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Jenna Ortega of 'Stuck in the Middle' Shares Directing Aspirations, Talks Latina Leads | Young Hollywood
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Ortega also shared one of her worst audition stories, but told THR, "I ended up booking the part."
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Hey, I'm Jenna Ortega, and I'm from Stuck in the Middle.
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Fix my bed.
00:12
Trail mix.
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I love trail mix.
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I eat it all the time.
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It's a bad habit.
00:19
Oof.
00:21
One time during an audition, I kept stumbling over this one line,
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and the casting director told me, don't worry about it, don't worry about it.
00:28
But every time I messed up, I would say sorry,
00:30
and then one time she just flipped, and she was like, don't say sorry.
00:34
And I was like, I am so sorry.
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I ended up getting the part, so.
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I had gotten a phone call from my agents,
00:44
and they were asking me how school was going because I was in eighth grade.
00:47
They're like, do you like going to public school?
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And I was like, yeah, it's really fun.
00:50
I get to see my friends.
00:51
I'm in a lot of classes with them.
00:53
And they're like, would you be upset if you had to do school on a Disney set?
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And I was like, um, and my mom was like, don't you understand what's going on?
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And I was like, I don't, and they were like, you book stuck in the middle.
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And that's when I just dropped the phone and cried really hard.
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Like, it was an ugly cry, just all on the floor, too.
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I just fell.
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Viola Davis and Denzel Washington.
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Denzel, I've been in love with his work since I was eight years old.
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I saw Man on Fire, and he just became my idol.
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And Viola Davis, she's just incredible.
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Everything she does, also the way she carries herself, she is so classy.
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And I just love her.
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She's real, she's honest, and her work is honest as well.
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I will be directing.
01:42
Hopefully Hollywood will open up and give us Latinas a shot in their leading roles.
01:47
And, um, I don't know, maybe I'll dabble in some producing and writing as well.
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