Tim Burtonwho was behind classics such as ‘Edward Scissorhands’, ‘Sleepy Hollow’ and ‘The Corpse Bride’, gave Netflix a hit with his gothic universe with the series ‘Wednesday’, a ‘spin-off’ of ‘The Addams Family’ starring the disturbing eldest daughter of the macabre clan. The director who had Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter (his ex-wife) and Winona Ryder as fetish actors already has his new muse: Jenna Ortega.
In the wake of terror, but now on the big screen, Jenna Ortega is back in the spotlight for her participation in the teen horror franchise ‘Scream‘, which after the success of the fifth installment of the saga created by Wes Craven about the serial killer with the ghost mask, has cast her again as the lead along with veterans like Courteney Cox.
Scream V raised about 140 million dollars worldwide last year, and the new installment suggests that it will break all box office records thanks to the momentum of ‘Wednesday’.
At just 20 years old, the young actress born in California (USA) and Puerto Rican and Mexican descent He already has many tables in Hollywood, where at the age of 10 he had his first appearances in series such as ‘Rob’ and ‘CSI: New York’.
But the role that made her known was that of the witty Harley of ‘Between brothers’the series of Disney Channel in which she played the middle daughter of a large American family of Latino origins who was trying to cope with the nuisance of living with six siblings thanks to her original inventions.
Other of the titles in which he has participated were also aimed at children, such as animation productions ‘Elena of Avalor’ (also from Disney, in which he voiced Princess Elizabeth) and ‘Jurassic World: Cretaceous Camp’as well as the series ‘Richie Rich’. Although in his curriculum there is room for more adult productions such as ‘You‘ (where she played the shrewd neighbor of the protagonist), family movies like ‘The day of yes’ (where he put the dedicated mother played by Jennifer Garner in a bind) and comedies like ‘Jane the virgin’, where she played the protagonist in her childhood. Ortega, who debuted as a writer with the book ‘It’s all love’ at the beginning of last year, has also been seen this year in the fifth installment of the successful horror film saga ‘Scream’.
In Tim Burton’s series, the actress faces a wave of murders while studying at the peculiar Nevermore Academy, where she is learning to control her psychic abilities. The case will be related to a supernatural mystery in which her parents were involved 25 years ago.
Happy for Biden’s victory
On social networks, the actress has always been very clear when it comes to showing her political leanings and support for immigrants. “Something beautiful about 2020! I’m so proud of America, thank you to everyone who stepped up when their country needed it. This is what happens when we come together and make our voices heard. Love trumps hate once and again”, she wrote excitedly on her Instagram profile when at the end of 2020 the victory of Joe Biden on Donald Trump in the last White House elections.
Some time ago, and at only 15 years old, he had the courage to stand up to Melania Trump herself in the Red carpet from Radio Disney, where he wore a jacket that read: “I care and you should care too.” The garment was a ‘zasca’ to the then first lady, that when she got on the plane for a visit to the detention centers for immigrant minors with the Mexican border she wore a trench coat (curiously, from Zara) with the unfortunate phrase “I really don’t care, do you?” The indignation in the networks was enormous despite the fact that the president of the country, Donald Trump, later said that the message was directed at the media.
“I felt that it was something necessary out of respect for those poor families, for the pain of those separated parents and children. It’s something that breaks my heart. It is terrible that it happens in this country. He message of the first lady was embarrassing, it was out of place and it was totally disrespectful,” said Ortega in an interview, who has called for more diverse characters for Latino actors: “We want to have weight and we need to papers portray us in a positive light. Many times they give us the roles of maids or drug traffickers and that hurts me because we are much more than that. I want Hollywood to show it. It’s time to see one latin superhero, For example. And to have papers like doctors or lawyers. Our origin should not matter ”, she has complained on occasion.