Rosie Perez At “The Ritz”, Actress Talks About Her Broadway Show, Race, Politics

Spend just a few minutes with Rosie Perez and you know she is being totally honest when she says, “I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.”

She is proud of a career that includes an Oscar nomination for “Fearless” – a star making role in Spike Lee’s, “Do the Right Thing” and her current starring role as Googie Gomez, a singer in a gay bathhouse in “The Ritz.” Taking the role was at first intimidating, Perez says, because the part was originally played by Rita Moreno – the Puerto Rican actress who won a Tony. Perez says that Moreno, who also won an Emmy, Grammy, and an Oscar, was Perez’s idol growing up and inspired generations of Latino and Hispanic women who followed her to stage and screen. “*

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