegedly often don't also know the characters they write.
The above resonates a lot with The House of the Dragon (91%), a series that ended up generating negative comments regarding decisions made by characters like Daemon Targaryen. After the final episode aired, countless fans took to Twitter to protest the writers for allegedly not understanding the character and miswriting it; let's remember that in one scene, Daemon physically mistreats Rhaenyra and this was not liked at all by many fans who had been obsessed with the rebellious prince for weeks; The recriminations were not long in coming, arguing that the writers of the series did not understand Fire and Blood (the book on which the HBO production is based) and that they made a mistake by portraying the queen's husband in that way.
As for Merlina, the second season has not started its development but it will certainly arrive sooner or later on Netflix. In the face of incredible success and tremendous numbers, the company has found its new multi-billion dollar IP and will not miss the opportunity to exploit it to the last possibilities. Of course, fans are pleased with the promise of more seasons.
