{"id":2072,"date":"2001-08-07T17:58:05","date_gmt":"2001-08-07T15:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2001\/08\/hollywood-reporter-rodriguez-lands-in-roswell\/"},"modified":"2015-05-15T11:54:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T09:54:53","slug":"hollywood-reporter-rodriguez-lands-in-roswell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2001\/08\/hollywood-reporter-rodriguez-lands-in-roswell\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Reporter: Rodriguez lands in &#8216;Roswell,..&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to desha and anyone else who may have sent this in for this :)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Rodriguez lands in &#8216;Roswell,&#8217; will spark romance<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Nellie Andreeva<\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES (The Hollywood Reporter) &#8212; Adam Rodriguez (CBS&#8217; &#8220;Brooklyn<br \/>\nSouth&#8221;) has joined the cast of the teen sci-fi drama &#8220;Roswell&#8221; from 20th<br \/>\nCentury Fox TV, which is going into its third season and its first on UPN.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez, who will be introduced in the season opener, will play a young<br \/>\nlawyer who works for the firm of Isabel (Katherine Heigl) and Max (Jason<br \/>\nBehr) Evans&#8217; father in Roswell, N.M.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He had a very charming, very real quality,&#8221; executive producer Jason Katims<br \/>\nsaid of Rodriguez&#8217;s audition. While the goal in casting the role was to get<br \/>\nthe best actor possible, Katims said he is happy that in this case their<br \/>\nchoice happened to be a Latino. &#8220;It&#8217;s something we&#8217;ve wanted to do, and it<br \/>\nreflects the population of New Mexico,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The young attorney played by Rodriguez will be the first love interest for<br \/>\nIsabel in the series. &#8220;Our plans are to have their relationship accelerate<br \/>\nvery fast and very far,&#8221; Katims said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to adding Rodriguez, who will be the only new regular on the<br \/>\nshow this coming season, &#8220;Roswell&#8221; is beefing up its writing staff.<\/p>\n<p>Melinda Metz, who wrote the &#8220;Roswell High&#8221; book series, on which the TV<br \/>\ndrama is based, and the book series&#8217; editor Laura Burns have joined the show<br \/>\nas writers.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his role on &#8220;Roswell,&#8221; Rodriguez has a recurring role on<br \/>\nShowtime&#8217;s original series &#8220;Resurrection Blvd.&#8221; Last season, he starred in<br \/>\nUPN&#8217;s short-lived Aaron Spelling drama &#8220;All Souls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez, whose credits also include stints on &#8220;Felicity&#8221; and &#8220;Ryan<br \/>\nCaufield: Year One,&#8221; is repped by Writers &#038; Artists Agency and manager Abe<br \/>\nHoch of Magus Entertainment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to desha and anyone else who may have sent this in for this :) Rodriguez lands in &#8216;Roswell,&#8217; will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2370,3],"tags":[988],"coauthors":[2273],"class_list":["post-2072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-rodriguez","category-leading","tag-adam-rodriguez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28831,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions\/28831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}