Viva Latina!
I have a business associate of mine who's working with a filmmaker on getting a decently budgeted action-adventure project off the ground (yeah -- another one of those), and the script calls for a Latin-American woman who will play a mid-thirties in age wife/mother character who's an integral part of the action/adventure plot rather than a stand-and-scream mom.
He asked me if I had any ideas as to an actress I thought might be a good choice for such a role, and Patricia Velasquez immediately came to mind -- a stunningly beautiful supermodel/actress who's the right age range and has already proved herself capable of handling the action genre in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns.
But I thought I'd ask readers visiting this site if they had ideas to offer of their own. I mean, the bigger the suggestion pool, the better. Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?
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I know I'm gonna get yelled at for this, but does this Latina actress have to speak English?
There's plenty of talented Latina actresses from Mexican soap operas (and when I say "talented" I mean "holy crap that chick is hot") that I can think of, but I doubt they'd speak English like Sophia Vergara.
I've seen some Latina actresses proudly proclaiming the ethnicity while making the rounds in crappy art films (Seidy Lopez, Charlotte Ayanna).
Some Latina actresses have been flexible enough to not raise their fists and shout "VIVA LA RAZA" and play character roles in TV shows (Samantha Esteban)
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Homocon sez:
Uhm, yes -- English would be nice. Didn't I say Latin-American?
Posted by: Scott | December 17, 2005 7:20 PM
Thalia? She's an international super-sensation, so much so that mosques in Abidjan changed the prayer time during Ramadan so folks wouldn't miss Marimar. Plus they could work in a song.
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Homocon sez:
Yes, a bouncy little romantic number as the bullets are flying . . . *cracking up*
She's an interesting choice. Her main claim to fame seems to be for shaking her booty rather than reacting to a green screen, but casting her would generate heat for the project.
Do you think she'd be right for an action flick? Most of her work appears to be directed toward telenovela stuff.
Of course, then you'd have to deal with her husband, which might be more than an independently financed project could bear . . .
Favorite Thalia quote: "I don't know what happens to me when I'm on stage. Now, I am like a little kiddie cat prrrr and when I'm on the stage, I am like a lion grrrr. Forget it."
Posted by: beautifulatrocities | December 19, 2005 7:49 AM
Unrelated: check it out:
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Posted by: beautifulatrocities | December 19, 2005 9:11 AM
If only there were video footage of Timberiche, a Mexican Menudo-type group that included the teen Thalia & her archenemy Paulina Rubio. That one ended in a wild onstage catfight & Paulina Rubio slugging Thalia onstage.
Paulina: "I was trying to get the microphone, & she didn’t want to let me have it, so we started fighting. We were rolling all around on the floor. The audience didn’t know it was a real fight. I was little, but I was fast, & I won. I really wanted that microphone."
Paulina & entourage also crashed Thalia's greatest hits release party last year, much to Thalia's displeasure.
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Homocon sez:
I went searching on the web and couldn't find a video clip of the catfight, either -- which seems odd, as it's the kind of clip that the Internet was practically invented to distribute . . .
Posted by: beautifulatrocities | December 19, 2005 11:45 AM
Oh hell no...
You guys are killin' me with this. Just get one of those no-name hot chicks from a Mexican soap opera that speaks passable English.
At age 35, Mexican TV throws away those chicks because they know at any given time there are at least 14,842,317 Latina actresses in Central America between the ages of 17-23 willing to do some casting couch craziness that a 35 year-old is "above" at that stage in her career.
You could be finding the "next Salma Hayek" (who has gone from pushing 35 to slapping the hell out of 40 and is consided by Hollywood to be old and busted).
Hot chick. Mexican soap opera. Win-win.
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Homocon sez:
Has anyone ever told you that you border on the deranged? Wait a minute, of course someone has already told you that . . .
They're looking for a Latin-American actress who speaks fluent English, not passable English. The character is married to an American(ish) man and they have two children, live in Los Angeles and work in Hollywood.
The casting for the male lead is another topic altogether. I'm partial to the Thomas Jane, Gerard Butler, Cole Hauser kind of actor.
I haven't been asked my input on the male lead, yet I'd be so very helpful . . .
Posted by: Scott | December 19, 2005 1:28 PM
I vote Cole Hauser. The Phantom of the Opera and The Punisher aren't doin' it for me.
Hey, I think you're right about that deranged thing because somebody I was talking to the other d-- wait, didn't you tell me I was deranged when I was bothering you over the weekend?
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Homocon sez:
Have you seen The Punisher?
Good, cheesy, bone-cracking, bullet-ridden fun. Thomas Jane kicks ass in it, and John Travolta's character is delightfully evil.
Gerard Butler was also in Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life and Reign of Fire, so don't start getting all squeamish about him just because he was in Phantom of the Opera.
Posted by: Scott | December 19, 2005 3:27 PM
It was B.I. (before Internet).
Salma - who's not exactly a Mensa member - started in a Mexican soap alongside another gorgeous ingenue moonbat, Gael Garcia Bernal.
Posted by: beautifulatrocities | December 19, 2005 5:09 PM