1 day Ago By Armando Tinoco
Jenna Ortega has ambitious plans for herself and wants to take on a directing role, having worked on a script she has been developing for a decade. In a new interview, the Wednesday star said she has been working on a script that she feels is now the right time to bring to life. “I have a script that I’ve known that I was going to make for almost 10 years.
It’s weird because it’s something that I thought of when I was younger and when I first started out in this field, and it’s only now that I’m actually starting to take the steps to get it made, which is really interesting,” Ortega told V Magazine . “I’m just putting the puzzle pieces together in my head. So I think I needed a few years of that under my belt to understand the order of doing things.
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I just feel that’s the way my brain wants to work and think, and that’s how I even view my acting sometimes.” Watch on Deadline The former Scream star has not directed, but she has been credited as executive producer in titles like Death of a Unicorn and the upcoming season of Wednesday . Ortega is set to star and executive produce in Hurry Up Tomorrow , the thriller directed and written by Edward Shults, in which she co-stars with The Weeknd and Barry Keoghan.
About the projects that she creates in the future, Ortega said, “I don’t want to be in the things that I create in the future, but starting out, because I’ve created more leverage for myself with a name as an actor, I may as well use that as a stepping stone.”.
