Perspective | 'Someone Great' delivers something different: A Latina lead we haven’t seen before
“Someone Great” is not your average rom-com, and its protagonist, Jenny, played by Gina Rodriguez, is not your stereotypical Latina.
While Jenny’s offbeat humor, ravenous career drive and nuanced relationships portray a Latinidad, or Latin identity, uncommon on the big screen, her Spanglish and “Latina AF” T-shirt show she is far from denying her cultural heritage. As a Colombian-American raised across two continents with an adolescent addiction to all things alternative, I saw myself in Jenny’s embrace of the eccentric and in her adaptable identity.
Jenny leans into her idiosyncrasies. She talks sweat, sex and body hair with abandon. She day-drinks and dances pantless to playlists that swerve from Lizzo to LCD Soundsystem. Her personal style can be described as ’90s chic and careless; As RuPaul’s character Hype tells Jenny, “You look crazy, but also real sexy.” Rodriguez’s performance shows us a Latinidad by addition, not subtraction.
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