Sadly, Jane the Virgin’s cast working on final episodes
PASADENA, California — The upcoming final season of Jane the Virgin is already drawing tears.
The CW show’s creator, Jennie Snyder Urman, said she’s crying in the editing room as she works on the concluding episodes of the show starring Gina Rodriguez.
The producer and actor grew emotional discussing the telenovela-style comedy-drama with TV critics. They were asked how they would look back on Jane the Virgin.
“How much representation matters, what it feels like to be seen,” Urman said of the show focused on a Latino family, a rarity on TV.
Rodriguez said the audience response affirmed her belief that young girls would be empowered seeing a Latina character. She’s encouraged to increase her influence through directing and producing.
“You changed my life,” a tearful Rodriguez said to Urman.
“You changed mine,” the producer replied.
As for the final episode, Urman said she’s intent on providing “a real sense of closure.” She said she’s feeling pressure to say goodbye in the right way and wants to “stick the landing.”
The fifth season of Jane the Virgin, which begins March 27, has much to resolve.
Last season closed with Jane, who’s contemplating marriage to Rafael (Justin Baldoni), learning that her late husband Michael (Brett Dier) may have made a miraculous comeback.
The mystery of Michael’s apparent return will be explored in early episodes of Season 5, which will conclude this summer. The finale date has yet to be announced.
There may be a spinoff, a telenovela anthology series with Rodriguez and Urman serving as executive producers. CW has ordered a pilot for series consideration, with cast members yet to be announced.
Cranston to star in legal thriller
Bryan Cranston will star in a new TV legal thriller set in New Orleans.
Showtime said that Cranston will play the lead role in Your
Honor, a limited series from executive producers Robert and Michelle King of The Good Wife and The
Good Fight and Peter Moffat. Cranston, who’s also producing, portrays a respected judge whose son is involved in a hit-and-run accident. It becomes the catalyst for what Showtime called “a highstakes game of lies, deceit and impossible choices.”
Production on the 10-episode series will begin later this year in New Orleans, the cable channel said. A debut date for Your Honor was not announced. Cranston, who starred in Breaking Bad, is appearing on
Broadway in Network, an adaptation of the 1976 film.