While speaking to The Sunday Times Style, Jenna Ortega was asked a series of rapid-fire questions for their "Get to Know Jenna Ortega in 60 Seconds" video. One of them was "When you were younger you wish you had known ... " Ortega replied, "I wish I would have known that I had absolutely no chance with Barack Obama." Obama was mentioned again in that same interview on Ortega's list of "dream dinner party guests," along with late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, musician Thomas Bangalter (of Daft Punk fame), and late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
A younger Ortega even reached out to one of Obama's close friends to try and meet him. In her "20 Questions on Deadline" interview, Ortega talked about her crush on Obama, recalling: "I was obsessed with him. I watched the inauguration with goo-goo eyes on my face." She also explained she was "starstruck" seeing Oprah Winfrey at the "A Wrinkle in Time" movie premiere. As a child, the "Scream" (2022) actor had penned many letters to Obama, and also to Winfrey to see if she could introduce the two of them.
Sadly, Ortega has yet to meet Obama despite her letter-writing campaign — "I'm waiting for a response on those letters," Ortega added.
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