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"I remember telling my parents ‘I’m gonna be on Disney Channel one day, you just watch,’" she said.
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The La Quinta native caught the acting bug after seeing Dakota Fanning in “Man on Fire” with Denzel Washington and vowed to become “the Mexican version of that.” Becoming a Disney star is something she also yearned for since she was 8 years old.
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It's a premise not far from her own life in La Quinta, where she is the fourth oldest among six kids. Ortega plays Harley, the middle child among a brood of seven siblings. MORE ON DISNEY: Pixar Pier opens at California Adventure with 'Incredibles' MORE ON JENNA: La Quinta teen voices one of Disney's first Latina Princesses MORE ON JENNA: Fans meet Jenna Ortega to raise money for girl with cancer SIGN UP FOR FACEBOOK NEWS ALERTS: Message us here to get started "One day my mom picked me up from school and she goes ‘You’re not going back.' I was like 'Shoot. I’ve got to say goodbye to my friends.' I went back the next day and said good bye. That’s when it all happened," she said. The next month she quit eighth grade at John Glenn Middle School in Indio. I just remember it being one of the best days of my life," she said. I was sitting on my mom's bed and they told me I had booked the show and I just starting bawling like a big baby and I couldn’t talk for like 20 minutes. When her trajectory as a Disney darling was set. The 15-year-old, who never got to have her own quinceañera, recalls the day she became Harley Diaz. It’s fitting that the last episode of “Stuck in the Middle” is about Harley’s quinceañera – a Hispanic tradition that celebrates a girl's transition from childhood to womanhood.īecause in a way, Jenna Ortega, who plays the main character, appears to be transitioning as well in her career – especially as her Disney show comes to an end after three seasons. The last episode is scheduled to air July 23.