The actress of ‘El día del sí’ and ‘You’, of Latin descent, stars in the hit Netflix series about the Addams family
Tim Burton, who was behind such classics as ‘Edward Scissorhands’, ‘Sleepy Hollow’ and ‘Corpse Bride’, succeed in Netflix with his gothic universe with the series ‘Wednesday’, a ‘spin-off’ of ‘The Addams Family’ starring the disturbing eldest daughter of the macabre clan. And the director who had Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter (his ex-wife of hers) and Winona Ryder as fetish actors already has his new muse: Jenna Ortega.
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 from ‘Entre hermanos’, the Disney Channel series in which she played the middle daughter of a large American family of Latino origins who tried to cope with the nuisance of living with six brothers thanks to their original inventions.
Other titles in which he has participated were also aimed at children, such as the animated productions ‘Elena de Avalor’ (also from Disney, in which he voiced Princess Isabel) and ‘Jurassic World: Cretaceous Camp’ , as well as the series ‘Richie Rich’. Though in his curriculum there is room for more adult productions such as ‘You’ (where she played the shrewd neighbor of the protagonist), family films like ‘Yes Day’ (where she put the devoted mother played by Jennifer Garner in trouble) and comedies like ‘Jane the virgin’, where she played the protagonist in her childhood. We have also seen Ortega, who made her debut as a writer with the book ‘It’s all love’ this year at the fifth installment of the successful horror film saga ‘Scream’.
In the Tim Burton series, the actress faces a wave of murders while studying at the peculiar Nevermore Academy, where he is learning to control his 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 media, the actress has always been very clear when it comes to showing their political tendencies 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 Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in the last White House elections was known at the end of 2020.
Long ago, and with only 15 years, had the courage to stand up to the very Melania Trump on the red carpet at the Radio Disney, where he wore a jacket that said: “I care and you should care too & rdquor ;. The garment was a ‘zasca’ to the then first lady, who when she got on the plane for a visit to the detention centers for immigrant minors on the Mexican border wore a trench coat (curiously, from Zara) with the unfortunate phrase “I really don’t I 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. The first lady’s message was shameful, it was out of place and it was totally disrespectful,” Ortega said in an interview, who has called for more diverse characters for Latino actors: “We want to have weight and we need roles that portray us as Positive way. 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 a Latin superhero, for instance. And to have papers like doctors or lawyers. Our origin should not matter & rdquor ;, he has complained on occasion.