Jenna Ortega Covers V Magazine
Jenna Ortega is on the cover of V magazine. The young actress is on the cover to promote her new film, Hurry Up Tomorrow. Highlights from her interview, with costar The Weeknd, are below.
On whether she misses the anonymity that came before acting: “Oh, most definitely. I mean, that was just a few years ago. I’d done some shows and was working in film, but it wasn’t until that show, the day of the week [Wednesday], that just catapulted everything. As grateful as I am, and it was a dream role, it was so nice to have had way less pressure. I love the hustle. There’s something about the actor’s come-up and struggle that I really enjoyed. Sleeping in the cars, driving all around LA for auditions, and waiting for weeks, feeling sick to my stomach that I wasn’t going to get the job I really wanted. The adrenaline rush of it all was so exciting. I don’t know if it’s common, or if you can relate to this, but it kind of feels like you’re perpetually in this loop of anxiety. I hold so much more pressure and weight in my body than I ever did, and I think it’s just kind of the expectation of it all. ”
On leading a cast:” A lot of it is seeing how the people work around you. Cathy Yan is very meticulous and knows exactly what she wants. So we did weeks of rehearsals, a lot of the scenes are oners, which are these long fluid takes, kind of like a play. So we just were working these scenes to the ground, so that when we got there on the day, the only thing that we had to worry about was maybe the lighting, or getting the Steadicam through the crowd of this busy art gallery while this dead body is posted up on a statue. It was more of the chaos that we had to focus on. I felt so lucky to work with people who are so good at what they do that things just kind of flowed. All you could do was to know your lines and know where you’re going to stand, and then the rest was just play. Then everyone was cool to improvise. Use the little space that we had in between certain technical breaks to kind of make each other break or laugh. It just felt like we shot it really quickly. It felt like doing SNL, almost. It was just this, like mess—”
You can check out even more from her interview here.
