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Jenna Ortega looked back at the making of Sabrina Carpenter‘s 2024 music video for "Taste." Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue Sabrina Carpenter‘s music video for her Short n’ Sweet single, “Taste,” has become a standout in her cinematic universe thanks in large part to her co-star, actress Jenna Ortega. The impossible-to-murder pair chase each other with a machete, shotgun, and chainsaw throughout the fantastically campy film, which pays homage to the classics like Death Becomes Her.
While its easy to see why fans might assume the stunning bloodbath took weeks of planning between the two to pull off — given the amount of times they murder each other in the three-minute video — Ortega recently revealed that she found out she would be involved just days before shooting.
When speaking to Esquire, Ortega admitted, “I swear to you, nothing about that music video was choreographed. Like we were just running around. We had no time to prep or really talk about it.” Ortega pointed to the scene where she kisses her boyfriend before he turns into Carpenter, whom the actress promptly cuts with a pink chainsaw. “The kissing sequence was: I would stand there, I would kiss a man. They would tell me to hold it. I stayed in that position. Sabrina would come in. She would kiss me, and then we just did that a few times,” explained Ortega. “So, it was like a carousel of lovers.”
