Jenna Ortega picks The Beatles, Nine Inch Nails and Deftones for her ideal ‘Scream’ soundtrack | CPT PPP Coverage

In a new promotional interview with MTV alongside some of her Scream co-stars, Ortega suggests songs from Nine Inch Nails, The Beatles and Deftones as music that could soundtrack a Scream movie. 

Initially, the group were asked to name a song to soundtrack the intense chase scenes in the movie. Ortega’s co-stars, Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy-Brown and Mason Gooding, suggest more traditionally cinematic options, pandering towards classical music. “Like a Mozart or a Beethoven,” Savoy-Brown offered.

When the same question was posed to Ortega, she replied, “It’s kind of a basic one, but it also goes along with this movie: ‘Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away)’, the Deftones song. I feel like they’re just trying to get away, that could be an interesting one, too.” 

Later in the interview, Ortega reveals that if her character Tara had her own theme tune, it’d be ‘The Way Out Is Through’ by Nine Inch Nails or ‘She’s Leaving Home’ by The Beatles. It’s safe to say she has a killer taste in music.  

In a conversation with NME earlier this month, Ortega further discussed her broad music taste, revealing her love for Daft Punk and Nick Cave. “I listen to a lot of Discovery by Daft Punk or Homework by Daft Punk. [Those two albums] have been heavy on my playlist recently. I don’t know why.”

“I think I’m re-going through my Daft Punk phase…the director, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Mason [Gooding; Chad in Scream VI], and I love Nick Cave,” she continued. “We have a collective playlist where we throw a bunch of stuff… and a couple of the songs that are in the movie now are songs that Matt and I were putting on that playlist. We put so much of Nick Cave’s stuff on there.”