Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Stephanie Beatriz

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 18 January 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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A warning about this episode, which originally aired in 2017: the second half of this interview contains some honest and frank talk about sexual assault. Stephanie Beatriz stars in Brooklyn Nine Nine as Detective Rosa Diaz - easily the toughest cop in the precinct - she's brave, serious, and rides a motorcycle. The sixth and newest season just premiered at its new home: NBC! Stephanie also starred in the 2017 movie The Light of The Moon. She plays Bonnie, a young woman living in Brooklyn with her boyfriend. Towards the beginning of the film, she goes through a vicious sexual assault, and the movie tells the story of the aftermath of that event - its effect on her work life, relationship, and even mundane daily decisions - like whether or not she wears headphones when she's walking off the subway. It's brutal to watch, but it's also nuanced, realistic, and really touching. We'll talk about all of that and also how she and her Dad cemented their father-daughter bond by watching Seinfeld:

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0:00.0	A quick warning in this interview, there is some open and honest talk about sexual assault.
0:05.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:18.0	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:20.0	Music
0:28.0	My guest is Stephanie Bay of Trees.
0:30.0	The five seasons she has starred on the hit show Brooklyn 9.9, it's absolutely one of my favorite shows on TV.
0:37.0	Everybody in it is fantastic.
0:39.0	Terry Cruz, Andy Sandberg, Chelsea Peretti, Andre Brower.
0:43.0	The show got canceled on Fox last year, but fear not.
0:46.0	It's coming back for a sixth season on NBC.
0:50.0	The new season just premiered.
0:52.0	Stephanie plays Detective Rosa Diaz and Rosa is easily the toughest cop in the pre-sync.
0:58.0	She's brave, serious, she rides a badass motorcycle.
1:02.0	She's so tough in fact that she won't even let a cold keep her down.
1:06.0	I don't need your help because I am not sick.
1:10.0	Gina, where is the cold medicine?
1:12.0	I hate to point out the obvious so, but why do you need the medicine if you're not sick?
1:17.0	To fight off the cold symptoms that my healthy body is exhibiting.
1:23.0	When Stephanie and I talked in 2017, she was starring in a movie with a very, very different tone.
1:29.0	It's called The Light of the Moon.
1:31.0	In it, she plays Bonnie, a young woman living in Brooklyn with her boyfriend.
1:35.0	Toward the beginning of the film, she goes through a vicious sexual assault.
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