“It’s a whole process,” Michaela Jaé Rodriguez says by phone from her Newark home about her morning routine. It’s the same house she lived in as a child and then bought from her mom.
Rodriguez, best known for her role as Blanca Rodriguez-Evangelista in the FX series Pose, starts with meditation and music, whether its Lo-fi or ambient sound like rain falling. Then, there are twenty minutes of stretching and daily affirmations in the mirror, where she’ll give herself “some boost,” followed by a lengthy skin-care process.
All of this takes place before heading out the door for performances across the river in The Rocky Horror Show, her Broadway debut…