NEW YORK (AP) – Last pilot season, Jaime Camil had options – two offers for dramas at ABC and Netflix.
Then came a script for The CW’s “Jane The Virgin,” airing Mondays at 9 p.m. EDT, about a young woman who has vowed to remain chaste until marriage but is accidentally artificially inseminated during a routine checkup.
“I was mesmerized. I devoured the script in like 20, 25 minutes,” recalled Camil, in a recent interview.
The only problem? “In the first episode I believe my character speaks five words,” he laughed.
That part was for Rogelio de la Vega, a telenovela star who learns he has an adult daughter who is suddenly a pregnant virgin.