Gina Rodriguez is discussing her previous and future initiatives. ET’s Deidre Behar spoke to the 39-year-old actress on the premiere of Gamers, her upcoming Netflix rom-com, and Rodriguez commented on a few of her most highly-publicized roles.
First there’s Carmen Sandiego. Rodriguez voiced the grasp thief in Netflix’s animated collection, and is about to play the half as soon as once more in a live-action movie.
“Carmen Sandiego is a property that’s been around since 80s, 70s, maybe something even more,” Rodriguez instructed ET. “I grew up with Carmen Sandiego.”
As for the explanation for the delay within the live-action challenge, which was first acquired by the streamer in 2018, Rodriguez defined, “It was just about figuring out what it was going to look like outside of what we have seen… with the animations in the past. Then there was a game show. Like, what was this one going to be? We’ll see.”
Whereas Rodriguez promised that she and all others concerned will “put our heart and soul into” the challenge, she declined to spill any additional particulars about what followers can anticipate from the film.
“I don’t want to cross the bridge till I get there, right? ‘Cause art is a journey and it’s been a long journey. The journey is not over. It is very, very far from being over,” she mentioned. “I’ll have more for you in the future. I promise.”
Within the meantime, followers can revisit Jane the Virgin, the present that made Rodriguez a star. The collection, which ran for 5 seasons between 2014 and 2019, is one which Rodriguez has combined emotions about presumably revisiting.
“Jane was such a profound experience in my life. It was such a specific, beautiful, unique project that I don’t ask for more from it,” Rodriguez defined, earlier than noting that, “at the same time, I’m OK jumping back in.”
“It’s one of those things that you’re like, ‘I am so grateful for what that experience was, and the family that it created, and the opportunities it gave me’ — and the experience was just through the roof of an experience — that I am not greedy,” Rodriguez added, earlier than additional admitting that, even with all that being mentioned, it might take “absolutely nothing” for her to return to the function.
“I mean, if Paige Gawley Jennie [Snyder Urman] calls me like after this… I’d be like, ‘Let’s go girl,'” she mentioned.
Gamers will hit Netflix Feb. 14.
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