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browardpalmbeach.com PETITION NEEDS 683,149 SIGNATURES browardpalmbeach.com TO MAKE 2016 FLORIDA BALLOT. BY CHRIS JOSEPH ichael Minardi is on a mission to make recreational marijuana legal in Florida next year. MAsked how he would do that, consid- ts | o N te ts ering that a ballot measure to legalize even medical marijuana didn’t pass in 2014, he says, “We’re going to use sci- ence, and we’re going to use stats.” Minardi is a West Palm Beach attorney who in March won a landmark case that successfully used medical necessity as a defense for pot charges against his client.
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A recreational marijuana for adults. t The “Florida Cannabis Act” proposes legalizing pot and regulating it like alcohol. It would allow anyone 21 or older to purchase Shutterstock and possess up to an ounce of marijuana and, market. “The focus is definitely going to be year — that it may have to give some back to its Florida has no such big financial backer to if licensed, grow up to six plants at home. all about protecting our children,” he says. residents. (Officials, however, like to say that help its campaign. “We don’t have a John “Realistically, it gives adults the choice to Minardi says criminalizing marijuana has the reason for legalizing pot is to make it safer, Morgan or a Sheldon Adelson financing use cannabis for whatever and whenever they only led to an extremely expensive, failed not to make money.) And public opinion may us,” Minardi says. “We’re raising money want,” Minardi tells New Times. “It doesn’t al- “war on drugs” — a distraction from more be shifting: Cities including Hallandale Beach, by selling shirts and spreading the word low for driving while on cannabis; it limits the important problems. “We know that since the Miami Beach, and Key West have announced with our volunteers to sign the petition.” age to 21 — much like the way alcohol is sold 1970s, when cannabis criminalization had they will decriminalize possession of small He says that the petition is on the group’s and regulated. It creates a licenses-regulated become a prime focus for the government, amounts of weed. In the past few months, website for people to download and sign system of distribution to make sure we have the that it has done nothing,” he says. “It has not Broward County commissioners unanimously (signers must be registered to vote in safety of the products and safety for consum- reduced use in all these years. Meanwhile, you agreed to look into developing an ordinance Florida for their signatures to count) and | MUSIC | DISH | FILM | ART | | | NEWS NIGHT+DAY STAGE | PULP | CONTENTS | | music | dish | film | Art | s | music dish film Art ers as a priority, much like they do in Colorado. look at places like Colorado and other states that would require people to pay a civil fine that Regulate Florida is seeing “a great Whenever any kind of product is regulated, it that have passed a law like this, that there has rather than face criminal arrest for possession. return” on the petitions. The group is also makes sure people are getting a safe product.” been a reduction in suicides, a reduction in Still, getting to the ballot is no easy task. launching a video campaign via Facebook. This summer, the Florida Division traffic fatalities, and a reduction in opiate use.” United for Care, which is funded largely by “We’ve got a lot of things in the of Elections gave Minardi’s team the Colo rado taxes marijuana at a rate of 28 Tampa attorney John Morgan, spent $4 mil- works to get this thing done,” he says. go-ahead to begin collecting 683,149 percent and has brought in so much revenue lion to execute its last petition drive (and is verified voter signatures, which would be — $44 million in the first five months of this trying again for the 2016 ballot). Regulate [email protected] needed for the proposed amendment to be placed on the November 2016 ballot. Past attempts to legalize marijuana at the state level have failed. In November last ▼ LAWSUITS The lawsuit, filed by former dancer Adonay However, the clock is ticking. year, United for Care’s popular initiative to Encarnacion, alleged that by treating dancers as “Although the lawsuit went into settlement in have medical marijuana legalized fell short “independent contractors” and not as full-time February, claim forms were just mailed out of passing by just two percentage points. In STRIPPERS, 2014, Sen. Dwight Bullard of Miami filed a employees, the clubs were illegally cheating around Thursday, June 23, 2015,” Encarnacion women out of full pay and benefits. Before those tells New Times. “I am still fighting to inform
NEW TIMES BROWARD-PALM BEACH BROWARD-PALM TIMES NEW bill that would have allowed Floridians who COLLECT YOUR MONEY New Times Broward-palm B each New Times Broward-palm are 21 or older to possess up to 2.5 ounces of LOOKING FOR 4,700 DANCERS WHO issues could be wres- 4,700 women of their rights to claim and des- pot and allowed folks to cultivate up to six CAN CLAIM A PIECE OF $6 MILLION. tled over in a court- perately searching to inform them before the marijuana plants. Bullard’s bill died before BY KYLE SWENSON “I AM room, the lawsuit was deadline on October 19, 2015. It is a continuous it could get anywhere in the legislature. his past June, organized labor notched DESPERATELY settled. The $6 million work in progress to reach justice.” Minardi is aware of this and knows that an unlikely victory in the last place you’d is meant to restore a Former dancers can find more information 23, 2015 23, SEARCHING TO
XX, 2012 XX, opposition groups will attack Regulate expect: the strip club. INFORM THEM portion of what the at scarlettscabaretlawsuit.com. Eligible indi- Florida. But he says he plans to use stats TA class-action lawsuit organized by savvy ex- dancers should have viduals are “exotic dancers who performed at BEFORE THE ONTH that show crime rates and pot usage among dancers took on Scarlett’s, the popular gentle- earned had they been Scarlett’s of Hallandale and/or Scarlett’s of eptember teens in Colorado have decreased since DEADLINE ON men’s club with locations in Hallandale Beach; OCTOBER 19.” classified as full-time Ybor Strip between December 4, 2009, and
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XX–M Ybor City, Florida; and Toledo, Ohio. The clubs’ employees. February 2, 2015, and exotic dancers who per- there. He says a legal, well-regulated pot owners agreed to settle the case in June for $6 Per the settlement, eligible women will be formed at Scarlett’s of Toledo between De- industry is preferable to the current black ONTH million. The challenge now is to find the able to “receive cash payments over a 24-month cember 4, 2011, and February 2, 2015,” M
eptember 4,700 former dancers who are eligible for pay- period, depending on the amount of time during according to the fine print. S READ MORE NEWS DAILY AT outs as part of the suit. To receive settlement which they performed at one or more of the money, they must meet an upcoming deadline. Scarlett’s Nightclubs.” [email protected] 44 BROWARDPALMBEACH.COM. browardpalmbeach.com | Contents |
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n 1985, Lupe Ontiveros played Rosalita, a clueless housekeeper who’s the butt of jokes made by 13-year-old Corey Feldman in The Goonies. In 1997, she played another housekeeper, who gets a door slammed in her face by Jack Nicholson in As Good as It tage | a rt | Film D ish m usi C IGets. In her later years, she scored roles as the mother-in-law (Des- perate Housewives), the abuela (Maya & Miguel), and even as the killer of J-Lo’s Selena. Before her death in 2012, Ontiveros estimated that she had played a maid more than 150 times — though in real life, the actor was the daughter of successful Mexican-American restau- rateurs and had graduated from college in Texas. One night over drinks with actor Ana Villafañe — who played her granddaughter in the TV show Los Americans — Ontiveros said, “I played the maid so you didn’t have to.” Now, the 26-year-old Villafañe, who was raised middle class in Miami, is reaping the benefits of her TV grandmoth- er’s sacrifice as she heads off to conquer Broadway. For decades, roles for Hispanic women have been limited to exag- gerated stereotypes: the sexy mamacita, the diligent maid, or the sad girl chola. Yet the real lives of women are far more complex than Hollywood depictions have often allowed. Today, though, a small but growing wave NEW TIMES BROWARD-PALM BEACH of 20-something actors is not settling for clichés. Four Miami millenni- New Times Broward-palm B each als — Villafañe, Aimee Carrero, Chrissie Fit, and Alexa PenaVega — are helping to change La-La Land by bringing authentic portrayals of His- panic women to screen and stage. Carrero is voicing the first “Latina” Disney princess, Elena of Avalor. Villafañe will portray Gloria Estefan in the Broadway show about the singer’s life,On Your Feet. PenaVega is acting in films such as Spare Parts that depict Latino struggles, and Fit is spotlighting old stereotypes with a sense of humor inPitch Perfect 2 — and penning her own scripts. But there’s a long road to redemption for Hollywood. A recent University of Southern California study found that Latinos get less than 5 percent of film roles and that Latinas picked up more than their fair share of nude scenes. Forbes magazine’s list of top- grossing Hollywood actresses remains, year after year, almost en- tirely white, though in 2015, the list went international and included Chinese actress Bingbing Fan. (Still, gender may be more of a disadvantage than race. Forbes notes sadly that the top ten S M highest-paid actresses earned only a fraction of what male actors eptember ONTH made: combined, the women between 2013 and ’14 took home
$226 million, compared to the guys’ $419 mil). XX–M
Yet, there is hope. Sofia Vergara, the Colombian-born star of the hit 17-S show Modern Family, was twice named Forbes’ highest-paid female eptember actor on TV. She earns a reported salary of $325,000 per episode, but ONTH clever licensing and endorsement deals — from Diet Pepsi, CoverGirl, and Head & Shoulders — are what helped her rake in $37 million XX, 2008
overall last year. Being bilingual helps double her reach: Her ads for 23, 2015 Burger King, Comcast, and State Farm are all in Spanish. >> p8 Photo by Stian Roenning Stian by Photo 77 Leading Latinas from p7 where she became imprisoned in an amulet after protecting her little sister from an evil Hollywood bean counters would be wise sorceress. But in announcing the show, Dis- to take note of the phenomenon. As the demo- ney explained that it would “tell wonderful graphics of America change, so will those box- stories influenced by culture and traditions office totals. Statistics gathered by the Motion that are familiar to the worldwide population Picture Association of America state that His- of Hispanic and Latino families.” Elena will panics comprised 17 percent of the ticket-buy- first be introduced into the plot line of Disney ing public last year — on par with their ethnic Junior’s hit show Sofia the First, and then her browardpalmbeach.com
browardpalmbeach.com makeup in the total population. That number own show will spin off from there in 2016. is bound to only grow; this year, the U.S. Cen- Ironically, she almost didn’t even read sus Bureau announced that Hispanics already for Elena. She was vacationing with her outnumber non-Hispanic whites in California. family when her agent called about a voice- Carrero, Villafañe, Fit, and PenaVega are over audition, and since she was trying to experiencing a changing Hollywood first- disconnect from work, her first instinct was to pass. Her agent was persistent about ts | o N te ts hand. Having grown up in Miami — which has a 65 percent Hispanic population — these her taking the audition, though. “I think women are well-equipped to move fluidly they might have known more than I did, or between white America and Latino cultures. maybe Disney told them it was a big deal The sense of belonging they’ve carried but to keep things a secret,” she remem- their whole lives is helping to alter the old bers with a laugh. So she took the initial notion that Latinas should be spotlighted audition, didn’t hear anything for another in the industry as simply “the other.” month, and then went in to do various gru- Next time one of these four plays a eling, hourlong auditions, all the while not
ews | pulp c y | N ews Rosalita, she’ll be the leading lady, not knowing what she was even trying out for. the one taking orders from a teenager. Recalling the moment she was told she landed the role, Carrero closes her eyes and AIMEE CARRERO, smiles brightly, saying, “Everything in this THE DISNEY PRINCESS business takes so long to happen, and so Wearing a colorful dress, and with her hair many things fall through, so when some- thing actually happens, it’s like lightning in ge | Night+ dA neatly flowing down her shoulders, young
A actor Aimee Carrero is the definition of a bottle, and it’s a small miracle.” It wasn’t t casual sophistication. Walking around until an official news release started circu- the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, hold- lating that it felt real for her. “When I was ing a cup of coffee in one hand and letting growing up, there was no Disney princess her cross-body bag slouch down her right I could really look up to, but Elena will be side, the 27-year-old blends in with the someone for the coming generations.” crowd. Save for the stylish round Christian Although haters were quick to criticize Dis- Dior “So Real” sunglasses, it’d be hard to ney for doing too little too late for young girls of pick her from a lineup as a “celebrity.” color, Carrero is optimistic: “I hope that more Carrero, who was born in the Dominican Re- so than looking for the holes in the presentation public but raised in Miami, has been living and Photo by Stian Roenning — like the character’s animated appearance — working in Los Angeles since she was 20 years Emily, a high-school student in Alvin and the But when Carrero was nearing 25, she people will see what is there and what Disney is old. Now, seven years later, she’s embarking Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009). She went switched representation and began audi- trying to do… After doing a few episodes, what on possibly one of the biggest chapters of her on to make cameos such as a young rape victim tioning for older roles. She noticed a stark I can say is that they do the best job they can to | music | dish | film | Art | s | music dish film Art | MUSIC | DISH | FILM | ART | | | NEWS NIGHT+DAY STAGE | PULP | CONTENTS | career: voicing the first Latina Disney princess. in The Mentalist, Miley Stewart’s brother’s girl- difference: “The first thing that struck me incorporate different types of Latin cultures But that feat did not come without tribulations. friend in Hannah Montana, and the assertive was the shift in sexuality in the material into the series and the individual episodes. I While she was still an infant, Carrero’s best friend to Lizzie Sutton on Lincoln Heights. I was getting — it was everywhere! And don’t think that one Latina princess is enough, Puerto Rican civil engineer father and Domini- In 2011, she landed a recurring role on a Car- not all of it was exploitative, but it was but it’s a start. It’s progress; it’s not perfect.” can teacher mother moved to Miami to give toon Network series, Level Up, and three years there, and it was very present: You are the She tipped her hat to the actresses who their children better lives and to be closer to later was cast as a series regular in the ABC woman; therefore, you are the sex object.” helped her get this far: “On the one hand, I family. The young Carrero sang, danced, and Family comedy Young & Hungry alongside After the sex shock came the stereo- feel very lucky to be a part of this business acted in her middle-school and high-school Emily Osment. Carrero says she always consid- type shock. “I started getting not a lot but now, because we stand on the shoulders of theater programs. Growing up in the suburb of ered herself a dramatic actor — until she read enough of the stereotypical Latin charac- Rita Moreno, Chita Rivera, and even Jennifer Kendall, Carrero never felt out of place; in fact, for a role in the original NBC seriesHeroes. ter — and not in a good way. Not in a way Lopez, who, in my memory, was playing the she always felt as entitled as anyone. “That’s “I went in for an audition to play a sorority that makes some sort of statement or is leading lady in romantic comedies when no one of the many things growing up in Miami af- girl who was getting hazed,” she remembers, done in a satirical or farcical way. It was just other Latin women were. These actors are forded me,” she says as she fingers a ruby charm “so I was supposed to be really scared and like, ‘You’re Lupe, and you’re the house- the real trailblazers: They fought the fight, hanging from her necklace. “I never grew up crying in this freezer full of meat. The cast- keeper.’ I turned down a lot of them, and they played the maids so that I don’t have to, feeling like a second-class citizen; I never grew ing director was just laughing her ass off at not because I’m not proud of my heritage; and I hope that the generation after me will NEW TIMES BROWARD-PALM BEACH BROWARD-PALM TIMES NEW New Times Broward-palm B each New Times Broward-palm up feeling I was different than anybody else. my audition — she loved it. So they brought I just think we’re beyond those roles.” have an easier time of it than I’m having.” So when I go out for the leading-lady role, I me in for the director and producer, and I But when offered the chance to play The humble Carrero says she wouldn’t don’t go in with a chip on my shoulder. I go in killed it. They were laughing hysterically.” strong, more authentic Latina women, Car- necessarily turn down a housekeeper role, thinking, ‘I can do this; I can do anything.’ ” Carrero called her agent to let her know rero has gladly accepted. In the second but “I’m more aware with my roles than I After attending Archbishop Coleman F. it was practically in the bag. Afterward, season of FX’s The Americans, she played have been in the past because I don’t want
23, 2015 23, Carroll High and graduating early from Flor- though, she was told the executives loved Lucia, a Sandinista leader undercover in the to contribute to any regression… It’s not
XX, 2012 XX, ida International University with a degree in her — “but it’s not a comedy, so they went United States, for four episodes. Currently, that I’m opposed to playing a maid or a international relations, she got an agent who with someone else.” Carrero laughs, “So that the Dominican actor plays Sofia Rodriguez, low-skilled laborer because I’m Latin; I’m
ONTH specialized in casting for children’s shows was my first clue that I could be funny.” the levelheaded best friend to Osment’s ec- just opposed to it being the only option.” eptember and made the move from East to West Coast. Carrero was initially sent to audition for centric Gabi Diamond on Young & Hungry. Of course, Carrero hopes that more
17-S “I was very naive then — I had only done two younger roles, so at first she was unaware While the sitcom is on hiatus, Carrero Latinas, herself included, will star as lead- XX–M commercials and three student films — so how women — especially ethnic women — spends her days at the Disney animation ing ladies. “I hope that in my lifetime, I didn’t really have a lot of experience.” are treated in the film industry. One thing studio doing some pretty significant voice- we see this shift and I won’t have to talk ONTH
M Her greenness worked to her advantage, Disney and Nickelodeon do well, she says, is a over work for her biggest role yet: Elena of about this anymore,” she says gracefully. eptember
S since for her first L.A. audition, she was trying type of casting referred to as “blind casting,” Avalor, who has been described as Disney’s “It’ll just happen — and I won’t have to out for a wide-eyed character. She was fortu- “[where] race and ethnicity is not anything “first-ever Latina princess.” Technically, the discuss what it’s like to be a Latin woman that is commented on [during the audition].” dark-haired character is from a fictional land, in Hollywood.” CAROLINA DEL BUSTO 88 nate enough to land her first real acting job as >> p10 browardpalmbeach.com )YV^HYKPU `V\YWVJRL[ | CONTENTS | PULP NEWS | NIGHT+DAY | STAGE | ART | FILM DISH MUSIC
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browardpalmbeach.com ing hoop earrings, wifebeaters, lip liner, and curly hair. “We don’t always walk around like that,” she says with a laugh. “I don’t fit that E-LIQUID stereotype anyway… and I don’t go around waving a flag, ‘Latina Mami, 143.’ ” CLEARANCE The Atlanta-born Cuban-Salvadoran
ts | o N te ts is petite with soft features and big brown SELECT BRANDS - LIMITED TIME ONLY eyes. She’s no chola. She looks like, and is, WHILE SUPPLIES LAST a Cuban girl raised comfortably in Miami. If anything, she’s a reflection of a youth- ful Gloria Estefan — the singer whom 3304 NE 33RD ST. she’ll be playing on Broadway this fall in the biographical show On Your Feet! Her FT. LAUDERDALE, FL 33308 own self-description, though? “I’m kind (754) 206-3968 of like a dork who loves Harry Potter.” ews | pulp c y | N ews When her family moved to the Magic City, Villafañe was 4 and didn’t speak any English. She says she learned “the worst” English in her elementary school in the suburb of Westchester, where the Miami accent is strong. Only when she went west
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t University did she become aware of it. There, it neutralized a bit, so when she returned home for the holidays, she remembers, “My friends were like, ‘Who are you?’ ” As a kid, Villafañe started doing musical theater at the Actors’ Playhouse in Coral Gables. She wanted to be a veterinarian and a painter, not a singer or actor. But at the all-girl Catholic high school Lourdes Academy, her love for the stage “kind of spiraled out of control.” She cast her friends and herself in the best roles at the Christmas musicals she herself penned. It was at one of those performances that one | music | dish | film | Art | s | music dish film Art | MUSIC | DISH | FILM | ART | | | NEWS NIGHT+DAY STAGE | PULP | CONTENTS | of her current managers spotted her. She signed with his agency her senior year. Modeling and acting in commercials in Miami wasn’t enough for Villafañe. At 19, she moved to Los Angeles, not knowing a Photo by Jim Bridges soul there. She spent her time going to class, stereotypical.” She turned down a lot of work says. Of Carmen Suarez, whom she plays castings, and parties. It ended up taking her and completed her last semester of school. She on the Hulu show South Beach star- six years to finish college. “It took a lot of was worried about losing momentum, “but ring Andy Garcia, she says, “She’s the adjusting; there was a huge cultural differ- nothing was coming that felt right for me.” ultimate Miami girl who got a record ence,” she remembers, describing changing Recently, though, a breakthrough: Vil- deal and got famous. She’s a club rat. Searching for clothes in her car between auditions on lafañe scored a role in the film version of That was fun for me; you get to flex that Interstate 405. At one point, she lived off the animated series Max Steel (out January muscle that you don’t get to in real life.” places where residuals from a Coke commercial for a year. 2016). The material was originally written for Sexy Latina characters aren’t for her, Of the typical Latina bit roles, she laughs. the character of Sidney Gardner, the blond though. “The good thing is, I don’t have “At first I did play them,” she admits. “I girlfriend of the main character. The writer, boobs. I’m not going to be cast as the So- NEW TIMES BROWARD-PALM BEACH BROWARD-PALM TIMES NEW New Times Broward-palm B each New Times Broward-palm played the victim of gang crime on TV Christopher Yost (who also wrote Thor: fia Vergara hourglass vixen. That’s good like six times! My grandparents and par- The Dark World), got to know Villafañe and for me, because I’ll never be in that situa- ents and friends used to joke around that rewrote the script to suit her, creating the tion. There’s different versions of sexy. But if they had to see me get killed one more character Sophia Martinez. Says Villafañe: you’re either Sofia Vergara and J. Lo or time, they weren’t going to watch it.” “It was interesting to hear the producers and Michelle Rodriguez, and that’s sad.”
23, 2015 23, Then she booked her first show, Los Mattel say, ‘That is the new girl next door.’ ” This winter, Villafañe will play Latina
XX, 2012 XX, Americans, alongside other Latino actors Still, sometimes it’s amusing to play up the singer Gloria Estefan on Broadway. “She’s like Esai Morales and Lupe Ontiveros. stereotype. One of the first jobs Villafañe got so iconic and such a pioneer for us, and
ONTH cool She says it was “a great starting point for in Los Angeles was a voice-over for a kids’ Wii she never let go of who she is in order to eptember me. I was working with such incred- videogame. On a break toward the end of re- succeed,” says Villafañe, who will leave
17-S people ible people who nurtured me.” Offers cording, she was joking with another talent in Cali for New York this week to begin re- XX–M started rolling in when she snagged her a Miami accent. The woman in charge heard hearsals; the curtain rises November 5. meet? first lead in a Lifetime movie, Hiding. She it, loved it, and had her do the whole thing The actor makes sure to emphasize that ONTH
M took a semester off to shoot in Canada. over in a chonga accent. Villafañe bought “regardless of what kind of role it is, having eptember S Follow us at “But,” she recalls, “I didn’t want to do any- the game for all her friends for Christmas. that Latina face up there and out there is a thing where I was pregnant or being killed by “Sometimes you can inject those nu- good thing. Now it’s just a matter of molding BrowardNTStreet ances into the characters,” Villafañe what kind of roles there should be.”LIZ TRACY 1010 a gang or in a gang or anything that was too browardpalmbeach.com ALEXA PENAVEGA, browardpalmbeach.com THE SPY KID Playing the role of the brave Carmen Cortez, 13-year-old Alexa Vega flew like a bullet through the clouds and ocean, risking life and limb to save her parents from robot-children killing machines in Robert Rodriguez’s Spy Kids. The 2001 sci-fi fantasy told the tale of a family of secret agents in a quest for adven- ture and plain old world-saving. The family | Contents | pulp news | n ight+Days | just happened to be Hispanic. | MUSIC | DISH | FILM | NIGHT+DAYSTAGEART | | | NEWS | PULP | CONTENTS | Now, the very grown-up 27-year-old actor is known as Alexa PenaVega (she and her hus- band combined their names to make one). Her father is Colombian, and her mother, former model Gina Rue, is an Anglo-American. Her husband, Carlos Pena Jr. — who was raised in the South Florida city of Weston and gained fame with boy band Big Time Rush and the Nickelodeon show by the same name — is of Venezuelan-Dominican descent. With the re- cent announcement that the two actors will be competing alongside Tamar Braxton and Chaka Khan on Dancing With the Stars, season 21, the two are likely gearing up to be household names and a musical-acting-dancing power couple who also just happen to be Hispanic. Both, though, embrace their culture and still practice their Spanish. “We genuinely love our roots,” Photo courtesy of PMK•BNC Alexa says, and both have loyal Latin fan bases. characters, the move was “innovative.” Angeles in the ’60s. “I can look Hispanic, Latino men]” — even if those roles often tage | a rt | Film D ish m usi C Though born in Miami, she spent the first Rodriguez told the Hollywood Reporter last and I can look white, and that has opened emphasize style over substance. She admires four years of her life on a ranch in Ocala with year, “You can’t beat people with the Latin doors for me in acting,” she admits. roles like Eva Mendez’s small part in Girl in the Hispanic side of her extended family. Later, stick. Even Hispanics don’t want that.” Her husband, who has darker features, Progress, a single mom working to make ends she moved back and forth from Puerto Rico to But the relatively fair-skinned and usu- hasn’t had it so easy. It wasn’t until she saw meet. “Those aren’t the big movies, which Los Angeles. That’s when PenaVega got her first ally blond PenaVega has never felt pigeon- the struggle he faced getting roles of sub- is a bummer, because that’s more real.” role in a commercially successful film, playing holed by her heritage. “I look white. When stance that PenaVega really gained perspec- Like Robert Rodriguez, she’s in favor of de- a 5-year-old Helen Hunt in Twister, watching I tell people I’m Colombian, they’re like, tive on being typecast. The swarthy looker emphasizing race or cultural identity. “It was her movie dad get sucked up in a violent tor- ‘Wait? What?’ ... I’ve been really fortunate has had trouble not being stereotyped as such a big deal when Kerry Washington was the nado. She made guest appearances on the small to never have had to experience any bully- a gang member, mechanic, or gardener. leading woman in Scandal. For me, it was like: screen in ER and The Bernie Mac Show. Also a ing when it comes to my culture. I’ve always It’s not just in the casting room where he’s How is that a big deal? There should be plenty singer, she’s provided the soundtrack for pro- been proud to play different characters.” targeted, says PenaVega; it’s everywhere, of leading African-American women on TV.” ductions in which she’s appeared, like the hor- Though not out of necessity, she’s taken even at the airport. “I’ve been really shel- When Longoria was cast on Desperate House- ror-comedy Repo! The Genetic Opera and the plenty of roles playing Latino charac- tered from that,” she admits. “It’s been wives amid a cast of mostly white women, “no TV show Ruby & the Rockits, which starred Da- ters. PenaVega acted in this year’s Spare interesting to look at it through his eyes.” one had to scream and say a Hispanic woman vid Cassidy. She even released several songs for Parts, a George Lopez movie about four PenaVega understands the economic was on the show. It just was what it was.”
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11 11 Leading Latinas from p11 Flo was, in essence, a stereotypical to- ken Latina whose purpose in the film was this business,” she contends. “Even though to point out the ridiculousness of such we love this more than anything, we enjoy token characters and the stereotypes they that it gives us a platform to be a light for represent. “Flo is always commenting on other people and to love on other people. We their white-girl problems,” says Fit with don’t think anyone should ever feel pigeon- a charming giggle. The actress knew the holed or bullied or separated in any way.” character could be slightly controver- As the first married couple to com- sial because of that, so she had countless browardpalmbeach.com browardpalmbeach.com pete on Dancing With the Stars, the talks with the film’s director, Elizabeth PenaVegas are bringing that light and Banks, to make sure things that could love to the ABC competition, which be borderline offensive were held back started September 14. LIZ TRACY or delivered properly, with silent stares, timely eye rolls, and one-line zingers. CHRISSIE FIT, In one scene, while the Bellas are all gath- ered around a campfire talking about their
ts | o N te ts THE COMEDIAN Growing up in Miami, Chrissie Fit’s large Cuban plans for after college, Flo flatly states that family would throw parties — and she was the when her student visa expires, she’ll likely entertainment. “Everyone would be like, be deported. “I’ve never told this to anyone, ‘¡Dale! ¡Baile ¡Canta!’ — and sin pena [without but that joke wasn’t even in the script,” Fit shame]. I would get up and start dancing and says. “It was a different joke about moving singing,” Fit says, laughing at the memory to Miami, actually, but it wasn’t working and at her own use of Spanglish. — it wasn’t hitting.” She then got together Like many other Cubans who left the with the screenwriter and director to go
ews | pulp c y | N ews island for political reasons, Fit’s grandfather over alternatives. After improvising some came to the States with nothing but two suit- bits, the final joke was pieced together. cases, his two kids, and his wife. The petite So far, Hailee Steinfeld, Brittany Snow, actor says incredulously, “He didn’t know Rebel Wilson, Elizabeth Banks, and Anna anybody, didn’t even know the language. How Kendrick have been announced as return- brave was that?” Decades later, Fit was able ing for Pitch Perfect 3, due out in 2017. For to get a solid education at Barbara Goleman contractual reasons, Fit couldn’t say whether ge | Night+ dA High and later go on to study acting at a colle- she’s been approached yet to reprise her role, A t giate level at Florida International University. but hopefully, Flo is able to extend her visa “I’m so grateful for growing up in Miami,” and reappear in the film’s third installment. the 31-year-old actor says while settled into a After Fit wrapped production on Pitch majestic yellow velvet chair during an inter- Perfect 2, she started writing — at first, she view in the Alcove Bakery in Los Angeles, her worked on a web series and movie scripts thick black hair tucked neatly behind her ears with friends. She recently finished the script with bobby pins. “It definitely helped me with for her first solo project, which she submit- my confidence, because I got to play so many ted to her agent for review (she can’t share different types of characters that I probably Photo by Ben Miller story details just yet). If there aren’t enough wouldn’t have growing up somewhere else.” same excuse: “Oh, no, you can’t do that be- critiquing many of the existing stigmas on positive, authentic Latin roles out there, she Prior to pursuing acting profession- cause you’re...,” she pauses, looks down at Latin characters. She played Flo in the 2015 needs to write them herself, she decided. ally, Fit played a Jewish student in her high her hands, chuckles, and says, “brown.” film that takes a comedic approach to a cap- “I just wanted to see more strong, complex school’s production of Fame and Juliet After years of playing roles like “Girl,” pella singing groups, Pitch Perfect 2. In the characters that happen to be Latina,” she | MUSIC | DISH | FILM | ART | | | NEWS NIGHT+DAY STAGE | PULP | CONTENTS |
| music | dish | film | Art | s | music dish film Art in Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, and she “Student #3,” and “Other Chola,” Fit second installment of the soon-to-be trilogy, says. “We fall in love and we get our hearts never felt discriminated against based on managed to break into larger, more no- the Barden Bellas must sharpen their C’s broken just like everyone else… Hopefully, her looks. “I would play a character because table roles like the badass biker chick and polish their D’s to qualify for a chance with writing, I get to make more of an im- I was capable… I was never limited.” CheeChee in Disney’s Teen Beach movies to perform at the world championships. pact than just with acting. The longer you’re Before moving to Los Angeles when and more recently Flo in Pitch Perfect 2. With her comedic timing and perfect in this business, you realize there’s more she was 22, Fit admits, “I never thought “It has gotten better throughout the ability to keep a serious face, Flo was a quick- power on the other side, and you can affect that you couldn’t get a role because of the years I’ve been here,” she reflects, “and witted Bella who arguably stole the show. more and make more change on that side. way you looked. I thought it was based on now you see more diversity on TV, but at While Brittany Snow’s character, Chloe, We need more Latina directors, produc- your talent. If you could play the part, you first, it was a real shock that just because I spends half her time complaining about small ers, writers, studio heads... Those are the were going to get it.” But when she arrived, was Latina, I couldn’t play certain roles.” things as if they’re “the worst thing that’s people making decisions — and a lot of them she was hit with a harsh reality. She says Earlier this year, Fit stepped into a role ever happened,” Flo puts things into perspec- are Caucasian males.” CAROLINA DEL BUSTO she started getting turned down for parts that required her to amplify her ethnic- tive, saying, “When I was 9 years old, my and would hear casting directors use the ity for comic relief while at the same time brother tried to sell me for a chicken, so…” [email protected] NEW TIMES BROWARD-PALM BEACH BROWARD-PALM TIMES NEW New Times Broward-palm B each New Times Broward-palm Stay Plugged In. All our ads, all the time, all on-line. XX, 2012 XX, 23, 2015 23, ONTH
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® NIGHTWEEKOF SEPTEMBER 17 - SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 WWW.BROWARDPALMBEACH.COM/CALENDARDAY mer, enthusiasts of homegrown art have been feeling culturally malnourished. That should THU 9/17 change with the arrival of Art and Culture Center’s seventh All-Media Juried Biennial, ▼ SOCIAL which features 88 works by 79 artists from
the Sunshine State, whittled down from 1,084 Night+Day | s JAZZY CONNECTIONS entries. Jurors Marissa J. Pascucci, of the Boasted as the “most fun network- Boca Museum, and Elizabeth Carejido, an ing you will have this year,” the Greater independent curator, separated the artistic Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce wheat from the chaff, and the resulting survey will host its annual Jazz in the Hall event spotlights first-time ACC exhibitors as well as Thursday with live music, food, door a dependable stable of familiar names. Many prizes, and not one but two open bars. of the works hug the tenuous border between tage | a rt | Film dish m usi C Let’s repeat that: two open bars. the beautiful and disturbing: Don’t miss Jor- This well-established event has been going dan Massengale’s Selfie With Skull, a penetrat- on for 12 years, with food catered by some of ing portrait of a businessman in which half the best local restaurants, including D’Angelo, his face has been bashed in; Justin Gaffey’s Beauty & the Feast, Joe’s Seafood Shack, Ruth’s Attached, in which a nude graphite figure Chris, the Roasted Fig, Hoffman’s Choco- succumbs to the pull of hundreds of invasive lates, and Blue Martini. Worried that there fibers; and Erman’s Ladrones, a paper draw- will be not enough diverse industries? Don’t ing of a haunted excursion tailored perfectly be — chamber business owners come from a for a Halloween-timed run. Eddie Arroyo’s wide range of fields, such as manufacturing, Miami landscapes, Peter Hosfeld’s retro hospitality, photography, banking, health care, abstractions, and many more standouts will and communications, just to name a few. In draw your eyes at the exhibition, which opens other words, attendees of all industries are EYE- from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and runs through bound to find someone to connect with. November 1. The Art and Culture Center is Members of the chamber will pay $15 CATCHING located at 1650 Harrison St. in Hollywood. NEW TIMES BROWARD-PALM BEACH for admission while nonmembers will pay Tickets for the opening reception cost $10. New Times Broward-palm B each $20 for preregistration. Although pre- ART Call 954-921-3274, or visit artandculturecen- All Media Juried registration ends Wednesday, September ter.org. See preview, page 18. JOHN THOMASON Biennial, 16, at noon, walk-ins are still welcome, Friday with $5 more added to their tickets. ▼ FOOD The networking takes place from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Greater Fort Lauderdale SEIZE THE SEASON Chamber of Commerce, 512 NE Third Broward’s food and arts scene has truly come Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. Call 954-462- into its own in the past five years. What was 2570, email [email protected], or once mostly sports bars and kitschy festival visit ftlchamber.com. NATALYA JONES paintings has given way to new and innovative creations from a younger, more creative popu- ▼ ART lous. Art walks have exploded. Restaurant offerings have expanded. And we’re seeing GET CULTURED Selfie With Skull by Jordan Massengale more and more events tying together culinary Need some culture in your life? Margaret conflict analysis and resolution. Before attend- The event takes place on Thursday at 6 and visual arts. Hardy Park Bistro’s Summer
Mitchell Armand, PhD, is scheduled to dis- ing Nova, however, she graduated from the p.m. Admission is free. RSVP at NSUArt- Nights X HPB is the latest series to take root. S M cuss a lecture regarding cultural equity at the University of Texas Pan American. Currently, Museum.org, or call 954-262-0204. The In the third and final event of the series, eptember ONTH Nova Southeastern University Art Museum. she is a licensed mental health counselor as lecture is at Horvitz Auditorium at the NSU chef Philip Darmon and his team are saying
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