During a recent interview, the actress from 'Wednesday' expressed her desire for young girls not to feel compelled to alter their appearance in order to be considered beautiful or deserving when they see themselves on screen.
Jenna Ortega is sharing her thoughts on resisting the pressures of conforming to beauty norms within the entertainment industry, and her aspiration to encourage other young girls to follow a similar path.
During a recent interview, the actress from 'Wednesday' expressed her desire for young girls not to feel compelled to alter their appearance in order to be considered beautiful or deserving when they see themselves on screen.
In a recent Harper Bazaar interview published on Wednesday, the actress from Scream VI reminisced about the challenges of balancing auditioning with her academic pursuits during her younger years.
As a child actor, there are two jobs that you can get: you’re either the younger version of someone or you’re playing somebody’s daughter — and there were just not many leading Hispanic actors who I could be that for
So a lot of the jobs that I was going for growing up would never work out, because I didn’t look [a certain] way. That was really hard, to hear that something you couldn’t change was what was preventing you [from succeeding]
As a kid, I was always being told what I should and shouldn’t do — which way I should go, what would be best for me.
I thought, ‘I don’t want other young girls to look up at the screen and feel like they have to change their appearance to be deemed beautiful or worthy
Jenna Ortega was last seen in Scream VI and Finestkind in 2023
She will be next seen in Beetlejuice2 and Death of a Unicorn in 2024
After that she will act in Miller's Girl and Trey Edwards Shelts untitled