Aliens: Jenette Goldstein plays Vasquez: Becoming a Chicano

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Aliens: Jenette Goldstein plays Vasquez

 

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Physical preparation, however, presented only part of the challenge. 

 

Goldstein also had to capture Vazquez's anger, dialect and martial mentality. 

 

She grew up in Southern California, and so had some awareness of the Chicano subculture. 

 

Without a dialect coach of time or money to fly back to Los Angeles, she had to do it from memory. 

 

She had her parents send her some source material from libraries in Los Angeles - interviews with gang members, that sort of thing, because all there was in London were travel books to Mexico.

1. Physical preparation, however, presented only part of the challenge. Goldstein also had to capture Vasquez' s anger, dialect and martial mentality.
   
   Having grown up in Southern California, she notes, Goldstein had some awareness of the Chicano sub-culture. "I had to do it from memory," she explains. "I didn't have a dialect coach, or the time or money to fly back to Los Angeles.
   

   "I had my parents send me some source material from libraries in Los Angeles interviews with gang members, that sort of thing, because there was nothing like that in London. Just travel books to Mexico."
   
   
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