With part one of Wednesday Season 2 set to drop on August 6, the hype is really starting to amp up. So, in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Jenna Ortega got candid about how the show impacted her life and career. She also spoke about the challenges that have come with starring in a hit, saying:

The switch came when Ortega was filming the slasher movie X in New Zealand. She had just completed a scene where her head gets blown off, so she was wearing a prosthetic when she sat down for a Zoom audition with Burton, who served as the director on season one of Wednesday.

Jenna Ortega admitted that playing her iconic character in Netflix’s Wednesday was “patronizing” at times—and she is ready to move on to roles that are “older and bolder.”

Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb have always been able to read each other. They reunite to guess each other’s secret words in a game of Get A Clue for a chance to win a swag bag for a plaza fan!

Ortega in the iconic newspaper dress (vintage Dior by John Galliano) worn by Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw to attend Lionsgate’s Hurry Up Tomorrow premiere in May of 2025 (and in one of the show’s key episodes).

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Jenna Bush Hager revealed that she once pranked her dad George W. Bush with a fake tattoo — a Texas Longhorn placed on her lower back. She said that her father believed that the tattoo was real.

We’ve all got this jaded way about us that I don’t think we’d have if we hadn’t started so young,” Jenna Ortega tells Harper’s Bazaar in her new cover story.