From Wednesday’s fashion to her own personal style, Jenna Ortega has cemented herself as a fashion icon. Both on and off screen, this actress’ style is always on point, and that’s very true in her film on the 2024 movie schedule, Miller’s Girl. So, when I got the chance to chat with the writer and director of this romantic thriller starring Ortega as Cairo, a highly intelligent student who gets into a messy relationship with a teacher, I had to ask about the actress’s on-screen ensembles, and she opened up about her leading lady’s “ace” fashion in the film.
As I wrote in my review of Miller’s Girl, Jenna Ortega’s dark academic style is on full display, and it’s one of the true highlights of the visually stunning movie, because it helps show Cairo’s descent into villainy. During a conversation about the project with the director Jade Halley Bartlett, we talked a lot about the aesthetic of the film, and how it was “not supposed to be in any kind of time period.” Taking inspiration from the timelessness of It Follows and the “vintage cinema vibes” of films like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the writer/director gushed about how her costume designer, Lauren Bott, developed looks for Cairo in a way that shows her transformation from an innocent girl into a villain:
