Jenna Ortega, who starred opposite Sabrina Carpenter in the 2024 “Taste” music video, recently revealed a behind-the-scenes detail about the chainsaw prop featured near the end of the video. According to Ortega, the prop had a name that referenced Carpenter, though she couldn’t quite recall the exact name.
“I think the chainsaw had some crazy name and reference to Sabrina as well. It was called like the Espresso 3000 or something,” Ortega told Esquire. The name would be a fitting nod to Carpenter’s “Espresso,” which kicked off her Short n Sweet era in the spring of 2024.
The “Taste” video features Ortega and Carpenter repeatedly trying to kill each other in increasingly elaborate fashion. Ortega said the chainsaw sequence was her favorite part to film, calling it “really camp and fun” and noting the pair had “nice little outfits for the scene.”
Despite how elaborate the finished video looks, Ortega said there wasn’t much time to prepare for the shoot. “Nothing about that music video was choreographed,” she said. “Like we were just running around. We had no time to prep or really talk about it.”
“Taste,” released as the third single from Short n Sweet, became one of the album’s biggest hits, reaching No. 2 on the Hot 100 and spending multiple weeks in the chart’s top 10. The accompanying video helped establish the song’s darkly comic visual identity.
Source: Billboard
