Halston ~ Gino Franco Rodriguez

“It’s not every day you get the chance to start your acting career like this,” Rodriguez said. “Lots of ups and downs, you hear ‘no’ here, ‘no’ there, and then, just like in the series, you eventually get one ‘yes,’ and then it changes everything.”

Rodriguez immersed himself in the role of Victor Hugo, a Venezuelan window dresser who was Halston’s longtime romantic partner.

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This is the latest in a conscious effort by Netflix to ensure adequate representation in its major productions after a study at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative showed that only 4.5 percent of main cast members in Netflix’s U.S. original films and series released in 2018 and 2019 were Latino. Apart from Rodriguez’s casting,
 Mexican American actress and singer Krysta Rodriguez was cast as Liza Minnelli