Jenna Ortega on Yes Day, Scream, and Ti West’s X

With director Miguel Arteta’s Yes Day now streaming on Netflix, I recently spoke to Jenna Ortega about making the fun family film. Based on the bestselling children’s book Yes Day, written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld, the film is about a mom (Jennifer Garner) and dad (Edgar Ramírez) who usually say no to everything allowing their kids (Ortega, Julian Lerner, and Everly Carganilla) 24 hours where they have to say yes to their requests. As you might imagine, chaos ensues and lessons are learned. Yes Day also stars Fortune Feimster, Nat Faxon, Arturo Castro, and Molly Sims. During the interview, she talked about what it’s really like filming a scene where you need to eat a lot of ice cream, how she got paid to ride roller coasters with Jennifer Garner, if she gets nervous when filming big crowd scenes, how she decided to be an actor after watching Man on Fire with Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning, and more. In addition, she talks about how she ended up in Ti Wes