-Jenna Ortega. Welcome to the show. -Thank you very much,
Jimmy Fallon. -Thanks for being here.
I appreciate this. It's good to have --
Before we go into "Wednesday," which I can't wait
to rave about, right now, you're in a trailer
for the new "Scream" movie. -Yes, I am.
-And it broke records -- it started --
it went viral, I think. It came out and it did 3 million
views in the first day. This is your second
"Scream" movie. Do you like doing these movies? -I love horror films.
I don't know what it is about, you know, having blood
thrown on your face and running around
screaming bloody murder, but it really is so therapeutic,
so much fun. Everyone who works
on horror sets loves horror. You know,
people do special effects because they grew up
loving gore. The best part about
the "Scream" films is, it really is
such a great community. That cast and crew,
they're my family. And we can never
take anything seriously. So, Ghostface could literally
be in the middle of their monologue,
and we're having to restart takes because
we're laughing so hard. -Oh, really?
-Yeah. It's a mess. -On one of the scariest movies
ever, you're laughing? -Yeah, we could be --
In the fifth one, I was, like, army crawling in the hospital,
and I just would -- I wouldn't lift my face 'cause
I was laughing in my hands. [ Laughter ] -Do you feel like you're
being kind of typecast because you're in that,
and you're in "Wednesday." They're kind of dark.
-It's something about my face. -No.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
I don't know what it is. People love seeing me scared. -No.
-Yeah, I don't know. -You are --
Not only are you stunning, but you can't take your eyes
off of you when I see you. I watch "Wednesday,"
and I told you this backstage. I go, "Oh, my gosh.
You're crushing this." You're phenomenal. It is the second-most watched
series in Netflix history. [ Cheers and applause ] One of only three shows to be
streamed over a billion times. Over a billion. Can you even understand that?
-No. I try not to, actually.
-Yeah. -It's too weird.
-But, I mean, you nail every joke, every delivery.
You're so funny. This is before
you even did the dance scene. I mean, the dan--
Can we talk about the dance? The Wednesday dance?
-Yeah, if you want to. -Yeah, I mean, going into it,
what happened? Did Tim Burton go,
"Okay, I got an idea. You do this, you do that." -Well, I read episode 104
pretty early on. And we didn't know what song
we were gonna be using, we didn't know what
the situation was. Initially,
they wanted a flash mob, but I thought, no,
there's no way Wednesday would be cool with dancing and
encouraging a bunch of people. So Tim and I -- the director,
Tim Burton, and I talked about it a little bit,
and he said, "Yeah, let's not do a circle.
Let's have it be her own thing." And I remember, about a week
before we started -- a week before we shot the dance,
he chose the song, "Goo Goo Muck," by The Cramps. And The Cramps is one of my
favorite bands ever. So I was super excited,
super pumped. It was on my episode 4 playlist. And he came to my trailer
about two days before we shot it and said, "Hey, Jenna, so I know
you said that you wanted to choreograph this yourself --" Because I refused
to see a choreographer. He was like,
"I know you've got it. You've been working on it. I'm not even worried about it.
I trust you." And I said, "Oh, yeah,
you know, it's all so good." And I had not gone over it
at all. [ Laughter ] -You had no plan?
-No. I mean, I was doing cello
that week, fencing that week. I just didn't have time.
-You do a lot in the show. -There's a lot going on.
-Yes. You work hard on this show,
and, like, on top of that, you're, like, gonna choreograph
your own dance? -Yeah. Oh, my God.
I was kicking myself. I felt like such a fool.
I was like -- I'm not a dancer.
I don't do any of that. I have no experience
in that field. And then, yeah,
I didn't sleep for two days. I watched videos of
Siouxsie and the Banshees. -Really?
-Denis Lavant in "Beau Travail." I found archival footage
of goth kids dancing in clubs in the '80s.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ] -Lene Lovich, Nina Hagen, just anything that I could
get my hands on. And then, on the day, I thought,
"Well, all right." -"I'm just gonna do it."
-"Let's just see what happens." -Did you just go super long? Did you do it
like a 20-minute dance? Or is this the step by step, this was exactly
what you planned? -No, I knew there were certain
things that I wanted to do. I paid homage to Lisa Loring,
the first Wednesday Addams. I did a little bit of her
shuffle that she does. And, of course,
they cut out of camera when I did do it,
but it's there, I know it is. [ Laughs ]
-'Cause you did it, yeah. -Yeah.
-Yeah, of course. That's wild. Did you understand
that it would go this viral? It's everything
on TikTok right now. Right now, if you go on TikTok,
it's you dancing. It is.
-No, I didn't, I didn't. And Netflix,
they were telling me, "Oh, you know, Jenna, this is
gonna be a thing on TikTok." And I thought, "Yeah, yeah,
yeah, okay, whatever." Because I figured, you know,
"They're excited. They're getting hyped up,"
and then they were right. -Yeah, sometimes
people are right. -Yeah, they know what they're
doing over there or something. -You're mesmerizing.
You're dazzling to look at. I just go, "Oh, my God."
And you're doing that, and you're just doing
the Wednesday stare, and you're kind of doing that. But then that,
and it's kind of -- You make it cool. And it's one of the kind of
geekiest songs, "Goo Goo Muck." ♪ Wah wah wah ♪ You know, The Cramps, and I go,
"How did you do this?" And it's just -- I don't know. I think we all agree
it's just well done. You just crushed it.
-Thank you. [ Cheers and applause ] -Jenna Ortega.
I want to show a clip. Here's Jenna Ortega in
"Wednesday." Take a look at this. -Winner draws first blood. [ Suspenseful music ] -[ Scoffs ] -It's your decision, Bianca. ♪♪ -Let's see if you bleed
in black and white. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Blade slices ] ♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ] -Jenna Ortega! "Wednesday" is streaming
right now on Netflix. We'll be right back
with stand-up from Mike Feeney, everybody.
Come on back.
