Rosie Perez Begins Boricua Bitchfest Against JLo
The Puerto Rican actress Rosie Perez, apparently with nothing else to do, wants to take credit for “discovering” Jennifer Lopez when she was still an unknown dancer on the television series “In Living Color.” In an interview with Michael Musto in Out magazine, she says:
I’m the one that hired Jennifer Lopez, even though she tells everyone Keenan Ivory Wayans was. He didn’t want her because she was overweight and didn’t dance well, but I said, ‘She has star quality.’
Meow! Oh Rosie, just because JLo stole such stellar roles from you like Gigli and Maid in Manhattan doesn’t mean you have to be a perra about it.
Rosie Perez Says She Discovered Jennifer Lopez [Hollywood Grind]
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The conspicuous absence of comments to this post just reinforces the point: Rosita just keeps laboring in obscurity.
Posted by pocho_guey_al_norte | October 16, 2007
She says that like she is proud to have “discovered” her. She needs to be shot. Animals leave sh*t in the park and street all the time but I don’t go around saying I “discovered” it.
Posted by MrsZ | October 16, 2007
Leave Rosie alone, yo. I think she knows what she talking about since she was In Living Color’s choreographer. And she’s not in obscurity; she’s done a lot for Boricuas on the mainland and on the island. Instead of talking shit go rent Yo soy Boricua, pa’que tu lo sepas! and The Ritz which is playing now AND getting amazing reviews. I love this woman. She’s inspiring and real.
Posted by cacy | October 16, 2007
I’m not so sure about leaving the matter be.
Inspiring and real— helpful categories, and I can’t disagree with you on that. In fact she’s bankrolling her Yo soy Boricua project, deserving of mad props. But the world of celebrity, querido cacy plays by rules as arcane and fucked up as a caudillo’s whims.
Considering that Rosie was working for Keenan Ivory Wayans when she discovered JLO and gave her a job, he technically kind of did give JLO her break, and Rosie was his proxy. Even though he didn’t think highly of Jenny, he trusted Rosie against his own judgment. Hierarchy: it’s among the cruel ways capitalism works to make celebrities. Bosses take credit for their underlings’ work.
And in the exposure and PR horserace, JLO’s beating Rosie out; and that horrible celebrity investor within all of us that loves everything all perfect and pretty doesn’t like seeing a star being attacked. Which is why Rosie looks like she’s crying sour grapes. It was her gaffe to make, and she made it, coming off as catty as ever, as ‘honest’ and ‘real’ as she was being.
Rosie needs a good publicity coach, or to become a Luis Guzman-type character. Like a Kevin Costner’s Crash Davis to Tim Robbins’ Nuke Laloosh in Bull Durham.
Sorry, the Red Sox are playing right now. And Manny just hit a homer.
Posted by pocho_guey_al_norte | October 16, 2007