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Pbe«o cnfteir Cralurr FnTia Carrere is Jingo Asakuma, who helps two Los Angeles Police Department officers solve a murder in 'Rising Sun.' Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes also star in tho movie.From ‘Wayne’s World’ to ‘Sun’Tia Carrere does not see techno wizard role as stereotyping JapaneseBy Barbara VnnchcriK!Ulni«« PmlGiuiM NEW YORK - Tia Carrere remembers when Sean Connery walked into the room for tbo first road-through of Rising Sun. There was a perceptible pause at the conference table or, as she says, Yes. Elvis has entered the building.The rocking babe in Wayne's World.” Carrere went from co-starring with Mike Myers and Dana Carvey to working with Connery and Wesley Snipes. She's the girl in an all boy movie, one wag notes. Actually, she corrects, she’s the girl in an allprostitute girl movie. It's sort of a turnaround. Usually it’s the exotic-looking one who's the prostitute, now It’s the ’ ’*1 was mo •aeHad whan I read the script and realised there wet no love ■cane, no gratuitous aei scene. There waa none of that stuff. It was lust about being smart, solving a crime.’— Tie CarrereftIn Rising Sun,” the Hawaiian native ays Jingo, a technology wizard who Ips two LAPD officers solve a murder by analyzing a sophisticated video of the crime scene. The character is the daughter of an African-American father and Japanese mother, an outcast in Japan because of her heritage and a misshapen hand.Jingo is a great role, and I knew from the beginning that I had to have it. It was a lot of work convincing (director) Phil Kaufman I was the right one. I had read the book, which in this case was to my detriment. I went in looking like a college student.”That was Theresa, from the Michael Crichton novel. In the movie. Jingo is older and more sophisticated. Carrere crimped and pulled back her hair, videotaped her new self and convinced Kaufman she was the one. Eyeglasses also add an older, serious tone.I was so excited when I read the script and realized there was no love scene,' no gratuitous sex scene. There was none of that stuff. It was just about being smart, aolving a crime” and in one scene, charging into a room like the Three Musketeers with Connery and Snipes.Carrere had met the Scottish actor - “a living, walking, breathing legend, this is James Bond” - at an American Cinematheque Award ceremony. ”1 was asked to sing Goldfinger’ for Goldfmger himself, so I mot him and his wife under social circumstances, and that kind of broke the ice a little bit .”Although controversy is swirling around the depiction of the Japanese in Rising Sun, Carrere sees Jingo as one of the redeeming elements of the film. Seeing an Asian-American female in a role that wai so strong and intelligent and not madeinto a sex object... 1 think that can only be positive for Asian American actresses or actors in the future.”Too often, she laments, she’s rejected for roles with the sweeping statement. We didn’t see that part as being ethnic.” Carrere. who describes herself as ahula girl from Hawaii” whose ancestors pan; sry.the parents of the producer of the filmFilipino. Chinese and Spanish, was discovered in a Hawaiian grocery store byAloha Summer. She had just come from a modeling job and was in makeup with a floral garland crowning her long, dark hair.“It wasn't like some lecherous. Hey baby, we can pul you in a movie.' ” she says with a laugh. It was like. ’Oh darling, you’re perfect for my son's movie.’ After that. Carrere cut her teeth with a role on General Hospital.” all the while taking acting and singing lessons. I think if you sit back and wait for the big project* that are going to make you a movie star, then that’s what drives you nuts.” she says.Carrere, whose golden skin is a few shades lighter than the (shirllest) silky brown vest and jacket she's wearing, is in fine spirits, even aftor hours of questioning. Sounding like an ad-hoc member of the Pointer Slaters, she burbles. I’m really happy. I’m so excited.” She has Rising Sun.” a single coming out this month, an album in September, her first wedding anniversary in November and Wayne’s World ir by year’s end.Schwinging ahead to Wayne’s World.” someone asks about the reported feuding between Myers and Carvey.I read all those things and you guys have, too. that they were fighting about how funny they were. From what I've seen on the set, I haven’t seen any antagonistic behavior. They've been the same as they were on (the first one!....We have a lot more time now and a lot more leeway to make sure things are right” she says. The script for Wayne’s World II’ is just as funny as part one - if not funnier.”
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