She also took a a direct stand against the controversial "I really don't care, do u?" jacket Melania Trump wore when visiting an immigrant detention center. In addition to her work with Pride Over Prejudice, Ortega recently traveled to Kenya with the WE Movement to visit local schools and raise global awareness about the importance of education for all. You've got to stay true to yourself, and you can't change yourself in order to fit in or to make someone else feel comfortable." "It's important to embrace your culture today because there are so many different ethnicities in America," Ortega continued. We all should do our part to make the world a better place," Ortega said, adding that she wants everyone to feel comfortable and accepted in the U.S. "I feel that we were all put on this Earth for a reason. She told the outlet that giving back to her community is really important to her. Teen Vogue reported that she has a Puerto Rican and Mexican background and has been fighting for refugee and immigrant rights and acceptance in our country through her work with the Pride Over Prejudice campaign. Outside of acting, Ortega has become a social advocate. She also played the Vice President's daughter in Iron Man 3. She voices Princess Isabel in Elena of Avalor and starred in Stuck in the Middle as Harley for three years. In addition to YOU and Jane the Virgin, Ortega is a Disney Channel star. "So grateful to be joining this amazing show." When the news of her casting broke, she posted on Instagram that she was. Young Jane would probably never be friends with Ellie or vice versa, which is likely a nice change of pace for Ortega. It's a much different role for Ortega than her other notable one - playing the demure, rule-following young Jane on Jane the Virgin. She's fearless, creative, and ambitious, determined to start carving a place for herself in the film industry. ![]() Still, Ellie doesn't think she needs protecting from anyone, especially not from Joe or her sister. In others, she's still just a 15-year-old who probably does need some protecting - although not from Joe, who makes everything he tries to "fix" one hundred times worse and usually via murder. Just by virtue of growing up relatively unsupervised in the big city, Ellie is wise beyond her years in many ways. She's the younger sister of Joe's neighbor and property manager Delilah, who in the books has an older sister, not a younger one. On the show, she takes on a similar role in Joe's life as Paco did in Season 1, acting as a conduit for Joe to prove to the world and to himself that he's really a "good guy" who protects the innocent - and particularly young children, who he seems to see himself in.Įllie - played by 17-year-old Jenna Ortega - is much more headstrong than Paco, though. Though Netflix's YOU is based on Caroline Kepnes' eponymous 2014 novel and its sequel, Hidden Bodies, there's a new character in YOU Season 2 named Ellie who isn't in the books.
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