Gina Rodriguez hopes 'Miss Bala' paves the way for more Latino-led films
LOS ANGELES - It was around this time seven years ago that Gina Rodriguez was deemed the "It" girl out of the Sundance Film Festival with her role as a struggling East L.A. rapper in the hip-hop drama "Filly Brown." Maybe it was naivete, but she had hoped the attention would bring the same sort of career boost it had brought other young ingenues, such as Carey Mulligan or Jennifer Lawrence.
"I thought I was going to have a trajectory like Jennifer Lawrence had," she says. "But I don't look like Jennifer Lawrence, and this industry doesn't take me the way they take a woman that looks like Jennifer Lawrence - and that's no divisiveness at all. That just is what it is."
These days, she's trying to change the way it is. And not just for herself.
Since becoming a household name in her own
