“She told me that if I dyed my hair blond and got a nose job, ‘I can get you more jobs. Because you’re not black,'” the Latina actress shared.
“It was just a magical summer,” Perez reminisced of playing opposite Harrelson and Wesley Snipes. “And when you’re scrolling on your TV to see what you want to watch, and March Madness comes up, and then there’s ‘White Men Can’t Jump,’ you can’t help but watch.”
That opportunity led to Peter Weir’s film “Fearless,” which again, the studio wanted a white woman to play.©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection Despite pressure from the studio, Weir and Jeff Bridges, who played Max Klein in the 1993 drama, held their ground.And despite being a member of the Academy, the actress revealed in 2021 that she has“Not even to sit in the audience, not to present, nothing — and I’m a member,” she told Variety. “I love the Academy Awards. I cheer on my peers, but it hurts. It’s like when your home team doesn’t ask you to come back into the stadium after you got up to bat and hit the home run.
“I’m not supposed to talk about it,” she told Variety. “Let’s just say that what I thought I was there for was supposed to be one kind of a thing, which excited me, and then when I got there, that’s not what it was.”While sitting on the panel, an anonymous executive claimed to Variety that Perez couldn’t read a teleprompter, causing Latino leaders to demand an apology.
Additionally, ABC executive Barbara Fedida, who oversaw the show during Perez’s tenure, was fired in 2020 for making racially insensitive comments about “Good Moning America” anchor Robin Roberts, who is a black woman., who can currently be seen on “Your Honor,” will be honored next month at Variety’s Power of Women event alongside Natasha Lyonne, Kelly Ripa, Michaela Jae Rodriguez and author Judy Blume.
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