She went on to star in the 1992 film White Men Can't Jump and the 1993 drama Fearless, for which she earned an Oscar nomination. Lee cast the Brooklyn-born Puertorriqueña in Do the Right Thing. "The next day he was like, 'I want you to try out for a film.' And I said, 'I'm not an actress.' And he goes, 'Oh, yes, you are.'" "He kept saying, 'tonight is fate.' And I said, 'Oh, you wish.' He just couldn't stop laughing," she recalls. She met filmmaker Spike Lee at a nightclub. She remembers how she was discovered: as a college biochemistry major who danced on TV's Soul Train. She blasted onto the big screen in 1989, dancing like a prizefighter in the opening credits of Do the Right Thing. Rosie Perez is one of the Latina powerhouses shaking things up in Hollywood. But those who do make it also multitask as directors, producers and activists. Fewer than two percent of leading movie roles go to Latino actresses, according to USC's Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.
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