Jenna Ortega may be known for her darker roles, but the star wasnt always a fan of spooky things.

During a Monday appearance on the Today show , the Wednesday actor admitted that she was scared of everything as a child, including the original Beetlejuice movie.

Ortega, who now stars in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the highly anticipated sequel to the campy but creepy original 1988 Tim Burton film, told Today co-anchor Hoda Kotb that she had a complicated relationship with scary movies during her younger years.

I was scared of Beetlejuice. I loved the Gremlins but I hated them at the same time, Ortega said. So I was always very confused, but I think I got older and I realized that excitement is the same as fear. So its like, when Im scared, I can just tell myself Im excited.

And you can do the same, vice versa, but I just try to place it somewhere else, because I hated being scared all the time, she continued.