{"id":165,"date":"2018-01-03T12:31:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T17:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2018-01-03T12:31:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T17:31:53","slug":"fast-and-furious-actress-michelle-rodriguez-cites-add-as-motivation-for-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Fast and Furious Actress Michelle Rodriguez Cites ADD as Motivation for Success"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michelle Rodriguez on set of\u00a0Fast and Furious<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Rockville, Md., Oct. 15 \u2013 Known for her sexy and confident female roles in\u00a0Lost<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Fast and Furious<\/em>, Michelle Rodriguez, a Hispanic actress, now has set her eyes on writing and directing movies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to write and direct, but it\u2019s not easy with ADD. I have a hard time focusing when I\u2019m alone. I\u2019m a scatterbrain, but I\u2019m nervous of taking medication, I don\u2019t really want to depend on anything to control my brain,\u201d Rodriguez said in an interview with\u00a0World Entertainment News Network (WENN).<\/a><\/p>\n

She was born in Texas to Dominican mother Carmen Milady Rodriquez and Puerto Rican father Rafael Rodriquez but moved to the Dominican Republic to be raised by her mother at the age of eight. She was partly raised by her maternal grandmother. However, at the age of 11, she moved to Puerto Rico with her mother.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez has Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), which led her to being expelled from five schools. She dropped out of high school but earned her GED privately. At the age of 17, she moved back to the U.S., where she resided in New Jersey. She attended business school but would leave for short periods of time to pursue acting as a career.<\/p>\n

Her first professional acting job was acting as an angry boxer who wins and earns respect, discipline, and romance in\u00a0Girlfight (2000).\u00a0<\/em>The film won Best Directing Award and Grand Jury Prize in the Sundance Film Festival in 2000, earning Rodriquez fame on every news cover, but she was not fond of the attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t like it,\u201d she said to\u00a0Hollywood.com<\/a>. \u201cIt makes me feel uncomfortable. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s genuine the majority of the time. It doesn\u2019t make me feel that great. I mean, I take a dump just like you do, it\u2019s all the same. I don\u2019t get the point of it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodriguez later starred in movies such as\u00a0SWAT\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Avatar<\/em>, as well as the series\u00a0Lost<\/em>. Recently, she was a main character in the franchise\u00a0Fast and Furious<\/em>. However, she is now at a point where she is fighting for woman\u2019s rights and how women are being portrayed in the\u00a0Fast and Furious\u00a0<\/em>movies. She even threatened to walk away from her role.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope they decide to show some love to the women of the franchise on the next one or I just might have to say goodbye to a loved franchise,\u201d she said in an interview with\u00a0CNN<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s been a good ride and I\u2019m grateful for the opportunity the fans and studio have provided over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodriguez hopes to become a screenwriter and direct her own movie in the future.\u00a0Studies show<\/a>\u00a0many people within the Latino and other communities hide their invisible disability due to negative stigmas, but Rodriguez has been outspoken about her ADD, educating people about her disability. Therefore, she is the perfect candidate for RespectAbility\u2019s\u00a0#RespectTheAbility<\/a>\u00a0campaign, which is highlighting individuals with disabilities who are extremely successful in their chosen career.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez is one of the most prominent Latinas to disclose they are living with a disability. Fully one-in-five Americans have a disability and polls show that most of them want to work. Yet 70 percent of working-age Americans with disabilities are outside of the workforce. There are 4,869,400 Latinos living with a disability in the U.S. Only 37 percent of working-age Latinos with disabilities are employed in the U.S. compared to 73.9 percent of working-age Latinos without disabilities. Our nation\u2019s economy is strongest when it is inclusive of the value that diverse talent brings to the workplace. Celebrities like Rodriguez are making a difference.<\/p>\n

\u00a0To view the main article on RespectAbility’s website click here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michelle Rodriguez on set of\u00a0Fast and Furious Rockville, Md., Oct. 15 \u2013 Known for her sexy and confident female roles in\u00a0Lost\u00a0and\u00a0Fast and Furious, Michelle Rodriguez, a Hispanic actress, now has set her eyes on writing and directing movies. \u201cI want to write and direct, but it\u2019s not easy with ADD. I have a hard time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeinalmaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}