MOVE OVER CAPTAIN AMERICA
While in his dressing room during the 2013 off-Broadway production of Here Lies Love, actor Vincent Rodriguez received a voicemail from Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna, co-creators of CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which would change his life forever.
“If you get a chance, I want to talk to you about your audition for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” McKenna said. Minutes before the actor had to go on stage for the theater production’s finale, he contemplated whether to call them back or wait until later. He chose to call.
“Hey Vince,” Rodriguez recalls McKenna saying, like it was yesterday. “‘We just wanted to call and tell you that you got it. You’re Josh Chen. You’re going to be a TV star.’ I just started to cry. I ugly cried. I clutched my pearls kind of cry.”
Rodriguez’s desire for that kind of role began while on a six-month tour of , when he was watching TV and
