'I was raised by my parents to go after what I wanted.' Happy birthday, HereIsGina!
, grew up in a working-class Puerto Rican family in Chicago with two older sisters—one is now a doctor, the other has a career in finance.
“I was raised by my parents to go after what I wanted,” Rodriguez says. “Did they want me to be an actor? No. But they had already created a monster.” At age 7, Rodriguez joined a professional salsa dance company; at 16, she enrolled in an elite theater program for teens at Columbia University; and last December—on the very same day that she received her second Golden Globe nomination, having won the award for best actress in a comedy series the year before—she finally paid off her New York University student loans.
“They wanted a big movie star, so I said, ‘Make me one,’ ” Rodriguez recalls. “Peter told me, ‘I didn’t think you could be not Jane.’ And I was like, ‘I’m not Jane at all! I’m so far from Jane. Period.’ ” Watch all the episodes of “The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice,” a four-part film series by Gia Coppola, here. Produced for Gucci by W magazine.
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