The former Disney star is leading the way for a new kind of Hollywood with 'Scream,' 'The Fallout' and upcoming SXSW movie 'X.'
“I remember once that came out, rather than being stalked on the street by children or families, it was middle-aged women,” Ortega says. “[I thought] ‘Oh wow, I’m reaching a different audience.’ You go straight from Disney to cussing and shouting. I don’t think that I had ever been in a world like that before.”
Even once she had booked the “You” role and was shooting the first season, she was worried she’d be dubbed a fraud. “They typically cast 30-year-olds to play teenagers. I was 17, and I figured I wasn’t going to fit in with the crowd,” she says. “And when I got that call, it’s not often that you watch something and then get to become a part of that world later on. So very surreal.”
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