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. She also wrote, produced, and hosted Moviefone Minute for several years, and co-hosted Most Craved.
- Jenna has appeared as a pop culture expert on "ABC's Nightline," "Attack of the Show," "Tabletop," "What the Flick?!," "She Makes Comics," "Rise of the Superheroes," "Write of Passage: An Author's Journey," NPR, Al Jazeera America, and "Fresh Ink." She has also been interviewed for her geek expertise in over a dozen books.
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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A new book about the MCU reveals that the cave scene in the first Iron Man almost didn't happen.
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Filming the wampa scene in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back was not an easy task. Learn all about it right here.
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Somewhere, there is footage of Ryan Gosling rehearsing a scene for Barbie where Ken dances (and fights) with his faux mink fur coat.
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Beetlejuice was one of Alec Baldwin's first films. While the actor had fun on set, he was nervous how the movie might impact his professional future.
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The ending of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is eerily similar to the ending of a Marvel Movie.
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Cheers won its first Emmy after the writers' room pulled more than one all-nighter trying to get a specific episode together.
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The first Aquaman movie was a massive hit, and that gave director James Wan free reign to go absolutely bonkers with Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.
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Marvel's What If...? season 2 is making history by creating the first ever Mohawk superhero who speaks in the indigenous language, with help from local experts.
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The Star Wars timeline, or more accurately timelines, are hard to keep straight, and that's why Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni use the methods they use.
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Ted Danson's Sam and Shelley Long's Diane were the backbone of Cheers, and when Kelsey Grammer's Frasier threatened to come between them, one fan intervened.
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David Harbour made a suggestion for one of the first major sequences in Black Widow, giving it more emotional depth than it would have had otherwise.
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When Keri Russell joined the Star Wars universe, the role of Zorii Bliss was appealing for a couple different reasons, including getting to wear a cool mask.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer's outrageous title is what got a lot of fans hooked, but initially, the studio begged showrunner Joss Whedon to pick another name.
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Woody Harrelson's older Cheers costars tried to mess with him when he joined the show, but it ended up backfiring on them.
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Femi Taylor, who played Oola in Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi, had a hard time adjusting to her costume while performing her scenes.
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Shelley Long embodied playing Diane on Cheers, so much so that the actor broke down when she saw something in the script she knew would upset her character.
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When it came time to film Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace, Natalie Portman had a hard time acting against blue screens.
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The Geonosian droid factory scene in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones was a last-minute addition by George Lucas — one that made life extra difficult for ILM.
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Hugh Jackman is indelible as Wolverine in the X-Men films, but he almost lost the role to an equally famous A-lister peer.
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Zeb's character in Star Wars Rebels functions in much the same way that Chewbacca does in the Star Wars films, but here's how the two were distinguished.
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There's a lot to critique about the Star Wars: Special Editions release, but the increased screen time for Oola is not one of them.
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Watto actor Andrew Secombe made a mistake (thanks to George Lucas) on the Phantom Menace set that nearly cost the movie its star, Liam Neeson.
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William Hootkins played Rebel Alliance pilot Jek Porkins in Star Wars: A New Hope, and it was kind of a miserable experience pretending to battle in space.
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Watto actor Andrew Secombe walked off the Phantom Menace with a pretty impressive haul in hand, something not all Star Wars actors can boast about.
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars originally featured a scene with Yoda, but the character was instead replaced with the droid Huyang. Here's why.
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For one of the shots on Hoth in the early scenes of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, a mishap resulted in a missed explosion cue for a key special effect.
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David Tennant voices the droid Huyang in Star Wars, and Dave Filoni cast him after his wife made him watch a certain show.