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Jenna Ortega Says She Didn’t Watch Nickelodeon Abuse Doc ‘Quiet on Set,’ but Her Mom ‘Watched Over Me Like a Hawk’ as a Child Actor

But her mom watched "Quiet on Set" and "had seen the way that other children maybe weren't protected or weren't as looked after," Jenna Ortega explains.

Jenna Ortega, 21, began working at age 7 when she was cast as Harley in the Disney series “Stuck in the Middle,” so she’s well-versed in the world of child stars. She didn’t watch the Nickelodeon documentary “Quiet on Set,” detailing the widespread abuse of young stars, but she told the New York Times that her mother did. Ortega added that a lot of child actors emit a precociousness that can be mistaken as maturity, but “It’s almost a mask.

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