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Jenna Ortega arrived at the Scream VI premiere last night looking picture perfect and poised, ready for the cameras — for all of five minutes.
Ortega pulled up to the premiere wearing a deconstructed monochrome blazer and shirt dress which was tailored to make it a shoulder-baring minidress, paired with Tiffany & Co jewellery, peep toe heels and a classic red lip.
But Jenna’s dress suffered an almost immediate wardrobe malfunction after she approached fans on arrival to do signings, and a fan’s sharpie appeared to interact with Ortega’s dress, leaving a very obvious blue stain on the bright white fabric. Eek.
Ortega, seemingly unbothered, posed for photos regardless, with the blue stain visible in nearly every shot. Points for being chill, Jenna, when this would make arguably any celebrity totally irate.
That damn pen. pic.twitter.com/7djB7ptZ04
— Arcane 🔪 Jenna Ortega's wife (@Zombi3_cat) March 7, 2023
Jenna is reprising her role as Tara (pronounced “Terror”, yes really) Carpenter in Scream VI after her first appearance in Scream V was met with widespread praise, but also criticism over the lack of character development.
Jenna, who quickly became a fan favourite, has promised more depth for her character in Scream VI. Speaking on the 20 Questions: On Deadline podcast, Ortega said: “[She was] only ever crying and screaming on the floor, so on this second one, I had to interact with my other cast mates and give her some sort of a personality.”
Ortega will be starring alongside fellow scream queen Courteney Cox, who has appeared in the Scream films since their very first outing in 1997, as well as fresh faces like Mason Gooding (a beloved nepo baby, son of Cuba Gooding Jr) and Samara Weaving. There are also a few returning characters, like Hayden Panettiere’s Kirby, and Tara’s sister Sam, played by Melissa Barrera.
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The film premieres this Friday, March 10, and as such Ortega has been doing the media rounds to promote her newest feature. She recently caused a stir during one of these appearances when she discussed her hit Netflix series Wednesday on the Armchair Expert with Dax Shephard podcast and seemed a little upset about the direction of her character.
“Everything she does... everything I have to play, did not make sense for her character at all,” Ortega says. “Her being in a love triangle made no sense.
“There was a line about this dress she has to wear for a school dance and she says, ‘Oh my god I love it, ugh, I can’t believe I said that, I literally hate myself,’ and I had to go ‘No.’ There was times on that set where I became almost unprofessional in a sense where I just started changing lines.”
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She adds later: “I grew very very protective of her [Wednesday] but you can’t lead a story and have no emotional arc because then it’s boring.”
Ortega has been very open about fully embodying the character of Wednesday Addams, and nearly every public appearance since the premiere has seen Ortega in monochromatic get-up, much like her character in the series (who is allergic to colour).
Sadly, this monochromatic colour palette is finally biting back, and a pen stain has compromised Ortega’s two-tone wardrobe. We can only imagine the horrors Wednesday would have planned for that pesky pen-holding fan.