Rosie Perez

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q234076: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Do the Right Thing (1989); White Men Can't Jump (1992); Fearless (1993); Untamed Heart (1993); It Could Happen to You (1994); Night on Earth; Perdita Durango. Count them as craft (1 film) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Shopping for Death: 1 line

  1. lineage (inspiration) · through Do the Right Thing (1989), which they acted in: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Shopping for Death ⇒ Do the Right Thing (the host's read). Spike got the idea after seeing the Hitchcock Presents episode where characters theorize hot weather increases violence.
    “Spike Lee 1st got the idea for this film after watching the Alfred Hitchcock presents episode shopping for death”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:06:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Eleanor Bumpurs: 1 line

  1. lineage (real-events inspiration) · through Do the Right Thing (1989), which they acted in: Eleanor Bumpurs ⇒ Do the Right Thing (the host's read). The film was inspired by Howard Beach and Eleanor Bumpers, plus a list of other deaths in 1980s New York.
    “It was also inspired, as you mentioned, by the Howard Beach racial incident in Eleanor Bumpers.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:06:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Rafael Yglesias: 1 line

  1. lineage (source) · through Fearless (1993), which they acted in: Rafael Yglesias ⇒ Fearless (the host's read). Weir loved the unpublished-novel first-draft script, adapted by its own author.
    “He adapts his own unpublished book.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:11:17 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

25th Hour (2002): 1 line

  1. lineage (callback) · through Do the Right Thing (1989), which they acted in: Do the Right Thing ⇒ 25th Hour (the host's read). 25th Hour repeats the racial slur montage as Ed Norton's mirror monologue; Wesley says the repeats made the original less effective for him but 25th Hour has greatness.
    “There's a 25th hour version of that too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Inside Man (2006): 1 line

  1. lineage (callback) · through Do the Right Thing (1989), which they acted in: Do the Right Thing ⇒ Inside Man (the host's read). In Inside Man the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages.
    “In Lee's 2006 film Inside Man, the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:15:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Jungle Fever (1991): 1 line

  1. theme (thematic follow-up) · through Do the Right Thing (1989), which they acted in: Do the Right Thing ⇒ Jungle Fever (the host's read). Jungle Fever explored the Bensonhurst setting a couple of years later, rehearsing part of that story.
    “which I think is explored in jungle fever a couple years later”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:14:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70 sure it was them)

Quentin Tarantino: 1 line

  1. unmapped (borrowed line) · through Do the Right Thing (1989), which they acted in: Do the Right Thing ⇒ Quentin Tarantino (the host's read). Sean says Tarantino lifted the 'shoot me in a dream, wake up and apologize' line from Do the Right Thing into Reservoir Dogs.
    “you shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize, which is something that I think Robin Harris says in the movie, which later appears in Reservoir Dogs”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:50:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Red Hook Summer (2012): 1 line

  1. lineage (pseudo-sequel) · through Do the Right Thing (1989), which they acted in: Do the Right Thing ⇒ Red Hook Summer (the host's read). Mookie reappears delivering for a Sal's that has relocated to Red Hook, though Spike insisted it was not a sequel.
    “he made a movie called Red Hook Summer.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:19:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Tron: Legacy (2010): 1 line

  1. craft (visual reference) · through Fearless (1993), which they acted in: Fearless ⇒ Tron: Legacy (the host's read). The 1993 Bridges look was the reference for the de-aged CGI Bridges in Tron: Legacy.
    “I believe that this was the main visual reference for creepy CGI Jeff Bridges and Tron Legacy.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:52:17 · Tim Simons (0.40 sure it was them)

True Romance (1993): 1 line

  1. unmapped (borrowed speech) · through Do the Right Thing (1989), which they acted in: Do the Right Thing ⇒ True Romance (the host's read). The Sicilians-and-Moors speech in True Romance echoes what Mookie says to Pino in Sal's.
    “Well, Sicilians and and Africans and the Moors in that whole speech that appears in true romance, which is also something that Mookie essentially says to Pino”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:51:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Wes Anderson: 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through Do the Right Thing (1989), which they acted in: Do the Right Thing ⇒ Wes Anderson (the host's read). Direct address to camera (Mr. Senor Love Daddy and the like) was taken up by the whole indie revolution, Wes Anderson most of all.
    “Using direct address into the camera as a style, which has been now jacked by basically the whole indie revolution that came after him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:50:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Craft (2) everyone in craft

Acting (11) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (5)

  1. career (career): Rosie Perez → In Living Color. Perez came to acting from choreographing the Fly Girls on In Living Color; Do the Right Thing was her first movie.
    “she's, of course, a Flygirl choreographer on a living color, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 2:14:27 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (post-Oscar career): Rosie Perez → It Could Happen to You. After her Fearless nomination she was a third lead or best friend in smaller films.
    “And then the run after this is like, it could happen to you.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 2:15:08 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Marisa Tomei → Rosie Perez. Both risk being pigeonholed by one defining ethnic character: Mona Lisa for Tomei, White Men Can't Jump for Perez.
    “that happened with Rosie with white men can't jump, but definitely Marissa”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:21:38 · Wesley Morris (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. career (career run): Rosie Perez → White Men Can't Jump. Soon after this movie Rosie Perez had a great run through White Men Can't Jump, Fearless, and Untamed Heart.
    “I mean, white men can't jump. It's not that it's pretty soon after this, and she's amazing in that movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:57:53 · Wesley Morris (0.75 sure it was them)
  5. career (career run): Rosie Perez → Untamed Heart. Rosie Perez is also really good in Untamed Heart opposite Marisa Tomei and Christian Slater.
    “She's also really good in that movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:58:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (discovery): Spike Lee → Rosie Perez. Spike met Rosie Perez in a Brooklyn club and cast her though she said she was not an actress.
    “he says you want to be in my movie, and she says, I'm not an actress, and he says, yes, you are.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:35:27 · Wesley Morris (0.65 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (choreographer): Rosie Perez → Jennifer Lopez. Rosie was choreographing the Fly Girls at the time, including a then-unknown J-Lo.
    “Rosie was working with J-Lo.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:36:17 · Wesley Morris (0.55 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Rosie Perez: On the WTF podcast she said that crew asked if she was okay after takes because the emotion looked extreme, and that she only began processing her childhood after the film.
    “And that it was Fearless was one of the things where everyone was just like, are you okay during the scenes?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 2:17:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)