Five Favorite Films with Genesis Rodriguez

In the odd chance that you happened to be watching Mexican telenovelas sometime in the last five or six years, you may have locked eyes upon Genesis Rodriguez, a young actress who was a regular cast member on several shows before moving to Los Angeles for an arc on Entourage. You're also likely to enjoy her performance as Will Ferrell's absurdly radiant paramour in this week's Casa de mi Padre, a movie that riffs heavily on the telenovelas of Rodriguez's past. The actress' training in those deadly serious, unintentionally cheesy melodramas proved a perfect fit for the film, which calls for a steely straight face while delivering ripe dialogue and acting against kitsch sets -- not to mention Ferrell's weirdly intoned Spanish.

We sat down with Rodriguez for a chat last week, in which she reflected on working with Ferrell and his intentions behind playing a Mexican. Plus, she talked a little about working with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the forthcoming Last Stand. First, though -- before we ran out of time -- she ran through her all-time five favorite comedies...


It's such a tough question. It could be five favorite comedies?

It can be. If you insist.

Okay. Well, Step Brothers, because it's an innocent, funny movie and Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly just kill me. I just die of laughter.

I'm sorry, I'm gonna go there -- Anchorman is another one. [Laughs] Sorry. It's just genius. That type of humor is just genius.

It is genius, but... you do look like you're being paid by the Ferrell corporation.

Too bad! I was a huge fan.

I was a huge fan of Chevy Chase, so I'll have to just condense them and put Vacation, European Vacaction, and Christmas Vacation all under one.

Young Frankenstein. Mel Brooks. It's a classic.

Zoolander
(Ben Stiller; 2001; 64% Tomatometer)

I'm gonna make an obvious choice: Zoolander. And that's that. Very funny movie.

Next, Rodriguez on how her telenovela background prepped her for Casa de mi Padre, what she thinks of Will Ferrell's Spanish, and working with Arnold Schwarzenegger on Last Stand.

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1924762/news/1924762/

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