As we prepare to hear her screams in ‘Scream VI’, we review the career of this young actress whom you haven’t stopped seeing dancing dressed as Wednesday. Jenna Ortega has come to stay.
He has the talent, the charisma and the magnetism enough to become the future favorite new star of the industry. Part of the blame lies with TikTok and the accelerated version of the bloody mary of Lady Gaga, but we have been seeing Jenna Ortega dancing like Wednesday Addams on all social networks for months. In Hollywood they have not been slow to find the necessary spaces for the actress to be noticed and, luckily, she is taking advantage of them.
“We all have our favorite soundtracks,” said Jenna Ortega in her presentation at the Golden Globes vindicating Truffaut. “I love ‘Eraserhead’ (D. Lynch, 1977), ‘Blade Runner’ (R. Scott, 1982), ‘The Social Network’ (D. Fincher, 2010) and ‘Jules and Jim’ (F. Truffaut, 1962). If you haven’t seen ‘Jules and Jim’ (one of the 10 classics that are still modern today) I don’t know what you’re doing,” said a 20-year-old interpreter who, seeing herself in the spotlight of the adolescent mainstream , He did not hesitate to score a little artistic by recommending the works of Peter Ivers, Vangelis, Atticus Ross, Trent Reznor and Georges Delerue. He has earned fame, now he is going for prestige. Jenna will be a star.
restless girl
Of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent, Jenna Marie Ortega (Coachella, California, 2002) decided that she wanted to be an actress when she was 6 years old. Her mother introduced her to the world on Facebook and it didn’t take long for her to receive messages from agents willing to sneak her into all kinds of auditions. From McDonald’s ads to testimonial roles in series like ‘CSI: New York’, Ortega first saw herself on the big screen as the vice president’s daughter in ‘Iron Man 3’ (S. Black, 2013). “I have not had a normal lifestyle”, laments the young woman who, after making her debut in terror at the age of 11 in ‘Insidious: Chapter 2’ (J. Wan, 2013), professionalized her hobby by turning to television with the success of ‘Between Brothers’, on the Disney Channel, and Jane the Virgin, in which she played the younger version of Gina Rodriguez. But adolescence and her need to move on made Jenna wary of choosing her next steps, as if she were aware of how easily a child celebrity can become a broken toy.
Terror knocks at your door
“I love horror movies,” he confessed. “I don’t know what it is about having blood thrown in your face and running around screaming, it’s very therapeutic, very fun.” The disturbing ‘You’ was just a first approach to the genre in which he ended up immersing himself in ‘The Babysitter: Killer Queen’ (McG, 2020), ‘Immune’ (A. Mason, 2020) and, finally, ‘X’ (2022), Ti West’s jewel, one of the 50 best recent horror movies to be scared of, in which only she seemed capable of sharing a plane with Mia Goth without being outshone.
Her ability to scream on screen was rewarded when Paramount cast her in ‘Scream’ (M. Bettinelli-Olpin, T. Gillett, 2022), the revival of Wes Craven’s saga about the Woodsboro murderers. Fortunately for those responsible, Jenna Ortega did not cause casualties and now, with Ghostface visiting New York in ‘Scream VI’, one of the best sequels to the Ghostface saga in the ranking of ‘Scream’ films, it reappears on the poster converted in the celebrity of the moment after the international success of ‘Wednesday’ on Netflix, the return of the characters of Charles Addams sponsored by Tim Burton. Jenna Ortega has come to stay.
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