Although this is true for the general wage gap, it is not true for Hollywood, which people were quick to point out.

In an interview with radio show Sway in the Morning, to promote her new film Miss Bala, Rodriguez has finally addressed the comments, saying that she was talking about the wider pay gap in the Porter interview.

“I wasn’t speaking about my industry,” she said. “I always find it difficult to talk about equal pay as a woman who makes a substantial amount of money… What I was saying was that when we talk about equal pay, we have to talk about intersectionality, because we all must rise.”

Rodriguez said the “black community was the only community that I looked towards growing up” because “we didn’t have many Latino shows, and the black community made me feel like I was seen”. She said the response to the Porter interview was “devastating”.

Becoming emotional, she added: “So to get anti-black is saying that I’m anti-family. My father is dark-skinned, he’s Afro-Latino… If anything, the black community is my community. As Latinos, we have black Latinos. That is what we are. I am not, so I think that when I speak about Latino advocacy people believe I only mean people of my skin colour.

Gina Rodriguez gives emotional response to criticism that she's anti-black