Jenna Ortega Reveals the Pink Chainsaw in Sabrina Carpenter's 'Taste' Video Had a Name: 'The Espresso 3000'

Jenna Ortega has revealed that the pink chainsaw she wielded in Sabrina Carpenter's "Taste" music video had a name — "the Espresso 3000."

Ortega shared the detail in an interview with Esquire published on 13 August 2026, recalling the prop's moniker as "the Espresso 3000 or something." She had given the same account a day earlier in an Instagram reel posted to her official account on 12 August, where she named the chainsaw outright.

The name ties back to Carpenter's hit single "Espresso," the song that launched the Short n' Sweet era in spring 2024. "Taste" was released as the third single from that album and reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 — the weekly US singles chart that ranks the country's most consumed songs across sales, radio airplay and streaming.

The "Taste" video, released in August 2024, casts Ortega and Carpenter in a fight to the death, deploying shotguns, knives, chainsaws and voodoo dolls. One scene has Ortega kiss her boyfriend before he transforms into Carpenter, whom Ortega then cuts with the chainsaw.

Nothing about the video was choreographed, Ortega told Esquire. She described the shoot as "just running around," with no time to prep. Ortega also said she found out she would be involved only days before filming began. The chainsaw sequence was her favourite part to shoot — "really camp and fun," in her words.

Behind-the-scenes content from the set was shared by both Carpenter and Ortega around the video's release, and Carpenter had teased the video on her Instagram the week before it dropped.

Short n' Sweet became Carpenter's first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 — the chart that ranks the US's most consumed albums each week, measured by a combination of traditional album sales, track sales and streaming equivalent album units, the metric that converts streams into album-sale figures.

For fans of both artists, Ortega's account fills in a gap that the video itself left wide open: how much of the on-screen chaos was planned, and how much was simply two performers handed a pink chainsaw and told to go.