Taylor Ortega Talks ‘Big Mistakes,’ Laurie Metcalf and Finding Comedy in Jersey Roots

Who can blame Taylor Ortega for feeling like a fan while acting opposite her onscreen mother, when that person happens to be Laurie Metcalf?  “I mean, every girl dreams of it,” Ortega says, deadpan but in earnest. “So I’m really blessed to be one of the girls who gets to experience it. Laurie Metcalf is so talented, so funny. She’s someone who performs very actively. She’s very alive, but she also takes her comedy so seriously, but she’s doing something that’s gut-bustingly funny.  And I just feel like I’m the audience member watching something. It’s incredible.” Ortega is making her major project debut opposite Metcalf and Dan Levy in the new Netflix series “Big Mistakes,” created by Levy and Rachel Sennott. The show stars Levy and Ortega as siblings Nicky and Morgan, who accidentally get caught up in a criminal gang after an attempt to steal a necklace for their grandma goes wrong.  When Ortega got an audition request for “Big Mistakes,” she immediately felt close to Morgan.  “She grew up in [New] Jersey, her personality was so close to mine, she’s Italian. And I thought, ‘Wow, it’s a really close match, but who knows?’” she says. Six months after submitting an audition tape,

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