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

> 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. “She called me about it,” Ortega said, before she later added, “She watched over me like a hawk, so I think for her, it was more empathizing and wishing she somehow could have done something to help.”

> “I think for her, it was more pain, because she had seen the way that other children maybe weren’t protected or weren’t as looked after,” Ortega explained. “She just called me saying she was so grateful that things were OK and that she was there to witness everything.”