Jenna Ortega Reveals 'You' Inspired Her To Not Quit Acting

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Jenna Ortega is one of the most in-demand actors of the moment, but things were almost very different. The star revealed that she seriously considered quitting the industry when she aged out of child actor roles. But one pivotal series convinced her to keep acting into her adulthood.

“When I was a teenager, I'd gotten off a children's show, and I didn't know what I was going to do,” Ortega said on the April 8 episode of Kid Cudi's Big Bro podcast. “I had to prove myself and meet all these new casting directors who didn't know who I was.”

This would’ve been around 2018, when Ortega’s Disney Channel series Stuck in the Middle ended. At the time, she was 15 years old, and thought that it would be a perfect opportunity to put acting behind her and focus on having a normal high school experience. “It just felt like a good time to call it quits if I was going to,” O...