“Death of A Unicorn” star Jenna Ortega Have just announced the birth of a career pivot: direction. The actress/producer told us V newspaper that she plans to direct her own original film It has been in work for ten years.
“I have a script that I have known that I would do for Almost ten years“She said.” It is strange because it is something that I thought about when I was younger and when I first started in this area, and it is only now that I actually start taking action to get it. ”
Ortega will make her produces debut on season 2 by the Netflix series “Wednesday.” Ortega has also made his passion for screenwriters publicly known: she Incredibly 2023 That she pressed to write about the first scripts for Hit Netflix series. Ortega told Dax Shepard at that time during his ”Armchair Expert“Podcast that she had to” put down my foot “and”Began to change lines“That she disagreed with the set.
Ortega told me later Vanity that she “could have used (her) words better to describe all this” in particular in the middle of the WGA strike. “I often think I’m such a Rambler. I think it was difficult because I felt I had represented the situation better, it would probably have got better,” Ortega said.
The actress added that the experience of changing scripts led to her starting to produce.
“I think it is natural to be afraid to sign your life and want some kind of agency or want to confirm that your voice would be heard,” Ortega said about joining the series. “I am aware of my position as an actor. I know I’m not responsible … But I think that with someone like Wednesday, who is in every scene, it is only meaningful for that person to be so involved in what happens behind the scenes because she is on the screen every second in the project.”
She continued, “and then I think much of the work I stopped doing, and many of the conversations I had were more of a producer conversations half the time.”
