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my name is Jenna Ortega and this is the wired autocomplete interview [Music] I'm very excited I love props [Music] is Jenna Ortega is General Ortega related to Gina Rodriguez unfortunately no people might be asking if I'm related to Gina because I play the younger version of her and Jane the Virgin it was one of the first jobs that I ever did and I also think people always love when people see each other in projects that are related and they're actually related it's like a nice fun fact I'm giving no one that satisfaction with this answer is General Ortega playing Wednesday Adams I actually am I've never played someone that has been portrayed before and especially so flawlessly it's weird to do something that people have already created expectations and ideas of and still try to do something different that doesn't stray too far from the character but also puts her in a different world and atmosphere there's a lot of pressure I think it's General Ortega a Libra yes I am and that's about all I could tell you I don't know much about horoscopes but living in La I do know that I'm Libra and I have been told you're such a Libra and we're apparently really indecisive and I am is Jenna Ortega and Maddie friends I'm assuming they're talking about the beautiful wonderful baby angel face Maddie Ziegler and the answer is yes she's one of my greatest friends ever she was somebody that I instantly clicked with we did a movie called The Fallout a couple years back and um I feel like Maddie and I are the same person in different fonts she's such a weirdo and I'm a weirdo and like the uh used to perform autopsies on little animals when I was younger like little lizards that I found that were dead in my backyard she's weirdo in the sense that she breaks out into characters or movements or make faces always comes in at the perfect time her comedic timing is so underappreciated she she makes me laugh we have a good time we're really weird together Jenna Ortega who does Jenna Ortega play in you I play um Ellie and I'm obnoxious I'm in his business way too much I'm definitely in in La she's also very creative and she's a bit of an artist and I see directing in her future and she does as well does Jenna Ortega do her own stunts yes I love to I give stunt coordinators such immense anxiety I will throw myself on the floor off a wall I'll drive cars at 90 to 100 miles per hour with stunt breaks that I've never used before in my life why is Jen Ortega in New Zealand shooting that film X and I I was there for maybe about three months I was only in the North Island we shot in Wellington I love that I I genuinely would move there I love their appreciation for their culture of the Maori people and how they make conscious effort to keep it alive and also some of the sweetest people I've ever met there's people that I met during that that short shoot that I I still am in contact with to this day does General Ortega survive in x the movie's been out long enough I get a gunshot to the Head yeah I just had to lay in the corner Dead with a prosthetic on my face that gave me a cut and it was funny because when I met Tim Burton for my Wednesday audition I had just finished doing that so I had stage blood and glycerin sweat in my hair and a massive cut on my face and had been up for over 24 hours I got on the zoom and he actually left it made me laugh I thought it was I thought it was indeed what does General Ortega look like now I look like Michael Caine in a general Ortega scramble suit what is Jenna Ortega what is general Ortega first movie it was a movie called afterwards with Marsha Gay Harden and she plays the suicidal librarian who goes to Costa Rica and she falls in love with a man there who has a daughter and I am that daughter it also was my first time on a set so it's learning what a gaffer is and what a DP is and what this color tape they put on the floor is supposed to mean oh you want me to stand there you want me to do whatever I was just kind of a sponge I was just taking it all in for the first time what is general Ortega foreign what is general Ortega new movie it could either be a film I did a couple months ago called finest kind with actors Toby Wallace Ben Foster Tommy Lee Jones or it could be the second installment of the reboot of the screen franchise Scream Six sixum is what I'm calling it and that will be out in March in theaters next year what is general Ortega doing now this interview this is what I'm doing right now I just finished a film in Atlanta called Miller's girl and yeah now I'm just promoting this this this Netflix show it's called Wednesday oh it's such a cruel world how General Ortega how is Jenna Ortega it's been a long time since someone asked me that it's um I just refer to myself as it truthfully speaking I'm in a little bit of a better place than I was in in the beginning of the year and that's a that's a really wonderful feeling and I've recently worked on jobs that I had very memorable experiences on so I'm I'm very fortunate I'm I'm a very privileged girl how can I meet Jenna Ortega I'm going to a Comic-Con later this probably won't be out before then but I walk a lot maybe I'll be on the street how did Jenna Ortega become an actress I begged my mom for years I first wanted to start acting when I was six years old my parents said no way in hell one day my mom got me this monologue book that she got from Barnes and Nobles to shut me up like here play and um I did a dramatic monologue for her where I was hysterically crying and she didn't know where it was coming from or what I was talking about and then I told her this is from the monologue book that you got me this is this is what you told me to do she had me do it again and she put it on her Facebook and put uh my little drama queen whatever and I guess an old friend of hers from high school was good friends with a casting director so she said okay just for a little bit and now I'm 20 years old and I've been doing it for over half of my life how old was Jenna Ortega and stuck in the middle I was 12 I want to say and I finished it when I was 16. it doesn't even feel like it was a part of my lifetime I feel like I'm a different person every day but definitely every two years it's an entire shift something that my friends even acknowledged where my music tastes a different style whatever how tall is Jenna Ortega I'm six foot four I've got my head in the clouds now I'm actually I'm I'm five foot one or maybe a touch less but I I think that's what I am that's what I say is General Ortega vegan I was vegan for a really long time um but I stopped being vegan when I went to Romania to shoot Wednesday actually because the food is very different there and I don't think that I was meeting my nutrition requirements so I started eating fish again so I'm currently pescetarian can General Ortega sing poorly I've I've sang for jobs before in the past and and I'm happy to but I would never want to make a career out of it I would love to be a musical composer I'd love to put out neo-composing albums or things like that very ambient noise can General Ortega Play The Cello actually I learned to play the cello 4 Wednesday I started working on the cello about two months before we started shooting I probably couldn't play too well now just because I've been away from home so much uh working and it is something that I want to continue to pursue I have immense respect for anybody who plays the cello I think it's such a delightful instrument can General Ortega dance if you want me to I'm not against it I love a good time I love to dance I love to go out and dance and do it with friends and as someone I love music I think there's so much to be found in music and you learn a lot not only about your own personal taste and how far you're willing to to extend yourself but then also about different cultures and what is celebrated in other places in the world and I think that that's a really beautiful thing is General Ortega Kenny Ortega's daughter Kenny and I actually talked about this we met at an event a couple of years ago Kimmy Ortega is an incredibly successful choreographer and director and is very big in the musical scene I would love to be related to him I think we're making jokes about him possibly being a cousin or an uncle but again I only met him once so I feel a little weird calling a stranger uncle this is definitely one of my preferred methods of interviews I think so thanks for asking really weird and sometimes basic questions [Music]

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Length: 8min 23sec (503 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 17 2022