New reading material arrived!
On paper, because who has ever heard of tools and devices with which one can read html.
Jenna Ortega won the Breakthrough Award at the Women of the Year Awards by Harper's Bazaar! She received the award from Tim Burton. Here she is in that night's portrait studio in a photo by Rachel Louise Brown, published here by the magazine. See the announcement on their Instagram.
New promo photo of Jenna Ortega for the upcoming film Finestkind, posted by their Instagram account.
Yeah, Jenna is a real standout even when she's sitting...
#JennaOrtega #Finestkind
Content warning: long white screenshot included that could be confusing in your timeline, hence behind a cw
Other great photos by Agata Pospieszynska of Jenna Ortega in the Harper's Bazaar 'Award's issue'. See more in the above link!
Great interview in Harper's Bazaar UK with Jenna Ortega, not about her films due to the strike, but about her career and her life, about the past and future, about her 21st birthday which was the first in a long time she was not working, about never being home, about representation, and about what she wants in the future. I like reading about her thoughts, she's a deep thinker.
Great photoshoot by Agata Pospieszynska as well. She's one of five cover stars for the 'Awards edition'.
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/fashion/fashion-news/a45696972/awards-issue-jenna-ortega/
The Awards issue: Jenna Ortega
Her star turn in a record-breaking television series has brought the actress an enormous global fan base – and precipitated a change in her perspective on success. Now, she’s determined to take charge of her own futureSarah Karmali (Harper's BAZAAR)
Content warning: @dansup, false positive, Pixelfed https://pixelfed.social/users/dansup
In honour of Katie Douglas' 25th birthday last Thursday, I'm rewatching Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey. It's moved from Netflix to Disney+, where I've nicely searched for the film via Katie's name so the statistics show why people are watching this (as opposed to any recommendation by algorithm). I've got my tea and popcorn ready.
It's a harrowing story played intensely and touchingly by Katie. The deep misery her character Lisa is in even before she's abducted, then the strength of character Katie portrays to fight her way out of it, make a lasting impression. And it's a true story.
More films of Katie should be released in my country, she's certainly made more.
Yasmin Paige is an actress I wish I'd hear more about. She did some great things. She was in the Doctor Who spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures as Maria and also in Pramface and the film Submarine. She was the reason I watched Ballet Shoes, a film with the very talented trio of Yasmin, Emma Watson (yes, the Hermione) and Lucy Boyton (who I've recently seen is still very good). I saw her first in The Mysti Show (yes, I knew Maria before TSJA).
Now I'm watching this film from that same early time, Tooth. Her name may not be on the cover, but she is as the title character, presumably a young tooth fairy. I like how sparkly this cover is! It changes colour with the light falling on it differently.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CybGJ4lsQ1J/

#LindsayArmaou
Watching the final episode of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, where Jenna Ortega voices Brooklynn, the brave pink-haired girl.
Screenshot (from another episode) from imdb.
#JennaOrtega #JurassicWorldCampCretaceous
Happy Birthday Jenna!
Jenna Ortega turns 21 today. I'm going to celebrate by watching some Wednesday and seeing a film of hers (still deciding which). Above photo was posted by her hair stylist Jenny Cho and taken yesterday in Paris.
#JennaOrtega #HappyBirthday #BirthdayRewatch
Actors and writers strike going strong. The studios should pay them properly and give them adequate protection against AI. Photo: Ivana Baquero picketing, on her insta.
My favourite period? This exact moment when King Edward desperately wanted a male heir to succeed him on the English throne, was dying, and nature told them no. Every descendant, even from the lines they didn't want (bastards, Catholics), was female. So on his death bed, he placed a woman in line of the succession for the first time ever: Jane, a 16 year old girl and I think one of the brightest people ever. She did become queen that next day and stayed so for a few more days, deposed by another woman (Mary I) who raised an army.
This is Tudor times and I don't know whether that counts as medieval or modern.
I was looking for this photo, the absolutely best post Lexa has made on insta of the two of them. Mia not just 'cosplaying' her mother's character Rommie, but wearing the absolute original costume.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFF6oFnne8A/
Mia is also an actress, e.g. once playing the younger version of her mother's character (in Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, which I unfortunately haven't seen). Here's a photo of the two of them in their trailer from Lexa's insta. No, you're not seeing double.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CWt6KJuPIl3/
Lexa's insta link announcing the song: https://www.instagram.com/p/CxJHyeQPY6t/
Mia's: https://www.instagram.com/p/CxHwKxqOgI4/
From the latter:
Jenna Ortega's new Dior campaign photos are finally posted by the Dior Instagram account. Some had already seen them in the wild, as it includes a street advertising campaign. They promote the jewelry collection "Rose des Vents".
Photos by Tyler Mitchell.
#JennaOrtega #Finestkind
#StephanieLeonidas #5lbsOfPressure
#ElizaDushku #Dollhouse
Now rewatching AnnaSophia Robb in the film Bridge to Terabithia.
I really like this film. I keep changing what I would mention as my favourite film (I have a list) but a long time ago the subject of favourite film came up at work and a colleague of mine and me at the same time said Bridge to Terabithia. Which is such an odd thing to happen, as it's not even that that many people have even heard of this film...
I'd say this film isn't that much underrated, as just not rated because it is quite unknown.
Anyway, AnnaSophia Robb is brilliant.
#ChloëGraceMoretz #KickAss
#AudreyTautou #Amélie #LeFabuleuxDestinDAméliePoulain
#MirandaCosgrove
This photo she posted may or may not be from the same thing, but this is also about her wrapping on a film project. I don't know which one.
IMDb lists an upcoming project called A Very Venice Romance and that could be this. They say it releases next month already, 30 September.
#StephanieLeonidas
#JennaOrtega #Finestkind
Miranda Cosgrove, as the host of Mission Unstoppable, the show to promote women in STEM, telling the story of Marie Curie in this tiktok and Instagram reel.
Jenna Ortega in this Instagram reel for Adidas Sportswear, acting out the emotions watching the world cup football.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cvt4hsnuJma/
(I still can't do video in these posts...)
Jenna Ortega shows her football skills in this clip for Adidas Sportswear and the World Cup. As far as I can tell it's not an edited video. But even if it is, it's fun.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cu6L_KRNS9J/
Some photos of her for the same campaign: