Rodriguez finds love working on ‘Jane’
Gina Rodriguez credits “Jane the Virgin” with many things: changing her career (she won a Golden Globe for her work on the CW series in 2015), giving her a platform for activism and humanitarian work, and leading her to the love of her life.
She is now engaged to Joe LoCicero, whom she met when he guest-starred in an episode of the show.
“I never was the girl that dreamt about my wedding,” said Rodriguez, 34, in an interview Tuesday. “I did always pray that I would meet a really cool partner, whether it was going to be male or female, that I was going to have somebody that was going to uplift me and support me and want me to shine and not want to take away from that but want to shine as well in their own right, and I found it in Joe, and I found it on the set of ‘Jane.’ ”
Rodriguez is returning to work on “Jane the Virgin” this week. She’ll direct the first episode of the upcoming fifth and final season. She said she knows how the series will end but doesn’t know exactly how the writers will get there.
She also said fans of the show are “not getting gypped” by its ending because the creator, Jennie Snyder Urman, always imagined it as a story told in five chapters.
“As much as people are saddened that the show is going to be done after Season 5, you’re getting the gift of the whole thing.”