Jenna Ortega Teams Up with The Weekend for Upcoming Thriller — Watch the Trailer
Jenna Ortega at the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held at the Fairmont Century Plaza on February 26, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)
Jenna Ortega is heading to the big screen with a pop superstar. This morning (February 6), the trippy trailer was released for the upcoming movie Hurry Up Tomorrow, which stars the Mexican-American actress and The Weeknd.
Following the success of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice sequel, Ortega is returning to both TV and film this year. Last week, the first footage of season two of Netflix’s Wednesday was released where she will reprise the iconic titular role. Now the trailer has been released for Ortega’s first movie coming out this year. She will star alongside Canadian singer The Weeknd and Barry Keoghan, who is known for his breakout role in Saltburn, in Hurry Up Tomorrow.
The trailer first shows Ortega watching one of The Weeknd’s concerts in awe inside a massive stadium. Later, as her character Anima, she is seen snuggling up in bed with the “Cry For Me” hit-maker. Things then take a strange turn when Ortega, The Weeknd, and Keoghan are seemingly trying to escape an unseen force.
Hurry Up Tomorrow, which was directed by Trey Edward Shults, is based off The Weeknd’s album of the same name that came out on January 31. The Weeknd plays a fictionalized version of himself. To distance himself from his pop persona, he’s billed in the movie under his government name Abel Tesfaye. This will mark The Weeknd’s second major acting role following his debut on HBO’s The Idol in 2023.
Last year, Ortega collaborated with another pop star on a different kind of project. She appeared in Sabrina Carpenter’s gory music video for “Taste,” which featured plenty of classic movie references. Ortega and Carpenter paid homage to films like Psycho, Kill Bill, Addams Family Values, and Death Becomes Her as their characters tried to kill each other.
Hurry Up Tomorrow will open in theaters everywhere on May 16.