ComingSoon.net Interviews Rosario and Talia

For the last five or six years, Rosario Dawson has been an actress{nl}to watch, having stolen many a movie with her beauty and talent, movies{nl}like Rent and Kevin Smith’s Clerks II and Quentin Tarantino’s segment from Grindhouse.{nl}For her new movie Descent, she has taken a new role, that{nl}of producer, teaming with Talia Lugacy, a young New York filmmaker with{nl}lots of ideas and attitude, to tell a hard-edged story about betrayal{nl}and revenge. In the movie, Dawson plays Maya, a smart and pretty{nl}college co-ed who is raped on a date with a football player, and after{nl}dropping out of school and getting into a world of drugs before finding{nl}a way to get revenge and closure for what happened. It’s probably{nl}Dawson’s toughest and edgiest roles to date, allowing her to show a{nl}wide range of emotions as a character who goes through an amazing{nl}transformation.{nl}ComingSoon.net recently sat down with Dawson, writer/director Talia{nl}Lugacy and a bunch of other journalists to grill them on the mindset{nl}that went into making this far-too-real drama.{nl}ComingSoon.net: Where did you two first meet?{nl}Talia Lugacy: In an acting class actually, this{nl}place called “Lee Strasburg.” I was there because I was dying to be a{nl}director and I couldn’t get into film school ’cause I was too young, so{nl}I just went in there to check out what the actors were up to, so I{nl}could gather from that, and she was in class, and I wasn’t talking to{nl}anybody and she just kind of walked up and introduced herself to me and{nl}we’ve sort of been best friends ever since. I still don’t know why you{nl}do that.{nl}Rosario Dawson: She had this great T-shirt that came{nl}down to her knees, this Stanley Kubrick T-shirt, “A Clockwork Orange,”{nl}an image of the actual poster of it, but it looked like a full-size{nl}poster on her body while she was walking around. It was interesting{nl}because people in my neighborhood do a lot of advertising for free.{nl}(laughter) In this particular instance, I was like “Kubrick? Nice! How{nl}old are you?” I liked her immediately. She was just sitting there{nl}grumbling and I put my hand out and said “Hi!” and she looked at it for{nl}a while, like “Really?” I’m like, “Wow, I like you already! How does{nl}that work?”{nl}Lugacy: I didn’t know what to do in that moment.( to continue click read more)