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Rosie Perez

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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Do the Right Thing Was Your First Movie

When she was in college, a talent scout from Soul Train saw her dancing and asked if she'd like to go on the show. The night before she was going to leave California, move back to New York, they asked some of the Soul Train dances if they would go to this party that a filmmaker was having. When I walked in there, they were having a butt contest to see which woman had the biggest butt. So I jumped up on the stage on a speed bump. But I was trying to humiliate the whole evening telling the women don't do that. And then the guy came over with bodyguards and told me to get down. And I got scared. And so I

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