Jane The Virgin star Gina Rodriguez makes TV return
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Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez is set to make her TV return with ABC's brand-new pilot comedy, Not Dead Yet.
The show is based on Alexandra Potter's international bestselling novel Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up, published in 2020, and will see Rodriguez leading the cast, according to Deadline.
The novel follows broke and newly single Nell, who moves back home to Pasadena where everyone seems to have a better life than her – marriages, babies, great jobs.
However, her lack of a job means she can only afford to share an apartment with a stranger who pesters her about her electricity usage and her recycling habits.
Once a successful journalist, following her break-up she takes the only job she can get – writing obituaries – which at first seems like a step backward but ultimately may be exactly what she needs to move forward.
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The actress has previously opened up about her struggles with anxiety and depression, where she suffered debilitating panic attacks during filming for the final season of Jane The Virgin.
"There was a point where I couldn't, I couldn't push through every single time anymore," she told NBC's Kate Snow at the Kennedy Forum in 2019.
"And I'm one of those human beings, and I know either you're it or you know who they are, where I'm just like, 'I'll handle it later. I'll deal with it later. I'll figure it out later. I just have to do this now.' All the while dealing with this, you know, your silent little dragon in your head."
"This season was the first season where I had to stop production. I had a really tumultuous season and I was unafraid for the first time to be like, 'I can't.'"
We would encourage anyone who identifies with the topics raised in this article to reach out. Organisations who can offer support include Samaritans on 116 123 (www.samaritans.org) or Mind on 0300 123 3393 (www.mind.org.uk). Readers in the US are encouraged to visit mentalhealth.gov or the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
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