Golden Globe-winning actress Gina Rodriguez stopped by NBC’s Today show Tuesday morning where she spoke about her big win and even performed an impromptu rap.
When asked about why she chose the role on The CW’s critically-acclaimed dramedy, Jane the Virgin, she talks about the shortage of strong female roles on television and credits the series’ showrunner for her brilliant writing.
“For any woman, it is seldom — as an actress — that we come across roles that are strong and empowering and fearless and brave,” Rodriguez explains, on the daytime talker, “not because these women don’t exist; obviously there’s so many stories and there’s only so many stories you can tell.
“For me to come across the opportunity of not only playing an amazingly strong, independent, brave woman, but to be able to play a Latina and to really expose a culture that hasn’t been shown in this light, which is just so intermixed,” she continues. “I think that [showrunner Jenny Urman] wrote for a woman and she did a really good job, and I feel so blessed that woman is me.”
Jane the Virgin airs Mondays at 9pm on The CW.
