'Wednesday' star Jenna Ortega admits 'child acting is strange' and there are 'times I regret' choosing it

"Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" star Jenna Ortega got her start as a child actor, and admitted that the experience isn't completely normal.

She continued, "I think if I had just stayed growing up in Coachella Valley, I would be a completely different person. I wouldn’t speak the way that I do or approach interactions the way that I do. It’s completely changed my way of thinking and going about life, and when I speak to other child actors, I can pick them out instantly because we all have that — it’s just very specific, like some secret little language or something that we all share. Children aren’t supposed to be working like that. They are supposed to be climbing trees and drawing and going to school."  "Child acting is strange. I see why my parents felt so hesitant about it, because you’re putting a child in an adult workplace."

Ortega was born and raised in California’s Coachella Valley, to an emergency room nurse mother and sheriff father, the middle of six children.