We’re just hours away from the final season premiere of Jane the Virgin!
In “Chapter Eighty-Two”, Jane (Gina Rodriguez) makes a shocking discovery and looks to Rafael (Justin Baldoni) for answers but is confused by his decision to put everything he and Jane have on hold.
Meanwhile, Petra (Yael Grobglas) is trying to secure a future with the hope of it being with JR (Rosario Dawson), but her past might jeopardize everything.
Jane the Virgin airs TONIGHT, March 27th @ 9PM ET/PT on The CW.
Tonight’s the premiere of the final season of Jane the Virgin and we’re about to get all our answers about the return of Michael answered.
Showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman chatted with TV Guide about the comeback of the character, played by Brett Dier, into Jane’s (Gina Rodriguez) life.
“His return just turns [Jane’s] life upside down in every single way,” she shared. “The events of the finale and that last image of this person…is ostensibly Michael—you will find out right away if it is or isn’t Michael, and it throws everything into flux, every character into flux.”
She adds, “It affects the whole season. It really sets us up on our arc for the season.”
How does that change Jane and Rafael’s (Justin Baldoni) relationship, if at all?
“What I can say is that the selfless act of Rafael bringing Michael back, hearing that Michael is alive and bringing him back to her, is a sacrifice and a move that I don’t think Season 1 Rafael would have done.”
Jennie continues, “The selflessness of it is romantic for Jane. But the events of the finale resonate throughout this whole [season].”
Jane the Virgin is back TONIGHT @ 9PM ET/PT on The CW.
Jane The Virgin‘s final season is back tomorrow and showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman is dishing all about the easter eggs fans might see in the new episodes.
Talking during the show’s Paleyfest event, she shared that there would be callbacks to the pilot.
“There are a lot of echoes of the pilot in this first script, and that’s going to be something that we’re continuing through the season,” she shared. “…seeing how people have evolved and how you can be in a similar situation but everything is different about it now, and how five years have changed us.”
Jennie also spoke to TV Guide about why the fifth season was the best time to end the show.
“I just felt like I always have to think about the seasons and just how much story I really have in terms of Jane’s journey. I just really didn’t want to be spinning wheels. And I didn’t want to be repeating the same mistakes that the characters make because then you start to feel like, ‘Come on! Pull it together.’”
She continued, “When I really think about it, I have to think about the spine of the season, one whole story to be told, and I felt like [Season] 5 was about as much as I [could] do without it starting to get repetitive, without characters starting to take steps backwards in ways that maybe wouldn’t be organic. And also, just how much juice I think we had in the central stories before we got to a natural ending.”
Jane The Virgin will premiere March 26th @ 9PM ET/PT on The CW.
Gina Rodriguez strikes a pose on the blue carpet at the 2019 PaleyFest on Wednesday night (March 21) at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.
The 34-year-old actress looked pretty in a black blouse and leopard-print skirt as she attended the event to promote the final season of Jane the Virgin.
The upcoming Jane the Virgin spinoff announced that the up and coming actress has signed on as the main character of the pilot order.
“Beyond blessed.🥰 It takes hard work. But this. T H I S. Makes it all worth it. ❤️❤️❤️ I cannot wait to share this story with you. The script is AMAZING. 🔥The producing team feels like family. 💕I am the luckiest girl in the world. Let’s do this. 💃🏽#comingsoon #actress #hollywood #hustle #janethenovela #thecw,” Jacqueline wrote on Instagram after the news broke. This will be her first big role.
Jane the Novela will be an anthology series that follows one of Jane’s fictional novels each season with the character narrating the story. The first season “will take place at a Napa Valley vineyard, where family secrets (and family members) don’t stay buried for long,” according to THR.
When Michael popped up in the final moments of the season four finale of Jane The Virgin – social media definitely had some thoughts about it – just like the characters are having in the very first promo for the final season.
Jane does a double take, Rogelio faints, and Petra just can’t seem to find the right words to say hi.
Showrunner Jennie Snyder-Urman revealed that Michael is really Michael, and not a long-lost twin at all, in a recent interview.
“It’s suspicion meets with shock meets with the place Michael is currently in…It’s a few things working together that will cause a lot of the drama when we come back,” she said.
The new season will maybe bring a Secret Life of the American Teenager situation too – with Jane choosing herself over Michael or Rafael.
Jane The Virgin premieres on March 27th on The CW.