INTERVIEW
Jenna Ortega: ‘I thought Wednesday wasn’t going to be watched’
Jenna Ortega very nearly said no to the Tim Burton series that made her a global star at 20. Now appearing in Scream VI, she tells Polly Vernon why she can’t resist embracing her dark side
Dress, £740, Christian Cowan, from Saks fifth avenue. Shoes (throughout), £360, By Far. Socks (throughout), £13 for two pairs, Falke
PHOTOGRAPHS: GREG WILLIAMS. STYLING: CAROLINE NEWELL
The Sunday Times
‘Holy shit!” yells Jenna Ortega, the Disney Channel child star better known these days as Netflix’s incarnation of the adorably creepy style-and-attitude icon Wednesday Addams, straight into my face. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry!” She’s perhaps seven and a half minutes late to our Zoom call — I have waited far longer for celebrities — but she’s mid regret-laden meltdown regardless. Ortega is zooming from the driver’s seat of her car, parked outside her LA apartment, wearing a hoodie, no make-up, hair tied back in a ponytail, with her fringe, sorry, bangs, swooshing about in heightened emotional disarray. “That is, like, the worst! I was trying to do it on my computer — I can’t do it inside my house because there are
