Jenna Ortega Responds to Johnny Depp Dating Rumor

Jenna Ortega is talking out in regards to the rumor she was courting Johnny Depp.

The Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star addressed the hypothesis that first set social media alight final summer season in a video interview with BuzzFeed printed on Monday, August 26.

Requested in regards to the “craziest rumor” she’s heard about herself, Ortega stated: “In all probability that I used to be in a critical relationship with Johnny Depp and I needed all people to depart us alone. It’s so insane to me. I by no means stated something like that.”

“I believed that that was fairly hilarious. I used to be on set with Richard E. Grant and he got here as much as me and he stated, ‘Oh, so that you and Johnny …’ and I laughed as a result of I don’t know that individual,” Ortega, 21, added.

Movie star Instagram account DeuxMoi first linked the Wednesday star to Depp, 61, final summer season. Nevertheless, the Pirates of the Caribbean star’s consultant denied the rumor.

“Mr. Depp has no private or skilled relationship with Miss Ortega in anyway. He has by no means met her or spoken to her,” Depp’s rep instructed NME in August 2023. “He isn’t concerned in any challenge along with her, nor does he intend to be. He’s appalled by these baseless and malicious rumous which can be meant to hurt his fame and profession.”

Depp and Ortega are, nevertheless, each collaborators of Tim Burton, who directs Ortega within the upcoming Beetlejuice sequel. Ortega performs Astrid Deetz, the daughter of Winona Ryder’s Lydia Deetz. Michael Keaton and Catherine O’Hara additionally reprise their roles from the 1988 cult basic.

Ortega not too long ago revealed how Keaton scared her on set whereas in full costume as Betelgeuse.

“He got here up behind me,” Ortega defined on the Wednesday, August 21, episode of The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon. “I used to be getting a hair and make-up take a look at, and I bought a faucet on the shoulder and I circled and it was a bounce scare for positive. He was like, ‘Oh hey, I’m Michael,’ and he had molds peeling off his face.”

“I performed it cool. After which it was cool till I met him for a second day trip of hair and make-up as a result of I launched myself once more as a result of I forgot that I had already met him,” she stated.

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Ortega referred to as Keaton “the good” and stated she was grateful for the possibility to look within the film.

“By no means in my wildest goals. I simply by no means might have anticipated one thing like that taking place,” she gushed. “Lydia is the good character on the planet. Simply all the things about it, I used to be terrified.”