Jenna Ortega is known to a large audience, especially since her leading role in the Netflix hit Wednesday. The American made her choice of career at a young ageas she now explained. A very specific Denzel Washington film was responsible for this.
Jenna Ortega wanted to become an actress because of Man Under Fire
In the larger Vanity Fair interview, the actress talked about making the Tony Scott film Man on Fire with Washington seen at the age of six In the film, the action star plays a bodyguard who has to protect the little daughter of a wealthy family and fails in his job.
According to Ortega, it was primarily the then 9-year-old Dakota Fanning at Washington’s side that inspired the Wednesday star to pursue her current career. “the course of their entire existence” changed.
Watch a trailer for Man on Fire here:
Man on Fire – Trailer (German)
Her parents laughed at her for it at first, but then her mother posted a video of Ortega performing a dramatic monologue on Facebook. The clip reached a casting director and led to the future Wednesday star starting to audition.
After mini-roles in which she played, for example, Victim in a CSI episode From 2013 onwards, she landed larger film roles such as in the Marvel blockbuster Iron Man 3. She then had her breakthrough in 2016 as Harley Diaz in the Disney series In the Middle.
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When is Wednesday Season 2 with Jenna Ortega coming to Netflix?
An exact start date for the new Wednesday episodes is not yet known. Season 2 will most likely sometime in 2025 get a Netflix subscription.
You can next see Jenna Ortega in the cinema from September 12, 2024. She will then play a leading role in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice, the sequel to the morbid fantasy cult from 1988.