Not all celebrities are shallow, crashing bores: Case in point - Rosario Dawson

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From Mother Jones:


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Mother Jones: Why do you suppose that actors work so hard to remain apolitical?

Rosario Dawson: From Marilyn Monroe and beyond, that’s a huge part of Hollywood, creating a persona that’s mysterious and fairly simple, though it’s interesting how that’s changing: Now, you have fans who are like, “Um, yeah, I just emailed with Barack Obama and tweeted with Lady Gaga, so I’m kinda right there with you; give it to me.” I get that people are a little allergic to celebrities using their voices, but I grew up a squatter on the Lower East Side, so it’s kind of a given that I’d have very strong opinions on everything from cyclical violence to teenage pregnancy to environmental justice.

MJ: You don’t see mainstream films being made about poor people very often. Winter’s Bone, about life deep in the Appalachia, was made because it was backed by someone who was independently wealthy. It seems like the types of movies that are made could change if budgets are smaller, you can communicate wholly different messages to a worldwide audience.

RD: People watch more documentaries too now. These movies that would normally be shown in these little art houses, and unless you walked by the theater, or happened to read that tiny zine that contained the info for it, or went to a film festival, you might miss it. But now your average Joe can go: "I watched all the action movies on my playlist, now let me see what’s playing in documentaries, see if there’s anything I like there. I’ll watch this one on sports, and I’ll watch this other one, and then, all right, let me see this one on the private-prison system and the privatization of water and…holy shit!" It’s kind of amazing and in some ways it’s shocking to me how much information is out there and still how little we look at it to inform. Once upon a time if we saw whale murders were happening, people were hitting the streets and we had to stop them. And now The Cove wins awards, and no one’s doing anything about the dolphins. And then you see Inside Job, and you’re like, "Why aren’t people hitting the streets over this, what does it take?" You can watch a documentary at three o’clock in the afternoon and get really, really angry, and then just when you’re about to get up to call your congressman, a commercial comes on and you’re like, "Oh my God, I love that laughing baby, it’s so cute!" Wait a minute, no, this was a big thing you just saw, why don’t you get active about it? I don’t put all my eggs in any basket and go, now with social media we can just be social activists; no, we have to really choose to do take action. And it’s a long day, and you want to just play your video game. And believe me, I love playing Red Deck Redemption or Arkham Asylum 2. I get it; it’s not about always being so vigilant all the time. It’s about finding that balance. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://motherjones.com/media/2011/07/rosario-dawson-twitter-interview-congo

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1. And

she speaks Klingon.

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2. Winter's Bone is the Ozarks not "the" Appalachia

MJ writer needs a better fact checker.

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3. I take it the title is meant to be sarcastic.

She talks like a dimwitted Valley girl.

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4. No it's not.....she talks like a lot of people of her age group.

And it doesn't indicate some diminished intellectual capacity, except for the insufferably arrogant.