{"id":5084990,"date":"2016-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlatinonews.com\/gina-rodriguez-launches-campaign-to-highlight-latino-actors\/"},"modified":"2016-01-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T05:00:00","slug":"gina-rodriguez-launches-campaign-to-highlight-latino-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/2016\/01\/27\/gina-rodriguez-launches-campaign-to-highlight-latino-actors\/","title":{"rendered":"Gina Rodriguez Launches Campaign To Highlight Latino Actors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n Photo credit: biography.com<br \/>\nShe may not be boycotting the Oscars, or unleashing bitter attacks against the Academy for its lack of diversity, but Gina Rodriguez is rolling up her sleeves and taking action.<br \/>\nThe &#8220;Jane the Virgin&#8221; actress is weighing in on the growing Academy Awards controversy by launching a campaign to highlight the entertainers working hard to put Latino stories on screen.<br \/>\n&#8220;With all this Oscar talk and lack of diversity I decided to start a movement and speak from the perspective of a Latina American who desires to see more Latinos on screen,&#8221; she wrote in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BA-Kd5gHLtf\/?taken-by=hereisgina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Instagram<\/span><\/a> post on Monday. &#8220;There are 55 million Latinos in this country and although we all come from various backgrounds our unity can make a movie explode at the box office or a TV show [soar] to the highest viewers possible.&#8221;<br \/>\nRight now, she noted, there are not Latino stars who can green light a movie from a studio because &#8220;they don\u2019t believe we can make their money back.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I am told time and time again \u2018Latinos don\u2019t watch Latino movies. 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