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Hurry Up Tomorrow with Jenna Ortega & Abel Tesfaye

May 14, 2025
Jenna Ortega and Abel Tesfaye open up about their new film Hurry Up Tomorrow, diving into the dynamic between their characters. Watch it unfold in theaters May 14.
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Something has to change.
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Familia, today we are here with Jenna Ortega and Abel Tesfaye
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Congratulations on Hurry up tomorrow.
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Thank you. I've loved what I've seen so far.
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Jenna and Abel, your characters share an intense and intriguing dynamic
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in the film. It's so weird.
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I feel like I know you.
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I know what you mean.
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How would each of you describe your character's relationship?
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I feel our relationship is kind of a mirror or at least
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that's my role is to kind of hold a mirror up to
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Abel's character and it's just it's very intense.
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Yeah, it isn't so black and white I think when you
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watch the film you understand that it's very subjective,
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very psychological, you know,
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we're. Essentially, you know,
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playing, playing each other in the moment.
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Jenna, you, you star in an executive produced Hurry Up
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Tomorrow. After more than a decade in the industry,
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what advice would you give to young Latinas hoping to make an
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impact in Hollywood? There's so much projection.
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So much rejection. You just,
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you gotta brush it off and it's it's gonna be a lot
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more devastating answers than it is going to be positive,
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but I think more than anything you just have to be grateful
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for, you know,
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the experiences that you are getting and take with grace and you've
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got to let it kind of fuel your fire almost.
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Has stepping into the producing role allowed you to help shape the
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stories you're a part of telling?
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Producing is so interesting to me because it's so nice having a
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look behind the curtain and understanding what it's like constructing a production
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It's very fascinating to me.
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It depends on who you're working with.
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Like for this one,
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for example, I kind of wanted to step back a little
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bit because there were so many incredible creatives on this team.
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Trey has a very unique mind,
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Chase, Irvin, Abel,
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obviously, Barry,,
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just everybody brought something new and different,
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and I was incredibly inspired by that.
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And when you're working with people who are so strong,
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you want to give them as much room as possible.
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I will, I will say too that I definitely relied on
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her a lot. Her notes and what she brought to the
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film just elevated the material,
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elevated. Character, it just really felt so collaborative.
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It didn't just feel like mine or Trey's.
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It felt like all of ours,
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and I think that was really important for us.
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I love that. In April,
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a lot of fans worldwide know you as the weekend.
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Latinos love to call you Elfin.
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What do you hope audiences learn about you through your role in
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this film? I do feel like it's a little ambitious to
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play myself on that screen because,
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you know, it will be tough to separate.
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What's on screen and who I am as a person?
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I feel like I am a little vulnerable in this more vulnerable
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than I've ever been,
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so maybe people see a different different side for sure
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Thank you so much for speaking with us Failia.
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You have to watch Hurry up Tomorrow out May 16th.
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