Rosie Perez Says She Would Have Been ‘in a Lab Looking Down a Microscope’ If She Never Met Spike Lee

Rosie Perez Says She Would Have Been ‘in a Lab Looking Down a Microscope’ If She Never Met Spike Lee

The actress, 61, almost had an entirely different careerJamie McCarthy/Getty Spike Lee and Rosie PerezNEED TO KNOWRosie Perez likely would have been a marine biologist if she hadn't been discovered by director Spike LeeShe spoke to PEOPLE about Lee casting her in 1989's Do the Right Thing at the Wall Street Journal Innovator Awards 2025 on Oct. 29“He changed my life," she admittedRosie Perez almost had a completely different career. Perez tells …