According to Rosie Perez’s legal team, the man responsible for her injuries was someone who didn’t specialize in stunts or physical scenes. The “Do the Right Thing” star, who didn’t back down when she faced backlash for her role in that film, was cast on “SVU” as the mother of an abused child who was getting into a tussle with another actor inside of a car — with Perez leaning in through the front window — when the extra grabbed her from behind and carried her away violently, per Perez’s suit. The person was playing a crossing guard.
“The thing to do was taking someone who knows what he’s doing to make it look violent without being violent,” said attorney Brian O’Dwyer. “This person was not a stuntman, he was just an extra” (via New York Daily News).
Perez’s story is sadly similar to that of many other actors, including former “Batwoman” star Ruby Rose, who accused Warner Bros. TV and people involved with the now-defunct CW show of abuse and negligence. According to Rose, she allegedly herniated two discs while doing stunts and was forced to have emergency neck surgery (via Insider). “I was risking becoming paralyzed,” Rose said in a September 2019 Instagram post. “I was in chronic pain and yet couldn’t feel my arms.”
Perez wound up settling her lawsuit with “SVU” and its production companies in February 2012 (via New York Daily News).
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