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Jane the Virgin
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22 Interesting Facts About Jane the Virgin
Interesting Facts (21)
- #001
Jane the Virgin was the first show in the CW's history to earn a Golden Globe nomination.
- #002
Jane's book, "Snow Falling," is a real book you can buy and read.
- #003
The Villanueva family came to the US from Venezuela, but all three actresses playing them are of Puerto Rican descent.
- #004
The show is based on the Venezuelan telenovela "Juana la Virgen."
- #005
In season 2, episode 1, Justin Baldoni's (Rafael) wife and daughter, Emily and Maiya, have small parts in the breastfeeding class scene.
- #006
Rogelio's stepdaughters are played by YouTube's Merrell twins.
- #007
Like his character, Jaime Camil starred in telenovelas and sang their theme songs.
- #008
Listen closely in the final episode and the narrator lets slip at one point that he's actually Jane and Rafael's son, Mateo, though it's never brought up again.
- #009
Rita Moreno (Liliana De La Vega) and Justina Machado (Darci Factor) play mother and daughter on Netflix's One Day at a Time; on Jane the Virgin, Rita plays Rogelio's mother and Justina his baby mama.
- #010
One hundred episodes is the typical run of a Spanish-language telenovela: a hit gets more episodes, a flop gets cut short.
- #011
Spanish-language soaps are split into untitled chapters rather than Hollywood-style episodes, named simply "First Chapter," "Chapter 2" and so on, which is why this comedy, based on a Venezuelan series, titles its episodes "Chapter Two," "Chapter Three" and so on.
- #012
Justin Baldoni's Rafael and Brett Dier's Michael are something like enemies, but in real life Justin and Brett are good friends.
- #013
Rogelio's surname, De La Vega, comes from the love interest in "Juana la Virgen," the telenovela Jane the Virgin loosely adapts, though there De La Vega owns a magazine and is closer to Rafael.
- #014
Brooke Shields plays River Fields, a play on her own name: a river and a brook are both bodies of water, and Fields rhymes with Shields.
- #015
Mateo Gloriano Rogelio Solano Villanueva's baptism was filmed at a church in Los Angeles, not in Florida.
- #016
Brad Silberling directed both the first and last episodes.
- #017
Rogelio De La Vega is far too rich for a telenovela star; Spanish-language actors usually complain about terrible pay, especially next to Hollywood actors.
- #018
Pronouncing "Xiomara" as "Shiomara" isn't very common among Spanish speakers; "Siomara" is far more widespread.
- #019
Ivonne Coll (Alba Villanueva) and Adam Rodriguez (Jonathan Chavez) played mother and son, Mrs. Ramirez and Jesse Ramirez, in season 3 of Roswell (1999).
- #020
Eden Sher (Pond "PJ" Fields) and Brooke Shields (River Fields) play mother and daughter here, while on The Middle Sher plays Sue Heck and Shields guest-starred as the mother of the Glossner boys, the neighborhood troublemakers.
- #021
In episode 7, Petra holds the EpiPen upside down and seems to jab the needle into her own thumb. Pressing down with her thumb was just for effect, since a real epinephrine pen isn't pushed in by hand like a syringe: jabbing it into the leg releases the medicine automatically.
Easter Eggs & References (1)
- #022
In April 2018, the creators confirmed the show would end after season 5, though the show itself had hinted at it months earlier: in season 4, episode 3, Rogelio grumbles all episode that you can't introduce a new character "three-fifths" of the way through, referring to the arrival of Adam, and at the start of season 4, Jane the Virgin was exactly three-fifths of the way through its five-season run.
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