Jenna Ortega on the Horror of Trying Not to Laugh While Making a Killer Unicorn Movie

io9 recently attended a special screening of A24’s Death of a Unicorn starring Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) and Paul Rudd (Avengers: Endgame); they play a daughter and her father who accidentally run over a unicorn. And yeah, that seems about the sort of a film A24 would push for its cinema addicts. After the film director Alex Scharfman led a Q&A with Ortega and other members of the cast (minus Rudd) about the dark modern fantasy comedy. Death of a Unicorn offers an art-house take on the same concept explored in Cabin in the Woods; it pits the destructive nature of a unicorn against some deeply unserious rich people—and a normie single dad (Rudd) trying to do his best for his daughter (Ortega) who unwittingly forges a bond with the unicorn they hit. Ortega shared her biggest challenge was keeping a straight face while her co-stars—which also include Tea Leoni, Richard E. Grant, Will Poulter, and Anthony Carrigan—said and did the most ridiculous things as their characters extracted the u ... Read full article.