Jenna Ortega opens with a crossover in her acting career before landing the role of Ellie Alves in the second season You.
“I didn’t know what else I was going to do. I haven’t thought about anything else, lately, out of curiosity and wanting to know more about life,” said Ortega, 23, about his ambitions on Wednesday, April 8, in the “Big Bro With Kid Cudi” interview. “But when I was a teenager, I got out of a kids show, and I didn’t know what I was going to do, I had to prove myself and meet all these new casting directors who didn’t know who I was.”
He continued, “It turned out to be a good time for me to stop studying.” [it was a] It was a ‘good run’ kind of thing. We have been talking about it for a few months with my team.”
“Also, I think I’ve booked that show Youthen I went on that set, and I loved it and had the best time. I thought, ‘Yeah, there’s no way I’m going to allow this,'” added Ortega, who played Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) neighbor to You season 2.
Before his role in YouOrtega played Disney Channel’s He was stuck in the middle from 2016 to 2018. The show ran for three seasons and 57 episodes. The actress also had a starring role in the 2015 Netflix series Richie Rich television series.
Since YouOrtega is still a rising star because of his roles Shout out 5 and 6 and Netflix Wednesday.
In 2025, the actor remembered that one of his first movie roles was there Iron Man 3 the opposite Robert Downey Jr.but her part was cut before the film was released in 2013.
“It was one of the first jobs I ever had. They took out all my lines,” he said Fun Weeky, noting that his only visible part in the film is “one leg.”
In the discussion of 2024 no The New York TimesOrtega considered working as a child actor in Hollywood after starting to pursue acting at the age of 9.
“Children shouldn’t work like that,” she said. Some of those kids’ parents don’t even take school seriously, so I feel really lucky to have parents who made sure I stayed with friends, made sure I went to public school and wouldn’t let me work unless I had straight A’s and prioritized my sleep and my homework.”
“Children’s acting is strange,” Ortega continued. “I can see why my parents were hesitant about it, because you are putting a child in the workplace of adults.
“I wouldn’t talk the way I talk or talk the way I talk,” he added. “It completely changed my way of thinking and living, and when I talk to other child actors, I can pick them out right away because we all have that – it’s very clear, like some secret language or something we all share.”
