‘Jane The Virgin’ Star Gina Rodriguez To Produce Netflix Movie ‘Someone Great’

“Jane the Virgin” star Gina Rodriguez is taking on a new project. The Latina actress will star and produce a new Netflix movie titled “Someone Great,” which Jennifer Kaytin Robinson will direct.

Robinson is the creator of the MTV show, “Sweet/Vicious,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Someone Great” will be her directorial debut. Aside from Rodriguez’s I Can and I Will Productions, Paul Feig and Jessie Henderson of Feigco will be producing the movie, together with Anthony Bregman and Peter Cron of Likely Story.

“Someone Great” is the story of a woman who suffers from a difficult break-up. To move on, she goes on an adventure in New York City with two of her best friends before deciding to move across the country for her dream job.

The movie, which is about loss, growing up and the power of female friendships, is slated to start production on April.

Rodriguez is known for playing the lead role in “Jane the Virgin,” and she also took on a tougher role for the film, “Annihilation.” The two roles could not be more different. In the former, Rodriguez plays a sweet and idealistic Jane Gloriana Villanueva who has strong morals and close family ties. In the latter, she plays the foul-mouthed lesbian paramedic named Anya Thorensen who has so many complex layers.

Speaking to USA Today about the two roles, Rodriguez said that it felt great to be working on something so different. While she loves Jane, she cannot help but feel excited being on Anya’s shoes.

“That’s all I want to do is play pretend and tell stories and do all kinds of crazy different things. On Jane, I get to do magical realism; I get to play in the 1920s and be a rapper and be a dominatrix and all these things that for like 30 seconds out of the episode they escape Jane, this normal girl you get to see and follow. It’s really nice to escape for longer periods of time like this,” she said.

She also enjoyed another milestone when she recently directed “Chapter Seventy-Four” of “Jane the Virgin” Season 4. “I found myself enjoying directing and acting [simultaneously] so much because I feel so instinctual with Jane,” she shared with Variety.

“Jane the Virgin” Season 4 airs Fridays on The CW at 9 p.m. EST.