Jenna Ortega felt "so scared" when she took a break from acting.

The Wednesday star, 23, took several months off this year and she initially worried about how she would fill her days without a job but she learned how to "entertain" herself and embraced "real domestic stuff ... like cooking" during her downtime.

During an appearance on Kid Cudi's Big Bro podcast, she explained: "I was so scared. I was so scared. I remember the first few weeks I thought: 'OK, I don't really know what to do with my hands. Maybe I should, like, pick up a hobby?'"

However, Jenna was able to embrace her time off and she enjoyed being able to cook after spending so much time away from home while working.

She explained: "I learned so much about what I enjoy and what I don't enjoy. I know how to entertain myself real well now, and I just got to do real domestic stuff that I was missing out on for a while, like cooking. I never got to cook because you're living in a hotel room."

Jenna went on to reveal one of her main passions is reading and she loves going shopping for books - admitting they are one thing she will never clear out of her home.

She said: "I buy a lot of books .. Books I love. I have so many books. And it's so nice, onset when I'm bored, [it's] another way to hear a story. Something that doesn't involve a screen ...

"If I'm going to go out and buy something, you can take me to clothing stores, you can take me to supermarkets whatever, the only place I'm going to buy something is going to be the book store. I already have 10 books that I need to read or whatever but there's really good used books ...

"I really like not knowing anything about an author and going off of a cover occasionally. That's like a love language."

Jenna also revealed she enjoys hunting for bargains in antiques stores while she also collects movie posters.

She explained: "I also really like antique malls and getting little statues and little figures. I like small things. Almost something you could have in your pocket or sit up on a shelf is really nice ...

"I was [also] going to say movie posters. A lot of them have been gifts and I'm not getting rid of them ... They're like these little precious objects to me."