#Jenna Ortega Leads Martin Freeman Into Complicated Relationship in ‘Miller’s Girl’ Trailer

Jenna Ortega and Martin Freeman find themselves embroiled in a heated student-teacher dynamic in the trailer for the upcoming feature Miller’s Girl.

Lionsgate is set to release the film from writer-director Jade Halley Bartlett on Jan. 26 after it debuts at the Palm Springs International Film Festival earlier that month. Ortega stars as Cairo, a promising writer who navigates her complicated relationship with Jonathan Miller (Freeman) after his assignment leads to tension.

“Why did you write this?” Freeman asks in the drama’s trailer. “This is inappropriate.” This leads Ortega to respond, “‘Write what you know,’ is what you said.”

Later, Freeman laments, “If she can convince them that something happened between us, I would lose my job.”

Bartlett directs from her own script, which landed on the Black List in 2016. Dagmara Domińczyk, Bashir Salahuddin and Gideon Adlon co-star in the movie that counts Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Josh Fagen and Mary-Margaret Kunze as producers.

Ortega’s other recent work includes the crime thriller Finestkind, hitting Paramount+ this week, and she stars in next year’s Beetlejuice 2 for Warner Bros. The actress, whose exit from Scream VII was announced last month in the wake of Melissa Barrera getting fired from the film following social media posts about the Israel-Hamas war, is set to return for the second season of her hit Netflix series, Wednesday.

Freeman, who is known for the British version of The Office and the Hobbit films, recently appeared on Disney+’s Marvel series Secret Invasion and the Peacock show Angelyne.