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Roselyn Sanchez Interview
How did you go from beauty pageants and modeling to acting? I don't know. One thing led to the other. I won the pageants and then I left Puerto Rico, my country. I moved to the states to become an actress and I trained for many years, singing, dancing and acting and then started doing TV, little things here and there. Then Rush Hour 2 happened. Has this movie opened a lot of doors? I think so, absolutely. Just the fact that I'm here tonight, I'm presenting this award and I just came back from Germany with Cuba Gooding, Jr. and it's really helping me. I'm very exciting. I read you studied marketing for a while. Why did you get into that field and why did you leave? You know what? My father is a businessman so when he retired, my three brothers didn't go into the business, so I thought I was going to just take over the business and I tried for three years but I was working on TV already on the island and I really didn't like it at all. So, I just told my parents, "You know what? I just can't do it. I'm not interested in business." So, I left and I pursued what I wanted which is acting and singing and all that. What do you love about acting?I think it's fascinating. All my life I've been performing and just the fact that you can play all these different roles that are so removed from who you are. Even though the stuff I'm doing right now is relatively easy, I think in the future I would love to play things that have nothing to do with me and that's good. What did you like about being in an action movie? It was fun. It was just fun. It's so funny because I never saw myself as an action hero and now everybody sees me like that. And I had an amazing time. Christ Tucker and Jackie Chan, it was like a dream working with them. What did they teach you about filmmaking? It was my first big movie and it was a huge movie. The budget was huge. The comedy was huge and I just learned about the dynamic of the business when it's such a big movie and Jackie is the best guy doing what he does. He choreographed everything and he taught me how to do it and he was great. Could you communicate with Zhang Ziyi? Very little. Very little, but she's a beautiful lady and at the end it was a little bit easier. She always had a translator so it was more like hugs and kisses and just facial expressions. In terms of really having a conversation, it was a little tough. How could you play scenes with her when you couldn't talk about characters? Just laughing. We'd just laugh and laugh. How do you stay in shape? I just go to the gym and I'm a dancer, so I dance and dance and dance. Where do you dance? I go to The Edge in Hollywood and I go to dance classes at the Gold's Gym where I go to in Santa Monica and just do it. Just exercise a lot. Will you be dancing in your next movie? I am dancing a little bit in my next movie, Boat Trip, and then next year, hopefully I'm going to have big, big dancing movie that I'm co-writing and it's my dream to do it. Can you talk about that project yet? It's very premature because the script is being finished, but it's called Yellow and it's about a struggling Puerto Rican that moves to New York to make it big as a dancer and doesn't quite make it. But there's a lot of dancing. It's surreal so it's like six music videos within the movie. A story about someone not achieving their dreams is pretty daring. I know, but it's uplifting because I'm going to make it like she touches everybody's life around her, but she dies without knowing that she did that. I hope it's going to be a beautiful drama that I'm going to be able to showcase my dancing. What's your character in Boat Trip? I play a choreographer on a single gay's cruise and Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s the lead and Vivica Fox is the lady. I'm just a Latina, outgoing, very nice, very talented girl that falls in love with Cuba. When presenting the award to Sarkissian, Sanchez said, "I'm so honored to have the opportunity to present this award to you, Arthur. He's someone I hold very, very close to my heart. I have been in the States for almost seven years and as any actress knows, it's up and down, up and down and struggling. For a long time, everybody told me, 'You know what? Just one movie is going to make the difference, one big movie.' I was so blessed to get Rush Hour 2 and a lot of it had to do with Arthur Sarkissian." |
