Jenna Ortega has some notes for the Please Don’t Destroy guys in first Saturday Night Live promo
Okay, fine, Jenna Ortega will do that viral Wednesday dance again
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Wednesday star Jenna Ortega recently opened up about pushing to get more of her vision of the iconic Addams Family character onto the screen in the hit Netflix series. Now, with her new gig as a Saturday Night Live host, the Jane The Virgin actor is having to put her foot down yet again.
“This is really well-written, I just don’t feel like I want to do the Wednesday dance for promo because we’ve seen so much of that already and I think it’s time to do something new, you know?” Ortega tells the Please Don’t Destroy guys in a promo video.
Naturally, the video then cuts to the comedy trio decked out in full costume as Wednesday going to her school dance in the now-viral clip, wigs and all. No strangers to internet fame themselves, they turn to reverse psychology to convince Ortega.
“It wouldn’t be a dream come true for us to do the dance with you, so let’s just not do it, then,” says John Higgins.
Ortega eventually gives in and reprises her much-mimicked moves to Lady Gaga’s “Bloody Mary,” though she sticks with her “reporter from the ’70s” outfit and has the energy of someone who’s sick and tired of the bit. (And she hopefully doesn’t even have COVID this time around!) Fortunately, the You actor will have plenty of fresh material to work with when she hits the stage at Studio 6H on Saturday.
Continuing a 2022 hot streak that also saw the releases of projects including Scream, Studio 666, X, and Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, Ortega is now one of the stars of Scream VI, which comes out this weekend. The A.V. Club’s review says it’s “one of the most fun (and funniest) modern horror experiences one can have at a movie theater” and notes Ortega’s performance as “exceptional.”
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We’re back to having articles about SNL promos?
was honestly expecting a slideshow w every frame from the video
“articles”
Hey now, this is the most valuable content AV Club has had all week.
Don’t worry. Next time it’ll be in a sideshow.
We get this but we can’t get reviews for new episodes of South Park anymore…
You’d think they’d have wanted to use the real music.Could Lady Gaga music be cheaper to use than The Cramps?
The Lady Gaga song was used in the TikToks of the dance that went crazy viral, and I would wager turned a lot of eyes onto the show in the first place.
It was kinda bizarre finally watching the scene in the show and hearing The Cramps song, even though it does fit much, much better.
The Cramps song fit perfectly with the scene in the show. But a weird dance with a weird song is weird-on-weird. That’s too much weird for Tik Tok’s legion of theater kids, so they kept the weird dance and substituted a safe pop song to make the whole thing more accessible.
It’s an interesting split between the Wednesday Dance as a viral moment and the Wednesday Dance as a scene in a TV show. It’s interesting because the opposite happened with Running up That Hill – I have no idea what happened in that Stranger Things scene, but that song was everywhere.
They would like to have Lady Gaga appear again in the near future.The Cramps? Not so much.
What I’m getting is Jenna Ortega’s gimmick is taking charge of every situation, but in a Lawrencianly quirky kind of way.
I like the part where they act like they don’t care but really you can tell they do. Like, irony.
Gotta make the daily quota of 10 Jenna Ortega articles
My mom lets me stay up late on Saturdays to watch this as long as I’m not crabby the next day.
Jenna Ortega also did a cute sneeze yesterday, it was everything.