NBC’s new drama “Rise” stars Rosie Perez as a high school teacher who struggles with being pushed aside when another teacher, played by Josh Radnor, makes a play for her job as head of the theater department.Perez and Radnor’s characters, Tracey Wolfe and Lou Mazzuchelli, eventually form an alliance, for the sake of the kids hungry to be challenged by putting on an ambitious musical — but the fact that Perez’s character, a Latina woman, is passed over by a white man is extremely timely in this age of “Time’s Up” and #MeToo.“I think for her to get passed over in the way that she was passed over hurt to her core,” Perez said of Tracey.
“This was her dream to run the department.
It stings that a middle-aged white guy gets the job, not the Latina woman.
That’s a bitter pill to swallow.
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