Jenna Ortega Recalls “Sweet” Audition Experience With Late Cameron Boyce
deadline.comFive years after his death, Jenna Ortega is recalling a sweet moment with the her late friend Cameron Boyce from early in their careers.
The Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star recently reminisced about a moment when he stepped in during an “uncomfortable” audition they had when they were both teenagers, before Boyce died at age 20 when he suffered an epileptic seizure. “The last time I saw my friend Cameron Boyce — I’d known him since I was like 11 or 12, and we were supposed to kiss,” she said of the audition in an interview with France’s Canal+. “And he knew me, since I was 11 or 12.
This was a few years later, 15, 16, [he] came in, we were supposed to be love interests. “But because he obviously felt weird and he was a bit older … we both just kinda looked at each other and we were like, ‘No, we can’t do this.’ And it was so sweet because I was uncomfortable and I was having a hard time in the audition.
And then, we wished each other well. “I remember being really thankful and grateful that he did that,” added Ortega. Her Beetlejuice co-star Catherine O’Hara called Boyce a “gentleman” for the move, to which Ortega agreed.
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