Gina

**Gina** was one of the three female protagonists in Sky Rojo. A former prostitute who escaped the Las Novias Club in Tenerife with her two best friends Coral and Gina she journeyed for her freedom, before being killed by her ex-pimp Romeo on a boat trip, dying in Season 3, Episode 4. She was portrayed by Yany Prado.

## Background

Gina was a native of Havana, Cuba, she was born a normal girl into a family who struggled with a lack of opportunities and money. Gina also became a single mother of one son Carlito, but she and her family lacked money to provide well for him.

Gina, hoped for a better life, and thought her luck had come when she was offered a job by a male employer, as a waitress in Spain but upon agreeing, found herself tricked and manipulated, smuggled into a mafia run brothel the Las Novias Club, where she was forced into sexual slavery under duress by pimps.

## Appearance

Gina was an attractive, young Afro Latina lady with a tall, slender, curvy and athletic build. She had brown skin, curly dark hair and brown eyes. Gina usually wore her long hair loose and wore numerous outfits throughout the story, including dresses, bikinis, swim suits, and more, perhaps her most iconic outfit was a long sleeved rainbow crop top with a matching mini-skirt and boots, she wore several times including on a heist.

By the start of season 3, she appeared heavily pregnant with a large bump.

## Personality

Gina is one of the three heroines of the series, she was the most peaceful, gentle and arguably the most pure-hearted, innocent and vulnerable of the group. She was very sweet and kind and later shown to be extremely brave, quick thinking, tactical and clever. Growing in strength, stealth, smarts and independence, throughout her escape from Romeo, having fled the brothel, Las Novias Club and becoming one of their most formidable enemies.

Gina was initially optimistic and excited on a new opportunity to have a waitressing job in Spain and of course heartbroken to find herself the victim of a scam.

She was shown to be the first sex worker to rebel against Romeo, who set off the motion of her Coral and Wendy escaping, where after Romeo discussed her finances, Gina hit him and tried to knock him out with a blunt object.

Gina was also very charming, romantic, idealistic, genuine, and friendly. Holding onto hope during her bleak time in Las Novias where she hoped to find romantic love. This mindset and many of these traits charmed her clients, including an elderly war veteran and a motel owner named Fernando, the latter she shared a brief romance with. She also later won the heart of a divorced kind-hearted male diver named Toni.

## Throughout the Series

### Season 1

She, Wendy and Coral go on the run in search of freedom while being chased by Romeo, their pimp from Las Novias Club, and his henchmen, Moisés and Christian. Together, the three embark on a frantic, chaotic journey during which they must face dangers of all kinds and live every second as if it were their last, while strengthening their friendship and discovering the most important thing: that together they are stronger and have more options to recover their lives.

## Relationships

**Best Friends**- Coral and Wendy were Gina's best friends, they met at the Las Novias Club where they went from colleagues to friends, and eventually sister figures, over the course of the whole series.