Rosie Perez says her conflict with Spike Lee was blown out of proportion
In a new interview, Rosie Perez shuts down decades-long speculation about bad blood with Spike Lee over her discomfort with a topless Do The Right Thing scene

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Take it from the definitive judge herself: Rosie Perez and Spike Lee are good. Although decades-old comments Perez made about working with Lee on 1989's Do The Right Thing have long drawn speculation on bad blood between the two, Perez addresses the question head-on in a new interview, emphasizing that she and the director who discovered her in a nightclub have maintained a fast friendship.
“In our cancel culture, some people need to be canceled,” Perez opines to Variety’s Tatiana Siegel. “And when I was telling the story, people were ready to cancel Spike Lee and cancel me for saying something. And I was like, ‘You know what? This is getting out of hand.’”