Everybody else would say, “Let me get a drink before we go.” I was like, “Why? Life is grand! Let’s go!” But back then, I could go to a club and I was like the Energizer Bunny. Not because I was high but because I talked back at her. It was on a home visit, and my mother beat the out of me. It was just like: Yo, this is not for me. But also, my life in Brooklyn, there were so many drug addicts around. Why were you straight edge in those days? The Catholic Church. I didn’t share my childhood with anybody, ever, and I shared it with him that day.
I had a full-blown anxiety attack that we were going to get arrested, and he couldn’t stop laughing at me, called me a cornball. You’re going to write a book of poetry.” And he goes, “I’m gonna be bigger than a book.” I was like, “I know that’s right.” We spent the whole day together.
I want you to see if you like it.” He started reciting the poem, and I was like, “Yo, that’s good. He lay down on the bed and pulled out a notebook and goes, “I wrote this poem. He’s like, “What’re you doing later?” “Nothing.” “All right, I’m gonna come by your room.” He came by my hotel room, and I wasn’t nervous. I was so used to getting friggin’ hit on all the time in the music industry. That smile was wonderful, and he didn’t hit on me. Right now, what memory of him stands out? The first time I met him. Hey, on the subject of hip-hop, I hadn’t realized that you were friends with Tupac Shakur until I read your memoir. If you wanted to get in the circle, if you dared get in the circle, you better get with it. My high was the clubs, and everybody there danced intensely. Coupled with that, I’d come from New York and the club scene, and I was straight edge until my late 20s. I was 19, and I thought that’s what being sexy was. Where did that come from? Because I didn’t know what I was doing. Way back when you were a regular on “Soul Train,” you had this ferocity to your dancing.
“The career has been fantastic,” said Perez, who will be onscreen next in “Birds of Prey,” the latest film in the DC extended universe, and in the director Dee Rees’s Joan Didion adaptation, “The Last Thing He Wanted.” “It could have been - and could be - better.
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Her gift is for unvarnished emotion, a gift made all the more remarkable considering the 55-year-old’s oppressive childhood and at times discouraging professional path. She has never been the kind of actress to disappear into a role, but that has also never been the pleasure of watching Rosie Perez. Whether as a fiery young dancer on “Soul Train,” an underestimated but formidable love interest in “White Men Can’t Jump” and “Do the Right Thing” or a grieving mother in “Fearless,” Rosie Perez has always been brilliantly alive to any given moment’s deepest emotional possibilities.
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