Jenna Ortega was looking for the character that would make her a star. We knew her from her roles as a child and adolescent in Jane The Virgin, You and screambut he still did not receive his great opportunity, until he arrived merlin. It would seem like a fairy tale to Jenna, but she wasn’t.
In the interview we had with her prior to the launch of the series, she told us everything she had to learn to live up to the role. She took cello, German, and fencing classes in record time, which put a fair amount of stress on her, but the rough part of it came during eight months of filming in Romania.
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TO Variety He confessed that he worked between 12 and 14 hours six days a week, and when he had free time he had to take classes on something. One of the most difficult points was when she had to do the sequence of Paint It Black on cello, because in addition to struggling with having changed teachers when she arrived in Romania, she had to play a contemplated score for two cellos by herself with one instrument.
According to the interview, one night she spoke crying to her father because she put a lot of pressure on herself to make the scene go well. The person in charge of reassuring her was the director and creator of the series Tim Burton.
As if that had not been enough, the filming of the famous dance sequence began with the symptoms of Covid, so although she was finally able to rest for a few days, she felt terrible and kept pushing herself to return to the recordings soon, well in almost the entire series there were shots of Merlina.
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In the end it was all worth it: the efforts, the stress, the crying calls to his father and even the Covid because merlin broke the record for hours watched in the first week of a Netflix series, surpassing 340 million hours, breaking the record for stranger things 4. On her side, Jenna stopped being a teen star to become a worldwide recognized celebrity, she has been nominated for several awards for her role as Merlina, many artists imitate her and now she has several projects waiting for her.
Congratulations to Jenna Ortega for her impressive work.
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