Jenna Ortega caught the acting bug very early in life. As she explained to YSBnow in 2017, she was just 8 years old when she decided she wanted to become an actress. "Right before then, I wanted to be everything," she explained. "If we were learning about astronomy in class, then I wanted to be an astronaut."
In another interview with YSBnow, Ortega explained how it all happened. One day, when she came home from school, she told her mom she wanted to be in a commercial. "My mom just kind of laughed, she's like, 'You're crazy, like, okay,'" Ortega recalled. But two years later, Ortega was still just as determined as ever.
So, her mother said, "Okay, we'll give you a shot, we'll see how it goes." She posted a video of the young Ortega on Facebook. Luckily, a casting director came across the video, and soon enough, Ortega had signed with her first agent.
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