Wednesday's Jenna Ortega cast in major new role with The Weeknd
Plot details remain under wraps.
Wednesday’s leading star Jenna Ortega has landed another high-profile role alongside The Batman’s Barry Keoghan and musician The Weeknd.
Little is known about the untitled film yet, other than that it will be directed by Trey Edward Shults, who co-wrote the film with The Weeknd and Reza Fahim, according to Deadline.
Production on the untitled film is well underway, according to the publication.
Ortega has been on a roll of late, led by her popular performance in Netflix’s Addams Family spin-off series Wednesday, which broke Netflix viewing records and sparked viral TikTok trends when it landed on the streamer at the end of 2022, and which has been renewed for a second season.
The star is also set to reprise her role as Tara Carpenter in the upcoming Scream 6.
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Ortega’s busy schedule meant she missed out on the recently-released You season 4, with showrunner Sera Gamble recently revealing that, though they had tried to get her back, filming clashed with her Wednesday schedule.
Ortega appeared in season 2 as Ellie Alves, a teenage friend of the serial killer and show’s unreliable narrator, Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley).
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight about missing out on You season 4, Ortega said: "I was devastated. Easily one of my favourite sets that I've ever, ever been on."
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She continued: "I was so devastated. I miss Ellie, and I've been wanting to go back to Ellie for a long time, but I was in Romania shooting Wednesday.
"I couldn't travel back and forth with the pandemic and everything like that, and when you're committed to a show there's just no way that it could've worked out."
Ortega added: "But that one, that bummed me out. I tried."
Gamble previously told IndieWire of Netflix's You: "We wanted to bring Ellie back and we heard: 'Oh, Jenna is doing some show.'"
However, she didn't rule out a possible return in the future, adding: "It's been just such a pleasure to see Jenna this year. We have ideas for Ellie if her schedule allows her to visit us again."
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