Rosie Perez on beating Trump. Weinstein’s reckoning. Why Latino voters won’t vote socialist. Raise better boys.
Rosie Perez doesn’t play to the crowd — in the ring, on stage, or in politics. In this replay from the archives, the Oscar-nominated actress, boxing obsessive, and lifelong activist sits down with Paul for a no-BS conversation about the Weinstein verdict, the mental game of beating Trump, why so many Latino voters recoil from the word socialist, and the urgent work of raising better boys. It’s raw, funny, historic — and it hits harder now than when it first aired.
Rosie Perez has spent her whole life getting back up. From a brutal childhood to an Oscar nomination, from Do the Right Thing to Birds of…
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→ Four things from today’s episodeRosie’s fight-analyst breakdown of Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder. and why she called it at the weigh-in
The Weinstein verdict as a landmark moment. “Rape is rape, no matter if it occurred today, yesterday, or twenty years ago”
Why she refuses to shame anyone who voted for Trump. and where she puts the fight instead
The hard truth about Latino voters and the word “socialist”. Cubans, Venezuelans, and families who fled dictators
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