As The Hollywood Reporter reported in August, actress Jenna Ortega recently gave an interview to Vanity Fair magazine. Here she said, which film made her decide to start a career in Hollywood herself.
Enlightenment came at the age of six
Apparently, Jenna Ortega, who was just six years old, watched the film Man on Fire with Denzel Washington. In the 2004 drama by Tony Scott, former counterterrorism expert John W. Creasy becomes the
Bodyguard for nine-year-old Lupita. A friendship develops between the two. When Lupita is kidnapped, Creasy does everything in her power to save the girl.
Lupita was played by Dakota Fanning, then only ten years old. Fanning’s performance
It was Jenna Ortega who got so carried away that she wanted to become an actress herself and says about it today: “It fundamentally changed my existence.” Without the film, she might not have become an actress
Jenna Ortega also wanted to be president and an astronaut
As Hollywood star Ortega explained, that wasn’t always the plan. Jenna Ortega already had very big ambitions in early childhood: “I’m so grateful for my 6-year-old self who wanted to be president and an astronaut.”
Her mother supported Ortega’s acting ambitions. For example, she posted a dramatic monologue by her daughter on Facebook, which ultimately made it into the hands of a casting director from LA.
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Today the actress also sees her job critically:
The pressure on my work is so great that it’s ridiculous, beautiful and terrible – sometimes all at the same time.
Jenna Ortega currently stars as the main character in Wednesday. She has previously appeared in successful projects such as Scream and You and was recently seen on the big screen in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.