She additionally thanked her “wonderful mother and father” and the “unimaginable reward” that they had—their incapacity to lie. And as she defined, that trait ties into how she found her love of performing.
“Sooner or later, the college principal got here to my first grade class and stated that I wanted to be referred to as to the workplace, and I went to the workplace,” the American Pie actress recalled. “She stated ‘you realize, your father’s right here.’ And my father was sitting there and he goes, ‘Yeah, Jenny, now we have to go.’ And the principal stated, ‘Jennifer, get nicely.’ And I did not know what that meant.”
After Jennifer and her dad obtained within the automotive, he instructed her, “I am by no means going to inform a lie once more. However we’re going someplace actually cool.” Their vacation spot? A Charlie Chaplin movie pageant.
“He obtained me out of my first grade class to do it,” she continued. “And I swear to god, that seeing Charlie Chaplin for the primary time, and having that have, it is my love of movie. It is my love of actors. All that got here from my first grade.”