Michelle Rodriguez: Sorry for that ‘whole supehero thing’
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, March 1, 2015, 3:20 PM
Andy Kropa /Invision/AP Michelle Rodriguez attends Naomi Campbell’s Fashion For Relief during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall at The Theater at Lincoln Focal point on Feb. 14 in New York City. She apologized on Facebook Saturday after saying minorities in Hollywood need to stop ‘stealing’ white superhero roles. Michelle Rodriguez went online to apologize “about that whole superhero thing.”
“I stuck my foot in my mouth once again,” she said in a video posted to Facebook Saturday. “I have tendency to speak without a filter, sorry about that.”
The “Furious 7” star was jokingly questioned if she’d be starring as “The Green Latern” when she went on a tirade about minorities playing superheroes intended to be white.
“That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” she told TMZ in a video posted Saturday. “I think it’s so stupid because of this whole minorities in Hollywood thing. It’s so stupid. Stop stealing all the white people’s superheroes. Make up your own. What’s up with that?”
Later that day she tried to clarify what she really meant.
“I guess it got taken out of context, because a lot of people got offended or whatever,” she said in the video.
“What I really meant was that ultimately at the end of the day, there’s a language,” the “Avatar” actress continued. “And the language that you speak in Hollywood is successful franchise.”
Rodriguez went on to point out how there “are many cultures in Hollywood that are not white that can come up with their own mythology.”
“I’m just saying that instead of trying to turn a girl character into a guy, or instead of trying to turn a white character into a black character or Latin character, I think that people should stop being bone idle and that people should really make an effort in Hollywood to develop their own mythology,” she added.
The 36-year-ancient actress has a point, as Michael B. Jordan became the first African-American Human Torch for this summer’s “Fantastic Four” movie. Additionally, rumors have been swirling for some time now about Idris Elba possibly becoming the first black James Bond and Donald Glover potentially playing the role of Spider-Man.
“I think it’s time for us to write our own mythology,” she reiterated to her fans.
If Rodriguez’s future plans pan out she may just be the writer to exchange the face of Hollywood.
“It’s like a catch-22,” she previously told the New York Day after day News’ Viva about being torn between her like for acting and prose.
“Now I’m getting all this like for the acting that I’ve busted my a– for,” she said. “Now I have all these opportunities and I’m like, ‘Damn, when will I ever get to write? When is my childhood marvel of prose feature films ever going to come to execution?’”
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