You Might Know Her From

Patricia Velásquez


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Patricia Velásquez is our very first supermodel turned actress on the show! You Might Know Her From The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, The Curse of La Llorona, Arrested Development, Liz in September, American Family, and The L Word. Patricia opened up about her decision to publicly come out in her memoir Straight Walk : A Supermodel's Journey to Finding Her Truth on the heels of headlining Liz in September, the first Spanish language film about lesbians. We talked about how The Mummy Returns is lesbian canon, why her character on The L Word didn’t get more to do, and what it was like to be on the set of Arrested Development with a bunch of comedy men (and Liza!). All that, plus Patricia gives us the dream exercise that she used to make peace with La Llorona, and tells us tales of making history as the first Latina (and lesbian) supermodel, who happened to be in a relationship with Sandra Bernhard in the 1990s. Truly, what a treat. 

Peter Pan Donuts is the best donut shop in all of NYC

Real World: Homecoming is Real World Reunion with Eric NIes, Julie, Heather B, Kevin

Eric Nies does ayahuasca and is a healer. Not doing The Grind anymore

Elle Mcpherson, Christy Turlington, Helena Christensen, Claudia Schiffer

Loved Mtv’s House of Style and Cindy Crawford shaving kd lang on cover of Vanity Fair

Rupaul’s “Supermodel

Landmark lesbian play: Last Summer in Bluefish Cove (1980 Off Broadway) 

Venezuelan director, Fina Torres directed Liz in September (2014)

Ivana Chubbuck is Patricia’s acting teacher

The Kids are All Right (2010, Lisa Cholodenko

Patricia’s memoir Straight Walk: A Supermodel’s Journey to Finding Her Truth 

Appeared in the 90s fashion documentaries: Unzipped (Isaac Mizrahi) Catwalk (Christy Turlilngton) 

Dated Sandra Bernhard in the 90s

Appeared on Season 5 of The L Word as Begoña in Jenny’s film, Les Girls (dressed down Kate French)

Was friendly with Ilene Chaiken (creator of The L Word)

Co-starred in the PBS drama, American Family (opposite Edward James Olmos). The first broadcast show to have an all Latino cast.

Plays Anck Su Namun, the Pharoah’s Mistress in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns

Renee Zellweger was shooting Bridget Jones' Diary when Patricia was shooting The Mummy

Rachel Weisz vs Patricia Velasquez in The Mummy Returns is lesbian canon

Rachel has lesbian cred now because of The Favourite and Disobedience

The Curse of La Llorona with Linda Cardellini is part of The Conjuring franchise

La Llorona is “The Weeping Woman” aka a ghost who roams waterfront areas mourning her drowned children.

Played Marta in Arrested Development (different actress played her in the pilot) and was pals with Liza. She gets a lot of “hermano” on the street.

Was on Celebrity Apprentice to The Wayuu Taya Foundation. Of her cast, she was pals with Debbie Gibson, Tia Carrere, adn Dayana Mendoza. And Arsenio was cool

Is 5’8½“ which is short for a model. Kate Moss was also short at 5’8” 

Turn it Up with Ja Rule and Mindhunters with LL Cool J

Starred in an episode of Ugly Betty opposite Carlos Leon (Madonna’s ex)

Has an arc on Rescue Me as Nes, Daniel Sunjata’s ex

Last season of The L Word is a murder mystery

Queer as Folk reboot? It’s a go

Anne hopes they get rid of Hal Sparks. But we are into Thea Gill and Michelle Clunie

Michelle has a child with Bryan Singer

Hal Sparks’ character had bfs that were out of his league

Hal Sparks didn’t know men could have sex facing each other

Patricia was in The Mummy with Rachel Weisz, who was in The Favourite with Emma Stone, who was in Crazy STUPID Love (not sexy as Anne said) with Julianne Moore who was in Vanya on 42nd Street with next week’s guest (and previous YMKHF guest, Madhur Jaffrey). 

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