Spray paint is the aerosol coating that turned a block of craft foam into a geological costume in Jenna Ortega’s childhood. On Late Night with Seth Meyers in October 2026, she explained that her rock costume was a big styrofoam block from Hobby Lobby, spray-painted to resemble stone, then labelled with a ‘rock’ headband when neighbours needed help identifying it. The humble can of spray paint thus holds a small place in Halloween history — and in the origin story of a scream queen.
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