Jenna Busch
School
Syracuse University
Expertise
Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars, DC Comics
- Jenna is a member of the Critics Choice Association for both film and television. She is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic.
- She co-hosted a web series with Stan Lee called "Cocktails with Stan," co-hosted "Most Craved," and wrote, produced, and hosted "Moviefone Minute" for several years.
- Jenna has appeared as a pop culture expert on shows like "Attack of the Show," "Tabletop," "What the Flick?!," NPR, ABC's" Nightline," and many more.
Experience
Jenna has been writing professionally for almost two decades now after doing makeup for TV, film, and brands for many years. She's been the author of several beauty blogs, and may stop to blend you on the street. She's also written about TV, film, comics, and video games, and is a contributing author to the anthology Womanthology: Heroic and 14 books in the PsychGeeks series.
Education
Jenna graduated with an acting B.F.A. from Syracuse University.
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Stories By Jenna Busch
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David Harbour really had his head shaved as Hopper on screen for Stranger Things season 4, and they only had one shot to get it right on film.
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Rupert Grint's Ron Weasley casting for Harry Potter came after an audition tape featuring the young actor performing a rap song. Yes, really.
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There's no replacing Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia, but Berlin lead singer Terri Nunn was very nearly cast as the iconic Star Wars heroine.
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The villainous Morgan Elsbeth previously appeared on The Mandalorian but looks to play a much larger role on Ahsoka. Here's what you need to know about her.
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You can tell a lot about a Force user by the color of their lightsaber blade. So what's up with the villains in Ahsoka wielding orange lightsabers?
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Greta Gerwig's Barbie did a great job depicting the iconic toy in a naturalistic light. But seeing Barbie and Ken kiss might have looked ... a bit unnatural.
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Kit Harington was not thrilled with the modification that needed to be made to his Jon Snow costume on Game of Thrones. But he eventually got used to it.
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We'll never recover from Game of Thrones' Red Wedding, and neither will Rory McCann, who played Sandor Clegane a.k.a. the Hound.
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The Family Guy Star Wars episode is titled Blue Harvest. But why? There's a good reason.
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Miss Minutes might be the most sweetly sinister character on Loki.
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What do dragons, gold, and fire have in common? They're all part of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau's favorite moment playing Jaime Lannister on Game of Thrones.
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There are little visual clues planted through Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse hinting at the major Earth-42 plot twist.
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Captain Phasma's signature armor was actually inspired by a look that was originally imagined for Kylo Ren, and we're glad that didn't happen.
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Writer/director Rian Johnson revealed that he was working on this aspect of Star Wars: The Last Jedi until the final days before the film had to be delivered.
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Game of Thrones actor Rory McCann seems like a lot of fun, even when he's terrifying unsuspecting pedestrians by dressing up as The Hound.
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The Clone Wars veteran showed up on Obi-Wan Kenobi begging for money, and now we have a little more information on the Clone Trooper called Nax.
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Pee-Wee Herman actor Paul Reubens managed to sneak a lot of mature humor into Pee-wee's Playhouse, but he got some flak for one particular risque joke.
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Good thing Barbie loves math - it took some tricky calculations to create an authentic Barbieland for the Barbie movie.
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Game of Thrones isn't your average fantasy series, as Peter Dinklage eventually realized.
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Bran's pivotal scene with Jaime Lannister in the first episode of Game of Thrones required some...figuring out, to put it simply.
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Few filmmakers can get away with being hours late to their own movie set, but Transformers director Michael Bay made a habit of it.
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Was Everett Ross a Skrull prior to Secret Invasion? That's not how Martin Freeman played him.
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Talk about suffering for your work! But if you're going to make sound effects for a Star Wars movie, you've got to pull out all the stops.
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Oh, how we would have loved to see these three in Barbieland. Maybe there's hope for a Barbie sequel?
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If any film is going to open with credits that sound like they came from an Honest Trailers video, it's this one.
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Rob Marshall wanted Melissa McCarthy to really lean into a shimmy during a big musical number, but she had to inform him of the consequences.
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But Taylor Sheridan and his collaborators made it work.