WBAI-FM Upcoming Program
Arts Express

Tue, Sep 22, 2020 4:00 AM

MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ ALIAS 'SHE GUEVARA' PHONES IN

*Blood Quantum: Director Jeff Barnaby On Native Filmmaking                       

*Michelle Rodriguez Talks Stuntwomen, Playing Gritty

** "I felt like through my entire career, I had been over-masculinized - and I did that to myself because I came from poverty."

Michelle Rodriguez discusses the unusual raw characters she tends to play. And that includes going B movie for Walter Hill as Frank Kitchen in The Assignment, Girlfight, and her alias She Guevara in Machete - a tortilla truck worker on the Texas border by day, and rebel by night.

The Latina actress weighs in as well about her new film that she produced and narrates, Stuntwomen. And how those female stunt performers face more than physical challenges, as the men get 'wigged' to pass as women and take away work from them.

** "Native people are already a post-apocalyptic society - so it just made sense to me if we're going to see the downfall of capitalism, it would happen the same way."

Director Jeff Barnaby On Blood Quantum. The First Nation filmmaker of the Mi'kmaq Reservation in Quebec is on the line from Montreal to delve into his latest movie, Blood Quantum. And why horror as his creative weapon of choice could not be more fitting, considering the genocide of Native people across the continent through time; the importance of his title related to the determined white obliteration of the First Nation through the centuries; and what's going down with the pandemic on the reservations politically.

** "This is not Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - it's the Dark Star and bellicose boots on the moon."

Bro On The Global Television Beat: Space Force - Not Dr. Strangelove. Arts Express Paris correspondent Professor Dennis Broe mulls the 'military industrial entertainment complex' on the small screen - in Space Force and other Pentagon manipulated productions.

 

 


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