Jenna Ortega Talks Gothic Glamour And The Transformative Power Of Makeup

Jenna Ortega doesn’t want to be seen. It’s counterintuitive for an actor, you’d think, to not want to be looked at, especially one who’s become a gen Z icon and worked prolifically since they were a child. But her desire to go unnoticed is exactly why she chose a career in the spotlight: by shrugging off her own identity to slip into a character’s skin, she — as in Jenna Ortega — can disappear completely.

One of the best disappearing techniques she’s…