Michelle Rodriguez: The other Chronically Killed Actor

Michelle Rodriguez: Theother Chronically Killed Actor

While digging through Mr. Bean's stuff, I came across some funny things about the Character Actress Michelle Rodriguez. I love the Cracked.com story about MR and her less than varied roles throughout her career. She pretty much plays the same set of roles in all of her movies. From this post I came away with a few facts;

1 She doesn't smile that much.

2 She loves playing a cop

3 Always plays a tomboy. And, I like that. To be fair, most of her characters would be Tomboys anyways because of the male-dominated jobs they're in. (Marine, Cop, or Car Theft)

4 Tends to die in her movies (In Resident Evil, she dies over and over again.)

Now, it seems her character in the Fast & Furious series is alive and well after being killed fourth movie. And, she was brought back for the RE series only to be killed again...again.

Someone actually asked her why her characters keep dying in movies, and she had this amusing answer to say. From io9.com, ((Because I don't take my clothes off, and I'm nobody's girlfriend. The writers are new to the whole tough girl thing, and they don't know what to do with [me]. We've got the dude who's strong, so what do we do with the chick who's strong? We kill her. Eventually they'll get used to it, and maybe Saltwill change a thing or two. ))

Wow, that's a loaded answer, ME. Actually, you're completely wrong about the writers not knowing how to write tough girls. First, all those videogames you play have a lot of strong female characters in them. Starting from the old Nintendo days. What about the strong characters in the MGS or ME series? The “Writers are new to the tough girl thing” doesn't hold water. (Did I mention Ripley from the Alien franchise?) Things started to shift after the Ripley thing. Lost, a show you were killed off on, had a few strong female characters too.

Now, technically, she hasn't fully taken off her clothes in her movies as far as Mr. Skin tells me. So, she at least is correct there, but she still shows a lot of skin, thanks to her many tank-tops.  Bu, she might have a point there.

And, the whole “Nobody's girlfriend” statement seems a bit out of place too. In F&F, Lettyis the girlfriend of Vin Diesel's character. (Put your name on it)

I like that she has found a niche and stayed in it, but don't be ashamed of it and blame it on others.

Someone else has a completely different take on her than me. Make sure to read her blog post.

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