Spike Lee

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[gentle music] From her start in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, which by the way Rosie says came to her by way of a run-in with Spike Lee in a club, to her most recent role in Your Honor opposite Bryan Cranston, and countless roles in between, Rosie Perez is Hollywood gold.

But long before the bright lights and cameras, the storyline of Rosie's life was much different.

The scene was Brooklyn, and a young Rosie Perez was cast in a role she never asked for.

Yeah.

And it's like you tell any of us we can't do anything, we go, "What?"

Well, this makes perfect sense because you met Spike Lee back in the very beginning, back in time, and you hadn't had an acting role, but you got into a little argument with him 'cause you are headstrong-

Yes

Most of them move out to Jersey or whatever.

And it's like, you remember like Spike Lee do the right thing?

Yeah.

Like that era of New Yorkers.

So much trash is talked.

Spike Lee is in this movie as a talking head.

He, of course, was courtside, and he became part of the story between him and Reggie Miller, them going back and forth.

And it's an excellent... and wonderfully smartly edited documentary.

Ralph Lauren, big sponsor.

They did a thing with Agassi, Billie Jean King, Spike Lee, and Carl Anthony Towns of the New York Knicks.

That was cool.

And then we had Fashion Week going in.

[laughs] So, um-

And of course my favorite Spike Lee movie, Malcolm X.

Malcolm X, yeah.

Yeah.

I remember kind of once I...

I remember reading Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing.

He made a book after the movie came out that was like...

Basically, like, the first half of the book is, like, his notes on it, from everything from, like, conceptions, sample dialogue, to, like, his production diary.

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Doug, you may remember her from Robin Thicke's classic Blurred Lines.

I remember that, yeah.

Private equity and good money versus bad money.

That good money versus bad money that came from that... latest Spike Lee movie that came out.

And there's a difference.

One of the things we cite again, again, again, there's that quite frankly, as an individual, you should look, belief system, you should be out there, build, create, protect, and teach.