Natalie Portman The Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue 2024 I’m still making my way through the profiles in the Vanity Fair Hollywood issue that dropped yesterday but let me just tell you the first two I read: Lily Gladstone and Greta Lee. We’ll come back to that in a minute after we talk about the cover. The By Lainey • Feb 22, 2024 01:34 pm
Equality Issues Emmy Rookies Three first-time Emmy nominees this year include Jenna Ortega, following Patty Duke as the second-youngest nominee for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series; Dominique Fishback, for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series/Anthology/Movie; and Bella Ramsey, for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Though Ramsey identifies By Sarah • Jan 16, 2024 08:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jenna Ortega back at it Back in July, Jenna Ortega was incongruously dressed for fall, filming scenes for Beetlejuice 2 before the SAG-AFTRA strike went into effect. Now that the strike is over, she is back on set—which has relocated from Vermont to Massachusetts—and this time, thanks (“thanks”) to the nearly four-month delay, By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 11:16 am
Gorgessity Global Stars and Teen Dreams at Dior Sarah posted about Anya Taylor-Joy yesterday getting ready for the Dior presentation during Paris Fashion Week. Anya was just one of many big names at the show. And like all the other luxury fashion houses, Dior is engaging with stars from East and Southeast Asia to promote the brand because By Lainey • Sep 27, 2023 10:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jenna’s last day Fresh off her first Emmy nomination, Jenna Ortega was filming a scene for Beetlejuice 2 this week in Vermont (in the same town where the original film was made in 1987). She’s playing Lydia Deetz’s daughter, and she’s been working all summer along with Tim Burton, Winona By Sarah • Jul 14, 2023 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Beetlejuice…Beetlejuice… For many years now, I have refused to believe in the possibility of Beetlejuice 2, but now, it seems, it is finally happening, it’s real this time. According to Warner Bros. Discovery, Beetlejuice 2 starts filming in London TODAY, with Tim Burton directing, Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder returning, By Sarah • May 10, 2023 01:48 pm
Met Gala 2023 Met Gala Thom Browne(s) It was a big night for Thom Browne at the Met Gala. He dressed: Bella Ramsey, Olivia Rodrigo, Baz Luhrmann, Teyana Taylor, Jenna Ortega, and Janelle Monae. Good luck picking the “best”! It’s all down to a matter of personal taste. For example, for me the best Thom Browne By Sarah • May 02, 2023 03:35 pm
TV Updates Jenna Ortega has good taste Jenna Ortega has had a huge year. She’s a Gen Z Final Girl—Scream VI opens this week—she broke out as the new Wednesday Addams—and she’s so good that even people who don’t like the show, like me, fully support her as Wednesday—she stole By Sarah • Mar 09, 2023 11:09 am
SAG Awards 2023 The Jenna & Aubrey Show The next time I’m asked to give a bunch of young hopefuls advice, I am going to cut to the chase and give one two-pronged directive about how to succeed in this business: If you have a niche or a thing – like if you become popular for a particular By Duana • Feb 27, 2023 12:54 pm
Style Wednesday at Fashion Week Fashion houses want as much exposure as possible for their presentations – and the coolest celebrities in their front row. For Saint Laurent, the star power at their men’s show this week came from one of the biggest breakouts of the last year, Wednesday Addams herself. Wednesday was one of By Lainey • Jan 18, 2023 03:51 pm
Style Outfit of the Week: Jenna Ortega at the Globes I don’t think there was much consensus about Jenna Ortega’s look at the Golden Globes on Tuesday. Some even had her on their worst dressed list. If it were somebody else, I might agree. But the fact that it’s Jenna, who is so of her generation and By Lainey • Jan 13, 2023 03:28 pm
Girlcrushes Jenna Ortega, Wednesday-ish What did you binge over the holidays? For me it was a lot of Chinese and Korean dramas (Lighter and Princess, She and Her Perfect Husband, Reborn Rich), the latest season of Big Mouth, and Wednesday… except for the last episode. Because I don’t quite want to finish it By Lainey • Jan 09, 2023 11:55 am
TV Updates Jenna Ortega in Wednesday Does Wednesday, the new Addams Family-inspired Netflix series, feature the Addams family we first met in Charles Addams’s cartoons? No. Is it the Addams family of the 1960s sitcom? Nope. Is it the Addams family of the beloved 1990s movies starring Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston as our horny By Sarah • Nov 23, 2022 12:48 pm
TV Updates Meet the (new) Addams family We’ve already gotten a good look at Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in the upcoming Netflix series, Wednesday, but now Vanity Fair is bringing us a look at the whole family. Check out Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia, Luis Guzman as Gomez, Ortega as Wednesday, and Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley. By Sarah • Aug 17, 2022 01:55 pm
TV Updates Jenna Ortega is Wednesday for a new generation Netflix is doing a marketing thing this week called “Geek Week”, which seems like an online, lesser version of Comic-Con in which the Netflix social media teams pretend everything is fine and like most of their co-workers weren’t recently laid off. It’s super dark! Not as dark: the By Sarah • Jun 08, 2022 11:03 am
