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After the official announcement came last month of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For getting the go-ahead, the first teaser poster has made its way online, oozing the neo-noir feel of 2005’s original Sin City. Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller return as co-directors, and the prequel/sequel nature of the film mean that much of the cast of the first film are expected to return, regardless of their fates by the end. Miller has co-written the script with the Oscar-winning William Monahan (The Departed), with production set to get underway this year for a release next year. Mickey Rourke and Rosario Dawson are already set to reprise their roles, and hopefully we can look forward to more casting news soon.
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Rosario Dawson was interviewed with Fox News recently about Voto Latino and this year’s elections – you can watch it below! |
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Last night, Rosario Dawson was in attendance at the 2012 Costume Institute Gala in New York City. I have just added 118 HQ and MQ images from the event into our photo gallery! |
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I have just updated our photo gallery with 293 HQ and MQ images of Rosario Dawson from the most recent events that she attended! |
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Actress and activist Rosario Dawson told The Daily Caller that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney can “use” his heritage to make immigration issues “very personal” in the general election. Addressing the Latino vote, Dawson predicted that Romney will “draw a lot of people in,” but said he faces some challenges because “the Republican Party has really sort of pushed away the Latino vote” in the past. TheDC asked Dawson, the co-founder of Voto Latino, if Romney could garner support from the Latino community, given that his father was born in Mexico. “Having his heritage be something that’s going to be really exciting for a lot of people to talk about and be really important for him to be speaking about what that’s meant to him as an immigrant — part of an immigrant family and story, that’s going to be really important and obviously Obama, who’s done a lot of deportations in his administration, that’s another thing that’s going to be something that people are really going to have to pay attention to,” Dawson told TheDC at a Voto Latino event celebrating “Diversity in the Media.” “But I think The Republican Party as well has really done a lot to kind of really shut down the Latino vote and talking about immigration in such a negative way during the entire campaigning process, not necessarily Mitt Romney himself.” She continued: “I think he’s going to have to do quite a lot to kind of bring people back on to want to vote Republican… not just necessarily for him because I think he’ll draw a lot of people in, but I think the Republican Party has really sort of pushed away the Latino vote and the Latino conversation in such a negative way that I think it’s going to be very difficult for him to kind of get them on board. So that will be something that he can really use to be able to make it very personal and that’s going to be important for him.” Dawson said she will not campaign for President Barack Obama or Romney because her organization is non-partisan. “I get to just be critical of both, which is great,” she said. “I get to represent I think what the real voter is, which is highly critical and not always wanting to be put in the position of voting for the lesser of two evils.” Another issue Dawson is focusing on is voter registration. TheDC asked her if she agreed with state laws that require individuals to present photo identification at the polls. “It’s more complicated than that. You know, right now, even during voter registration we’re being told that we have to have birth certificates for elderly people who don’t even have [one], who have never had one. That really takes them out of the process,” she told TheDC. “Of course we want people to make sure that there’s not voter fraud and all that, but it’s a big fallacy to say we need to change all of these different laws right now and make it so that so many people don’t get to have and exercise their right to vote.” Dawson, of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent, is best known for roles in Men in Black II, Sin City, Eagle Eye and Seven Pounds, opposite Will Smith. |
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Rosario Dawson had an incredibly busy weekend. On Friday, the actress/political activist was in Washington D.C., for the Voto Latino On Series event. Then on Saturday, the “Sin City” star attended the White House Correspondents Dinner. And on Sunday, Dawson hopped on a train from D.C. to New York and spent the entire trip snapping photos of her journey as part of the “See More On A Train Online Contest,” that encourages people to submit their train journeys via photos as part of Amtrak’s 5th Annual National Train Day.” When she landed in New York on Sunday night, Rosario invited The Huffington Post over for a chat at New York’s Penn Station. We spoke to the talented actress about her work with the non-profit organization Voto Latino (which she co-founded in 2005 with Maria Teresa Kumar), why you wont be reading about her slamming any presidential candidates in the news, and why she isn’t endorsing any candidate for president. The Huffington Post: There are more than 9 million young Latinos in the United States, but not all of them are voting. Why do you think that is? The more I talk to young people, the more I see how incredibly just full on activists they are. Just because they’re not necessarily voting, it doesn’t mean they’re not doing stuff. They’re organizing. They’re marching and they’re using social media to get their points across. [But] getting engaged as a voter really makes you powerful. If you’re at occupy movements or you’re walking in protests, then you need to march to the polls — you need to occupy the voting booth and that’s really going to make sure that you’re voice and your issues are heard. That’s very interesting. Often times the media just says: “Young people don’t show up to vote” and they leave it at that. They’re like, ‘I’m American, that’s who I am. Why would you want to deport me? I didn’t choose to do this, I was a kid and I’ve been here my whole life. I’ve never been to this other country.’ A lot of the time they don’t even speak the language from the country they came from. We’ve made things about numbers and we’ve really dehumanized and objectified Latinos a lot in our conversations about them. Latino issues are American issues. You go to China, Brazil or India, and they understand that their population is their power. We have the largest and fastest growing demographic in this country and it represents over a trillion dollars worth of money. Why would we want to ostracize that and put that away? There’s nothing to be worried about. If we start working together, this country is going to be in really great shape. There are some Hollywood actors who have spoken out against presidential candidates. We never hear you doing that. Is that a conscious decision on your part? A lot of celebs endorse candidates for president. Have you thought about doing that? What is the most important issue for you as a voter? The people and the land are the biggest things I care about. We should be investing in infrastructure — that’s why I’m doing National Train Day. Why do we not have more high speed train rails? Why are we not paying attention to one of the greenest ways to travel? We could be making incredible railways that could be connecting people and communities, and allowing access to people to be able to do that “staycation” that is so popular right now because the economy is rough. We had 30 million people use the train last year and we can up that. I fly a lot but it’s a really different experience when you’re flying and everything is like a tiny little ant. When you’re actually going through these communities on a train, you really see them. You see the differences in them, you see the areas that are more run down or areas that are more like big cities. And you get to see all of the untouched raw land — like on the train ride over here I saw a deer. You get to see the landscape of the country that you live in. And those are the things that help us be able to connect all of our different kinds of immigration stories. |
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Actress and activist Rosario Dawson joins Piers Morgan in studio, detailing the importance of National Train Day |
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Its being reported by joblo.com that Rosario Dawson and Mickey Rourke are both now confirmed to return for “Sin City: A Dame To Kill For”! Director Robert Rodriguez has this to say about the two actors returning: “[Rourke is] all excited to come back, but he’s probably the first one,” Rodriguez said. “I saw Rosario [Dawson] too. I ran into her for something else, and she’s pumped. They’ve always been excited about doing another one, so that will be fun.” |