Cinemablend.com reports that Latina comic-writer/feminist/actress/every-nerd’s-dreamgirl Rosario Dawson had major issues with a rape scene in Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse entry, Death Proof. As peculiar as it sounds, it seems Rosario is staunchly anti-rape and doesn’t believe her character would have left another woman behind knowing she’d be the recipient of some non-consensual love-making. Quoth Dawson:

“I talked to Quentin about it several times, because I had a huge problem with leaving her there: ‘I don’t leave that girl behind, I love that girl, we’re friends.’ “Quentin says, ‘No,’ (and) I say, ‘Can I throw her the keys to the car?’ and he says, ‘No, you can’t, that’s not how it’s going to work.’ I was like, ‘Damn!’”

There you have it, folks. She was like, “damn!” Truer words were never spoken. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my many years in show business, or “the biz” as we call it at the Havana Room when we’re poking lit cigars into the foreheads of our Romanian-bought love-servants, if you’re going to tell the director how to direct, you’d better make a pretty convincing argument, e.g. “like…damn!” Okay, Dawson gets a pass because she’s kind of cute in that Boy Next Door sort of way. I mean yeah she’s got cans galore but you ever notice she’s got a Viking’s jaw? I bet she could gnaw her way through a garbage dumpster with that food-chewer. Note to self, don’t ever rape Rosario Dawson in a garbage dumpster. Not only will she not enjoy it, she’ll likely be able to escape.

Tags: Grindhouse, Rosario Dawson, Death Proof, rape

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