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 Dania Ramirez
Interview By: Jacques Prudent
It must be amazing when you find out you got an acting job playing a villain on a huge comic book movie franchise, and it has to be a wild and crazy feeling when that franchise is the final installment of the mega popular trilogy X-Men. I don’t even know what you call it when you find out that you will be acting alongside and kicking Halle Berry’s ass in X-Men: The Last Stand. Dania Ramirez got to experience those feelings first hand when she got the job of playing Callisto, a member of Magneto’s (Sir Ian McKellen) brotherhood. If you don’t know Dania Ramirez, you should take the time to get familiar with her because she has had some very decent roles - 2 Spike Lee films, 25th Hour and She Hate Me, among other smaller projects like Fat Albert. X3 is her biggest film to date and she is proud of it. And just so you know the confidence that is stirring inside of this rising star, when approached with the question of being ready for crazy fans and super stardom, Dania responded, “Am I ready? I was born ready!” Callisto is an X-Men character, who definitely isn’t as fully developed as most of the other characters running around this film, but Dania did not tackle the role blindly, she had to do her research and find out exactly who she would be. “Of course I got the comic books they send me to read and I was in the internet trying to find out as much as I could.” Director extraordinaire Brett Ratner also had specific ideas on how he felt the character should be and Dania got to play around with the role. There was actually a time when this film did not have a director attached to it and that had the actors concerned of course, but when Brett Ratner signed on people were relieved and what word comes to peoples minds when they think of Brett and the way he works? “He’s a perfectionist. If there is a strand of hair on the side that wasn’t there on the last three takes he’ll be like Go back, look there’s a hair there. He’s a perfectionist he likes it to look right, to feel right, he wants you as an actor to try it every single possible way you can possibly try it. He likes coverage. He likes to have his options.” So how does one prepare to kick Halle Berry’s ass? The young Latina says that her and Halle definitely practiced for their fight scenes. “That was kind of nerve racking, because you don’t want to hit Halle in the face before her close-up.” Dania says. Halle Berry wasn’t the only super star Dania worked with. “There were so many amazing people.” Says Dania and anyone who sees what actors are involved in this film ... |
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