Gina Rodriguez will do anything to get into character.
The Golden Globe winning actress showed off the shaved ‘do she’s sporting for her upcoming action film, “Annihilation,” in the pages of Latina’s October issue.
Rodriguez, 32, plays Anya Thorensen, a lesbian paramedic from Chicago who joins four other women tasked with saving the world.
“I am not my beauty,” Rodriguez said of chopping her hair off. “Who I am is not my f–king hair, and to be an actor is to transform.”
“To represent a community is to commit, to give my entire all,” she added. “So if I’m going to represent Latinos in the industry and in art, if I’m going to represent my little cousins in Chicago, they’re going to know that I went full-out. Who are we afraid of? What are we afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is we die. Anything else you can handle.”
Rodriguez is well aware of her role model status.
“A strong leader is one who creates other leaders,” said Rodriguez, who started “Movement Monday,” an initiative to make Hollywood more diverse.
“So if I am encouraging young girls to take control of their lives, to spread kindness, then I am doing the job God put me here to do. With every attempt we make within the industry, with every project I take, it will be to advance women. Not only women of color but all women and men.”
“Annihilation” hits theaters in 2017.