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The 27-year-old plays a promising college student who becomes determined to seek revenge after a dreadful act of violence is committed on her.”This film is about sexual violence and the tunnel vision that comes with abuse and revenge,” the New York Daily News quoted her, as saying.”I’ve had a lot of experience with this subject. My mom used to work with abused women in a woman’s shelter in San Francisco – we lived there for a year, and it [occurred] predominantly in my neighborhood, so I’ve seen a lot,” she added.The film marks the debut of Dawson’s friend Talia Lugacy as a co-writer/ director/producer.”Our first film was slated to be a comedy,” Dawson said.”Descent” was premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and is being screened at the Village East Cinema August 10th.[ SOURCE ]{nl}{nl}

Violence against women is a subject that Hollywood doesn’t like to deal with head-on. But when actress Rosario Dawson formed her own production company, Trybe, that’s the theme she chose for her first film.“My mom used to work in abuse centers when I was really young,” Dawson told TODAY’s Ann Curry, Natalie Morales and Maria Menounos during a chat Monday on the Plaza at Rockefeller Center. “So, it’s just been a part of my life, and especially the neighborhoods that I grew up in. I just felt it’s a subject matter that needed to be dealt with seriously.”In “Descent,” Dawson plays Maya, a college student who has everything going for her. She takes up with Jared, a young man who is just as talented and attractive as she.Story continues below ↓advertisementBut one night, Jared rapes her after she declines his sexual demands.If Hollywood deals with the subject at all, she said, the approach is usually oblique.“Most of the time, they’re dealt with through a court drama. Society talking about, ‘Well, what was she wearing?’” she said.But not “Descent.”’Very intense’“This is a story about a woman who gets sexually violated and doesn’t tell anyone,” she said. “So you’re just with her and her experience of it and see how she deals with it. I think it’s much more quiet and genuine. And it gets very heavy because it continues forward. It develops into a plot of revenge against her attacker.”The revenge takes place in her bedroom after she lures him to his fate, which is no less vicious than the act he perpetrated on her.“And there are two rapes in the film. It’s very intense. It’s not to be taken on lightly,” she said.Dawson was born to a construction-worker father of Native-American and Irish ancestry and a professional-singer mother of Puerto Rican, African and Cuban descent. She grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and for much of her childhood, the family squatted in an abandoned building.Born May 9, 1979, she was discovered as a teenager while sitting on a stoop in New York City. Dawson made her first movie, “Kids,” in 1995 when she was just 16. She attended Lee Strasberg’s acting school and has gone on to play major roles in “He Got Game,” “Josie and the Pussycats,” “Men in Black II,” “Alexander” and “Sin City,” among many others.She formed Trybe with her friend of a dozen years, Talia Lugacy, her co-writer on “Descent” and the film’s director.Dawson is also the creator of the comic-book series “Occult Crime Taskforce,” whose heroine polices magical crime in New York City.“Descent” premiered to rave reviews at the Tribeca Film Festival. It will be released in theaters in Los Angeles and New York on Friday.[ SOURCE ] click on the source to view video footage from the interview{nl}{nl}

{nl}In Descent, acclaimed actress Rosario Dawson plays the most controversial character of her career: a promising college student who becomes bent on seeking revenge after a shocking act of violence is committed on her.The feature debut of co-writer/ director/producer Talia Lugacy, Descent is a film that unnervingly tackles some of the country’s most taboo subjects.Maya’s (Dawson) life seems blessed- the boys can’t resist her charm and beauty and she has a promising academic future

“Disturbia” director D.J. Caruso revealed exclusively to MTV News that Michelle Monaghan and Rosario Dawson will join the “Indiana Jones IV” star in Caruso’s “Eagle Eye,” a thriller from the mind of Steven Spielberg about a young man (LaBeouf) and a single mother (Monaghan) framed as terrorists and forced to join a group with plans to kill a political figure.”I met with Rosario the other day, so we’re adding her and [Michelle],” Caruso enthused. “We’re putting together a really cool cast, so I’m excited about that.”Representatives for Monaghan confirmed that the 31-year-old “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” star will play the female lead, a single mother with a 4-year-old who goes on the run with LaBeouf. Of Dawson, Caruso would only say that “she is going to play a character named Zoey.”Regardless of the roles, Dawson and Monaghan have plenty to look forward to, LaBeouf said.”D.J. Caruso is still the greatest director I’ve ever worked with. I’ve had the most fun with him,” the 21-year-old gushed to MTV News at the red-carpet premiere of “Transformers” in late June . “We’re going to try to make a good movie with the little family that we’ve built.”Caruso’s Hollywood stock has skyrocketed since “Disturbia,” but “Eagle Eye” was a case of right place, right time