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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Warwick Davis's adorable Ewok character Wicket in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi made him a franchise mainstay. This is his secret how.
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When it came time to return to the Millennium Falcon for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, star Harrison Ford had a specific upgrade request.
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What would Cheers be without John Ratzenberger's Cliff Clavin? If it weren't for some last-minute audition improv, we might have found out.
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There's one prop from Bones we haven't been able to get out of our heads ... or of them, rather. It's Booth's beer hat, but where has it gone?
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Ahsoka Tano has become a permanent fixture in the Star Wars universe, but she almost had a totally different name.
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Come along with us as we get spoilery about Loki Season 2 and talk about the name of Ke Huy Quan's character Ouroboros and how it ties into the narrative.
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If you take a close look in the background of the Star Wars prequels, you should notice that all of the CG characters are abiding by this single rule.
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Star Wars: Return of the Jedi was so anticipated that Industrial Light & Magic hid where they were working. But that didn't stop someone inside from stealing.
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When it came to the original Star Wars trilogy, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher didn't think of themselves as the stars of the films. Here's why.
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For a scene that happened early in Yellowstone season 1, Kelly Reilly's Beth Dutton had to face down a pack of wolves. But they weren't CG. They were real.
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A famous musician makes a cameo near the end of Martin Scorsese's new movie Killers of the Flower Moon. Spoilers follow, obviously.
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We see another side of Miss Minutes in season 2 of Loki, and that side suggests that the sentient AI contains multitudes, including an unreciprocated love.
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The late, great Suzanne Somers was best known for playing Chrissy Snow on the beloved sitcom Three's Company, but she also played a mysterious second role.
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In season 2, episode 2 of Loki, we see Mobius flip out for the first time ever. Why he does so could be a clue about his life before he joined the TVA.
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Michael Bay may not have directed the latest Transformers movie, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, but he did offer up some advice to director Steven Caple Jr.
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Michelle Randolph snuck a line into one of her characters' most meaningful scenes on 1923, and the Taylor Sheridan series is all the better for it.
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Sir Alec Guinness was ready to walk away from Star Wars because, as George Lucas recalls, 'He didn't like the idea of being a ghost.'
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One of the only times we see Star Wars' C-3PO not complaining is when he takes his oil bath, which was anything but pleasant for Anthony Daniels.
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George Lucas initially had more story beats for characters outside of Anakin Skywalker, but Revenge of the Sith ended up focusing much more on Anakin.
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The buddy cop dynamic between Loki and Mobius is alive and well in season 2 of the Marvel series, especially when the threat of skin peeling comes about.
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Jonathan Majors doesn't appear in the first episode of Loki season 2, but his presence is still a big part of the premiere, and it's the elephant in the room.
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A scene in the Millennium Falcon cockpit resulted in Peter Mayhew's Chewbacca suit catching on fire in the confined space, and thankfully Carrie Fisher noticed.
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When it came to Batman Beyond, writers kept pitching stories about old Bruce Wayne instead of the show's main character Terry McGinnis.
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What happened to Lee Dutton on Yellowstone? We have the answer right here, but it contains spoilers if you haven't watched the hit show, so be warned.
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Here's how a lost prop from Obi-Wan in Star Wars kicked around for several decades and even ended up being worn by an extra in the 1999 version of The Mummy.
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Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith stunt coordinator Nick Gillard created a power ranking scale for all the Jedi and Sith to help with the film's lightsaber duels.
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Before Star Wars became a cultural phenomenon, Anthony Daniels wasn't too keen on being asked to audition for the part of the 'robot' C-3PO.