Jenna Ortega has appeared in a number of dark and twisted films over the past few years: she has been on a slasher tour with XThe Babysitter: Killer Queen, scream 5, And scream 6then over on TV there’s the second season of YouAnd Naturally the Netflix hit Wednesday, where her dance scene went viral. So it makes sense that when it was turned on Saturday night live
Instead, they expanded their line of roles as terrified teenagers trying their best: Rogue from the X-Men.
Technically in SNL In Sketch, she doesn’t play Rogue – she’s Zena Nutrino, a psychic and student at Professor Zander’s Academy for Extraordinary Children who’s furious that she’s not doing really important things with the team. Instead, she’s stuck on the quiz show School vs. School, pitting her against the perfectly normal students at West Grove High.
It’s not a fair fight – West Grove doesn’t have superpowers and Zena thinks the Shakespearean quote “to be or not to be” came from the character “Toby”. But unfortunately, Professor Chandliss tells Zander that she has to play because she can’t control her powers yet. While that may sound more like the Dark Phoenix, the distinctive white stripe and green-and-yellow ensemble (a la the Jim Lee relaunch look
But rejoice Wednesday fans! If you want a glimpse of Ortega revisiting the Wednesday dance, the Please Don’t Destroy boys got them to do it again (last?) time.
