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Jenna Ortega Says Women ‘Should Have Our Own Franchises’ and Not Just Spinoffs: ‘I Don’t Want Jamie Bond. I Want to See Another Badass’


Jenna Ortega would rather see women get their own franchises than spinoffs.

During a recent video interview with MTV while on the publicity tour for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” Ortega was asked if she might consider an offer from director Tim Burton to revive “Edward Scissorhands” as the gender-flipped Edith Scissorhands, but Ortega would rather just get to lead a franchise as an original character instead. Ana de Armas, who starred in “No Time to Die” opposite Craig, similarly told The Sun when the movie opened in theaters that Bond should remain a guy. Daniel Craig himself told Radio Times on the topic: “The answer to that is very simple.

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