Jenna Ortega Jokes About Tiny MCU Role in Iron Man 3: 'They Took All My Lines Out'

Do you retrieve seeing Jenna Ortega successful Iron Man 3? You’d beryllium forgiven for forgetting the blink-and-you’ll miss-it country successful which a precise young Ortega appears successful a wheelchair.

The 22-year-old prima of Netflix’s Wednesday bid and the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice movie really made her movie debut aged 11 successful a insignificant relation successful 2013’s Iron Man 3. Ortega’s little Marvel Cinematic Universe quality sees Miguel Ferrer’s Vice President Rodriguez, who's conscionable had a stark speech with Iron Man implicit the phone, buss his girl connected the forehead during a Christmas household function. The camera past pans down to uncover said girl is wheelchair bound arsenic a effect of a mislaid limb.

Jenna Ortega successful Iron Man 3. Image credit: Marvel Studios.

Now, 12 years aft Iron Man 3 came out, Ortega was asked by Entertainment Weekly astir getting into the MCU, and she replied to gag astir her quality successful Iron Man 3 and however Marvel Studios had chopped it down significantly.

“I did it once,” Ortega said. “It was 1 of the archetypal jobs I ever did. They took each my lines out. I’m successful Iron Man 3 for a speedy second. I instrumentality up the frame, I person 1 limb and I’m the vice president’s daughter.”

Her Death of a Unicorn co-star Paul Rudd, who famously plays Ant-Man successful the MCU, likewise joked astir Marvel’s penchant for laying quality breadcrumbs that pb to thing bigger and better.

“And truthful it mightiness precise good beryllium that you travel back,” Rudd continued, “that they are going to make thing for you, ’cause they should beryllium truthful fortunate to person Jenna Ortega successful their franchise.”

Casting uncertainty connected the possibility, Ortega concluded her reflection connected Iron Man 3: “They adjacent took my sanction away,” she interjected. “I’m really… but I just… I number that, and past I determination on.” Ah well.

In truth, Ortega was formed arsenic a kid histrion successful a relation that astir apt was much of a subplot astatine first, but became fundamentally thing erstwhile Iron Man 3 ended up successful theatres. It conscionable truthful happened that this peculiar kid histrion grew up to go 1 of the astir celebrated actors connected the planet, implicit a decennary later. I’m definite if Marvel Studios had a caller MCU relation for Ortega successful caput she’d surely see it.

If Jenna Ortega did instrumentality to the MCU, which quality should she play? Photo by Nina Westervelt/Variety via Getty Images.

While Iron Man 3 is considered 1 of the weaker MCU movies, it was a smash deed astatine the container office, bringing successful a immense $1.2 cardinal globally. Iron Man 3 is successful information the ninth highest-grossing superhero movie of all-time, up of the likes of Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and Captain Marvel.

The MCU was of people successful a precise antithetic spot then, and superhero movies nowadays person a overmuch tougher clip bringing successful the large bucks. Perhaps if Ortega was ever parachuted into the existent MCU, she mightiness assistance Marvel retired with that.

But which quality would she beryllium a cleanable acceptable for?

Photo by Nina Westervelt/Variety via Getty Images.

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