Jenna Ortega continues to be perplexed by one specific rumor — and is as soon as once more shutting it down.
The “Wednesday” star went viral final summer season after superstar gossip account Deux Moi falsely reported that she and fellow actor Johnny Depp, 61, have been noticed on a date. Whereas each events denied it instantly, the rumor nonetheless baffles Ortega.
“It’s so insane to me,” the actor, 21, instructed BuzzFeed, HuffPost’s mum or dad firm, in a puppy-laden interview on Monday.
“I was on set with Richard E. Grant, and he came up to me and he just said, ‘Oh, so you and Johnny?’” Ortega defined, referring to their upcoming “Death of a Unicorn” collaboration. “And I laughed because I… I don’t know that person.”
Ortega has been knowledgeable actor for greater than a decade however landed her breakthrough function within the gothic Netflix sequence “Wednesday,” which was produced and partially directed by Tim Burton, whose 1990 movie “Edward Scissorhands” helped make Depp a star.
These few levels of separation — and the 23-year age hole between Depp and his ex Amber Heard — presumably made the Deux Moi rumor extra plausible. Plus, there was chatter that Depp would star reverse Ortega in “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.” However Depp’s spokespeople responded to the gossip merchandise nearly instantly after it went viral in 2023.
“Mr. Depp has no personal or professional relationship with Ms. Ortega whatsoever,” a consultant for the actor instructed NME final August. “He has never met her or spoken to her. He is not involved in any project with her, nor does he intend to be.”
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The actor’s consultant concluded by stating that Depp was “appalled by these baseless and malicious rumors that are intended to harm his reputation and career,” suggesting that the rumor was an excessive amount of to let linger after his polarizing defamation trial in 2022.
Ortega herself reportedly denied the rumor in a since-deleted Instagram Story final yr, however instructed BuzzFeed on Monday that her first flame was fairly a bit older than she: “I always say my first crush was Barack Obama … it was during his first election, and I was smitten.”
Ortega will quickly be seen in Burton’s “Beetlejuice” sequel, during which she performs the daughter of a personality beforehand portrayed by Winona Ryder, who famously dated Depp within the early Nineties.
