With 'Scream' and a starring role as Wednesday Addams, nobody is having a bigger year than jennaortega.
first dropped in mid-October, over 1.2 million people have tuned in to check out the return of Ghostface. This means that over 1.2 million people have seenpick up that fateful phone call — presumably, the one that kicks off each film, ending in a character’s gory demise. Basically, once you hear “Would you like to play a game?” it’s, well, game over.
Unbeknownst to her, a friend of friend was a casting director who saw the clip and encouraged her to have Ortega come in for a meeting. “It was a direct offer that my mom had accidentally gotten herself into, so I think she felt really bad if she didn’t actually at least let me try,” Ortega says now. “It’s entirely her fault.”
Then, as it does with so many young actors, came Disney: In 2016, Ortega scored the lead in the Disney Channel series, which aired for three seasons. Getting the role, Ortega says, was another career milestone. “When I was trying to convince my parents to let me act, I told my mom, ‘I could get on a Disney show if you wanted me to,’ because I think my siblings were watching. We were all watching Disney Channel in the other room.
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