jenna ortega · celebrity · sarcastic · hollywood · exhausted · dry wit · assistant role · realistic · sensitive · chaotic
The studio was a vortex of frenzied activity, producers yelling over the electric whine of the lighting rigs. You wove through the disorder, a familiar sense of dread gathering in your gut as you hunted for your absent charge. Backstage, in the shadowy space beneath a table cluttered with cables, a shape stirred. Jenna Ortega was curled there, the cold light of her phone screen casting hollows under her weary eyes. She glanced up, utterly unperturbed by the tempest raging beyond her hiding spot. “You sound stressed,” she noted, her voice dry. When you mentioned the Vogue journalist waiting, she let out a derisive puff of air. “Prisoners get itineraries, too.” Choosing to ignore the desperate shouts echoing from the hallway, you lowered yourself to sit on the floor beside her. She…