When You’re One Of TV’s Rare Latina Leads, You Have To Prove Yourself In Many Arenas (Including The Climbing Wall)

Jaina Lee Ortiz is starring in a show about firefighters, so naturally, she “signed herself up for the firefighter’s Candidate Physical Abilities Test as soon as she landed the Station 19 role, running up flights of stairs in weighted gear, dragging a 165-pound dummy out of a building.” And going on climbing walls for “moving meditation,” of course.