Holmes had reached out to Bush Hager — who was First Daughter on the time — whereas researching for her position within the 2004 movie, “First Daughter.”
Jenna Bush Hager and Katie Holmes are taking a stroll down reminiscence lane.
Throughout Wednesday’s episode of “TODAY with Hoda & Jenna,” Bush Hager and Holmes recalled the time again within the early 2000s when the latter reached out to the previous to select her mind whereas getting ready for her position in 2004’s “First Daughter.”
On the time, Bush Hager was a primary daughter as her father, President George W. Bush, was POTUS again then. The TODAY host shared that she was in school when she acquired a telephone name from Holmes, nonetheless, Bush Hager did not reply — and by no means responded to the actress.
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“Once you analysis a task, you analysis a task. And I do not know when you keep in mind again once you performed ‘First Daughter’ … I need to deliver you again trigger that was essential. So right here it’s. Jenna so occurred to be a primary daughter throughout this time,” Hoda Kotb stated to Holmes, earlier than asking her, “Katie, in your analysis, did you ever attain out to a younger girl named Jenna Bush? And attempt to get a bit intel data?”
“I consider I did,” Holmes replied with a smile.
Bush Hager defined what she was doing across the time Holmes known as her — and coincidentally, she was watching her on display.
“I used to be with my school roommates,” she recalled to Holmes and her “Uncommon Objects” co-star, Julia Mayorga. “We have been watching ‘Dawson’s Creek’ — I am not joking — We turned it off, and I am like, ‘Who known as me from…’ and I lived in Texas, ‘Who known as me from LA?’
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“[I] listened to the message, and it was Katie, and I used to be too embarrassed,” Bush Hager continued. “I imply, additionally, had you come and executed analysis, she would have been like, ‘Wow, that is fairly boring.'”
The tv character jokingly added that she had by no means had a romance with a Secret Service agent — not like Holmes’ character in “First Daughter.”
“I by no means fell in love with a Secret Service man,” Bush Hager stated. “However I did have a pal make out with one.”
She went on to apologize to Holmes for not calling her again on the time, to which Kotb requested her co-host, “Why, since you have been embarrassed?”
“Effectively, my actual life did not actually match the film,” Bush Hager replied. “The analysis you’ll have discovered would have been form of gross.”
“It was such a enjoyable film to do,” Holmes recalled, earlier than praising Bush Hager. “And I used to be seeking to you … I simply felt like, ‘What’s that like?’ To hold that — you have carried it so fantastically.”
