It was after seeing Dakota Fanning in Man on Fire that Jenna Ortega wanted to become an actress

In addition to her confidences on Mercredi, and the unwavering support of Tim Burton, the Vanity Fair portrait delivers THE film that changed the young actress's life.

This week, Jenna Ortega is delivered – obviously without mincing words – in the American version of Vanity Fair. The actress is enjoying the filming of season 2 of Wednesdayand the upcoming release of Beetlejuice Beetlejuiceto take stock of her career, already strewn with success even though she was only 21 years old.

She also talks about her sometimes difficult overexposure following the success of the spin-off series The Addams Family on Netflix, assuming her desire to do things well, to always act according to the logic of her character, even if she regrets having been able to express oneself awkwardly about the flaws of his first season.

Now producer of the sequel, and pushed by Tim Burton in person to move on to directing this series, she also returns to her childhood dreams, and talks about how much watching Man of Firethe action film by Tony Scott starring Dakota Fanning and Denzel Washington released in theaters 20 years ago, changed his life.

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“I love thinking back to the six-year-old version of myself, when I dreamed of becoming president or an astronaut, because now I realize that I was always looking for a way out of everyday life,” she confides before speaking more specifically about the feature film which has “literally changed the course of his life.”

In Man on Fire, Dakota Fanning plays a 9-year-old girl who must be protected by a bodyguard, but who ends up being kidnapped anyway. He will then do everything to find her. A golden role for the little girl, also seen at the time in War of the Worldsby Steven Spielberg, who could show her full range of emotions at a very young age: fear, sadness, malice, joy… In front of Tony Scott's camera, she plays a child full of life, capable of upsetting the very mute man hired by her parents to protect her.

Seeing this child already have so much talent was the trigger for Jenna Ortega, who immediately forgot her dreams of the White House and the ISS to ask her mother to help her make a career in Hollywood. Which the latter did, recording her performing a monologue to share the video on social networks. A contact then transferred her to a casting director, Jenna was invited to go to auditions, her mother accompanied her, from Coachella, where she lived with her five brothers and sisters. And the little girl's career quickly took off.

Hired from the age of ten for appearances in CSI Manhattan, Insidious 2 And Iron Man 3she made her mark as a child playing the young version of the heroine of Jane the Virginbefore gaining worldwide recognition as a teenager thanks to Youthe hit Netflix series. Showing a strong taste for horror productions, she continued in the early 2000s The Babysitter: Killer Queen, X And Scream 5 And 6before being chosen to play Wednesday Addams in the series that would make her a star.

Jenna will be back in theaters on September 11th in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Here is its trailer:

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