Time Article Excerpts


	Time Article Excerpts
	August 2003
		Courtesy of MRU
Michelle Rodriguez, who turns 25 on July 12, is a valued member of the team in S.W.A.T. (a fiction, since there are as yet no real-life SWAT women in Los Angeles, where the film is set). "I like the idea of being powerful," she says of her role. "Plus I get to play with guns. But I don't have many action scenes. I let the guys shoot and kill everybody." Michelle Rodriguez's first film, Girlfight, won two prizes at the 2000 Sundance fest. The indie film helped get her the female lead (supporting Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and a lot of souped-up cars) in The Fast and the Furious. This summer she has the female lead (supporting Samuel L. Jackson and Colin Farrell) in S.W.A.T. Still, Rodriguez is not satisfied. "I'm tired of the tough-guy thing," she says. She's not crazy about the Lara tough gals either. "Female leads can be too harsh. There's nothing psychologically exciting in them." So she is stoking her own projects and hopes to play Lucrezia Borgia and photographer-firebrand Tina Modotti � "respected women who were powerful."

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