Jenna Ortega is opening up about a crossroads in her acting career before landing the role of Ellie Alves in the second season of You. "I didn't know what else I was gonna do. I've never really considered anything else, more so recently, just out of sake of curiosity and wanting another life experience," Ortega, 23, said of her ambitions in a Wednesday, April 8, interview on the "Big Bro With Kid Cudi" podcast. "But when I was a teenager, I'd gotten off of a children's show, and I didn't know what I was going to do.