In the latest installment of ARRIVALS, spotlighting breakthrough performers, Movieline chats with Dania Ramirez, who cycles to stardom opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Shannon in this week's Premium Rush.
As Vanessa, the tough bicycling beauty of David Koepp's adrenaline-fueled Premium Rush, Dominican-born Dania Ramirez (X-Men: The Last Stand, Entourage, Heroes) bursts onto the screen with such vitality that it's no wonder director Spike Lee gave Ramirez her big break, years ago, after recognizing her as a former extra on one of his shoots.
Ramirez, a onetime college volleyball star, credits her career to Lee (she appeared in his Subway Stories, The 25th Hour, and She Hate Me before carving out a career in TV and film; she's got Marc Cherry's Devious Maids series lined up for 2013). She spoke further with Movieline about her career beginnings, the artistic impulse behind her short spoof "Ass and Titties," her real life job history (McDonalds to Rollergirl!) and her bicycling horror stories from the set of Premium Rush, in which fellow NYC bike messenger Joseph Gordon-Levitt woos her while they both tangle with a crooked cop (Michael Shannon).
In a lot of movies it?s a little disappointing to see cutaways in action scenes that make it obvious that the actors are not doing their own stunts, but in Premium Rush it?s at least clear that you guys knew your way around a bicycle.
The good thing about this movie is that a lot of the movie takes place on the bikes, so we had to get good at riding, and to a certain extent doing stunts. [Laughs] But don?t get me wrong, this is not to take credit away from the amazing, talented stunt people that were on set helping us…
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