Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University has named actress and author Diane Guerrero the 2023 John J. Rhodes Chair.

As chair, Guerrero will deliver the Rhodes Lecture, “A Conversation with Diane Guerrero,” at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 1st, in the Galvin Playhouse at the ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center on the Tempe campus. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required for seating. Register here.

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Doom Patrol star Diane Guerrero, who plays Jane in the HBO Max drama, breaks down the season 4, part 1 finale and teases what’s coming up in part 2.

Doom Patrol season 4, part 2 drops later in 2023 on HBO Max.

The lovable misfits of Doom Patrol are back with Season 4, featuring an all-new series of whacky and insane adventures. Comprising of Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero), Rita Farr (April Bowlby), Vic Stone (Joivan Wade), Larry Trainor (Matt Bomer / Matthew Zuk), Cliff Steele (Brendan Fraser / Riley Shanahan), and recent addition Madame Rouge (Michelle Gomez), the team has gone up against many surreal and world-ending enemies over their previous seasons. What makes this show so unique though, is the way in which it portrays the characters as deeply-flawed and traumatized people who help each other grow, evolve, and heal. It’s easily one of the best superhero shows currently running and with Season 4, things have gotten better than ever.

This season, the titular team faces a threat unlike anything they’ve seen before: the followers of a god-like being called Immortus who want to steal the Doomies’ youth and longevity to bring their deity to life. In the process, we’ve seen the members of Doom Patrol confront serious questions about their lives and the choices they’ve made over the years. Ahead of Episode 6 “Hope Patrol”, the mid-season finale, Collider caught up with series star Diane Guerrero (who’s also known for her brilliant voice work in Disney’s Encanto) for an interview where we talked about the most recent episode, Jane’s growth and evolution over the course of the season, and how excited she is about the musical episode that is due to arrive with the second batch of Season 4 episodes.

Read the entire interview at Collider.com

Diane Guerrero speaks with Awards Radar’s Abe Friedtanzer about HBO Max’s Doom Patrol.

With three seasons under their belts, the characters in HBO Max’s Doom Patrol have gone on quite the journey and now with the fan favorite series in its fourth season when it comes to Diane Guerrero’s Jane that journey has in part manifested itself in a fashion evolution. Season 4 of Doom Patrol has seen Jane’s style mix it up a bit with a look that is a lot more distinctive and more defined from when we first met her in looking like what Guerrero described as a “shell of herself’ back in Season 1. Now, Guerrero tells ComicBook.com about how Jane’s new look is reflective of the shift in the character’s personality and a mirror to just how much she’s grown.

“As a character evolves … you can just tell she cares a little more,” Guerrero said. “Before she had a very kind of tunnel vision of who she was. She was honestly almost a shell of herself. She’s like, ‘I’m not going to care how I dress.’ She was actually intentionally almost not wanting any attention, not wanting to be seen. She wanted to be off-putting, which I really enjoyed from the character because I had never done that. I was always very concerned about being put together, how people see you.”

She continued, “The first three years I remember coming into wardrobe and telling Carrie, head of wardrobe, ‘I want to look like a clown this year. Give me clown.’ And that was third season. And then towards the end of third season, I was like, ‘I don’t want clown anymore.’ She goes, ‘you said clown, and we’re working with clown this year.’ And so, fourth season I came in, ‘I think Jane’s evolved a little more. I think she wants to be a little more playful with her clothing, but also just a little more put together.’ I think that’s just reflective of how her personality has changed.”

And Jane’s personality has changed a great deal over the three seasons, but her journey is far from over. Guerrero described the place where we find Jane in Season 4 as being a path where it’s almost like watching the character learn to walk as she starts to come into her own.

“She’s in a very interesting place in her life. She’s just found out that Kay has completely disappeared, and Jane has no contact with her or the other personas and she kind of just witnessed Dr. Harrison disappear. And there’s always been this debate, it’s like, where do the personalities go? Do they die? Do they actually die in the well or how do they disappear or how do they move on? So, I think that Jane is kind of tackling her own sense of mortality and her usefulness,” Guerrero told ComicBook.com. “For her entire existence she’s been focusing on protecting kay and she recently finds out that kay doesn’t need her protection and she finds out that Kay actually wants her to find her own purpose. Now she’s just struggling with what the hell is my purpose if it isn’t to protect you? You’ll see through the season, she’s kind of dipping her feet into what it’s like to self-discover, to experiment and to find out what makes you happy.”

She’s kind of going through it right now,” she continued. “But at the same time, there is some levity there. I think the audience is going to be surprised with Jane this season. I think they’re going to see a new side of her. When someone is so focused on just one thing being their thing, like protecting someone else, there’s not much room for yourself. So, it’s kind of like, you’re just going to be witnessing her learning how to walk almost. So, I’m excited for that.”

Doom Patrol airs new episodes Thursdays on HBO Max.

Source: ComicBook.com

Jane (Diane Guerrero) is going through some big changes on this season of HBO Max’s Doom Patrol. Mostly cut off from the personalities she ostensibly leads as part of the collective mindscape known as The Underground, and told by her host body Kay that she needs to figure out who she is on her own, Jane has been on a journey of self-discovery in Season 4.

“There’s so much to explore with Kay, I was excited to explore Jane, as well,” Guerrero told Decider. “It finally happened in such a way that was so personal, self-expression, self-actualization, and finding your identity. One of those was a very intimate, was Jane sort of discovering her sexuality and what that meant in context with being one of the personalities of Kay, especially one that came to protect her at a time that was so sensitive, like at a time when Kay’s body was experiencing sexual abuse.”

Spoilers for today’s episode “Youth Patrol” past this point,

Season 4 of Doom Patrol is well underway on HBO Max and it’s a season that has found its reluctant heroes in an interesting place not just as a team but personally as well. The season thus far has seen them come together as a real time just in time to discover that they might be the catalyst for an apocalyptic event — one that involves carnivorous zombie butts no less — but also sees them each dealing with major changes to their own status quos. For Jane, that means the disappearance of Kay and a disconnect between herself and the other personas. It’s the start of a new journey for Jane and according to star Diane Guerrero, it’s an interesting place for Jane to be and for fans, the path she’s on will be like watching her learn to walk almost — starting to come into her own over the course of the season.

“She’s in a very interesting place in her life. She’s just found out that Kay has completely disappeared, and Jane has no contact with her or the other personas and she kind of just witnessed Dr. Harrison disappear. And there’s always been this debate, it’s like, where do the personalities go? Do they die? Do they actually die in the well or how do they disappear or how do they move on? So, I think that Jane is kind of tackling her own sense of mortality and her usefulness,” Guerrero told ComicBook.com. “For her entire existence she’s been focusing on protecting kay and she recently finds out that kay doesn’t need her protection and she finds out that Kay actually wants her to find her own purpose. Now she’s just struggling with what the hell is my purpose if it isn’t to protect you? You’ll see through the season, she’s kind of dipping her feet into what it’s like to self-discover, to experiment and to find out what makes you happy.”

She’s kind of going through it right now,” she continued. “But at the same time, there is some levity there. I think the audience is going to be surprised with Jane this season. I think they’re going to see a new side of her. When someone is so focused on just one thing being their thing, like protecting someone else, there’s not much room for yourself. So, it’s kind of like, you’re just going to be witnessing her learning how to walk almost. So, I’m excited for that.”

Source: ComicBook.com

Disney+ debuted the trailer for Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl, a magical live-to-film concert experience featuring a special introduction by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

From Disney Branded Television and produced by Fulwell 73, the new Original special will become available to stream on Wednesday, December 28, exclusively on Disney+.

You probably know Diane Guerrero from Orange Is the New Black, where she starred as Maritza Ramos, a tough-talking Bronx woman with Colombian roots — and thrice won Screen Actors Guild Awards with the cast for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.

Now, she is returning for the fourth season of Doom Patrol, an action-drama series based on characters created for DC Comics by Arnold Drake, Bob Haney, and Bruno Premiani. It follows a group of superheroes who each have suffered accidents that gave them superhuman abilities. Together, they are a group of outsiders who fight to save the world that doesn’t want them.

The series features an all-star cast of superheroes, including Robotman (Brendan Fraser), Negative Man (Matt Bomer), Elasti-Woman (April Bowlby), and Cyborg (Joivan Wade), and now former supervillain Madame Rouge (Michelle Gomez) is joining the group too. Guerrero stars as Crazy Jane, whose superpower is having 64 alternate identities, each of whom has their own superpower. It’s complex, to say the least. Not only that, but she’s also the first actor to ever play Crazy Jane on-screen, which Guerrero considers a huge honor.

Season four of Doom Patrol premieres with two episodes on December 8 on HBO Max, followed by one episode weekly through January 5. In the fourth season, the team of superheroes travels to the future to find an unpleasant surprise. Guerrero speaks with Shondaland about season four, the importance of mentors, the power of kindness, and why she identifies with Crazy Jane.

Visit Shondaland to read the full interview

There’s a new trailer for the upcoming fourth season of Doom Patrol!