'Jane the Virgin' EP Admits That She Almost Passed on the Opportunity to Produce the Show
The first season of The CW's "Jane the Virgin" was a major hit.
Based on the Venezuelan telenovela "Juana la Virgen," the comedy is about a young Latina who accidentally becomes pregnant by artificial insemination, despite the fact that she is a virgin. Not only has the show received rave reviews from critics, but series star Gina Rodriguez has also won a Golden Globe.
In the Season 1 finale of "Jane the Virgin," Jane finally delivered a healthy baby boy named Mateo, but her newborn baby was kidnapped by Sin Rostro. Meanwhile, Petra took Rafael's swimmers home from the fertility clinic, while it was discovered that Jane's parents, Xo and Rogelio, eloped while they were drunk in Last Vegas.
Despite the show's success, the executive producer recently admitted that she almost passed on the opportunity to work on it. During an interview with Deadline, Jennie Snyder Urman said that her first thoughts about producing "Jane the Virgin" were: "I'm going to pass on that project. It sounds too crazy."
However, after further thought, she decided to take it on.
"I said I'd sit with it for the weekend. I started walking around the neighborhood and I just started to think, 'Can I create circumstances where it could be believable that that could happen? What would that feel like?' And as I started to try to feel the reality of it, it started to become more alive and fun for me; it started to present as this kind of fairytale between fate and destiny," she said.
"After 'Emily Owens' my dad had said to me, 'I really like that show, but why don't you do something more original next time?' I was like, gosh, it's really hard to get a show on the air, so medical seemed a good idea. But I understood what he was saying, which is just that medical shows are done and they're done well. What he was saying was to sort of swing for the fences a little bit more. There was something about that weekend thinking about Jane that it just started to become this whimsical fairytale, and I started to feel inspired by it, and I started to think this could be something that's really different," she added.
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