Imagine Jenna Ortega in Hereditary. Creepy, right? Also… almost real.
He Wednesday The star just made a surprising confession while chatting with Kid Cudi on his podcast: she auditioned for Ari Aster’s now-iconic horror film when she was just 12 years old.
“I think I auditioned for Hereditary, which obviously wouldn’t have made any sense, especially because of my disposition as a kid, so I understood,” she said.
I didn’t even have the full script, just a couple of mysterious pages.
“I didn’t know what I was seeing… it was like two pages of sinister words that went through my head when I was 12 years old,” he explained. Still, something clicked: “I feel like this is an important movie.”
She wasn’t wrong.
The role eventually went to Milly Shapiro, while Toni Collette directed the film, and horror history was made.
Seeing it later in theaters, Ortega had a moment of coming full circle: “This is the one I said was going to be in.”
But rejection? Never his villain origin story. “I never question it…what should be mine will come to me.”
In fact, he almost stopped acting completely, until YOU happened. On set, one experience, and all of a sudden, “Yeah, there’s no way I can let this go.”
Fast forward, she’s now booked, busy…and finally learning how to cook.
Hollywood almost lost her. Imagine that horror story.
