Jenna Ortega Reveals the Role That Got Away: “Incredible Movie”

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Jenna Ortega in Hereditary? It could’ve happened.

During an appearance on pal Kid Cudi’s new podcast, Big Bro, the 23-year-old Wednesday star revealed that she auditioned for Ari Aster’s horror film, released by A24 in January 2018. “I think I auditioned for Hereditary, which obviously wouldn’t have made any sense, especially for, like, my disposition as a kid, so I understood,” she tells Cudi, her friend since they starred together in Ti West’s slasher pic X opposite Mia Goth, Brittany Snow and Martin Henderson.

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Ortega said that while she only received a select portion of the script she knew it would be impactful. “I didn’t know what I was looking at and they they gave us barely any sides. It was like two pages of just ominous words that as a 12-year-old went over the head,” she explained. “But I remember seeing it,

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