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 craft. The films the hosts said they worked on, which the two lists below run through too: In Living Color. Count them as actor (7 films) 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.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

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

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

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)