Meet Rosa Salazar, the 'Bird Box' star who lends heart and soul to 'Alita: Battle Angel'
LOS ANGELES - In "Alita: Battle Angel," opening Feb. 14, Rosa Salazar breathes remarkable life into the title role of an amnesiac cyborg who wakes up in a post-apocalyptic dystopia, searching for answers to who she is and where she came from. So perhaps it's appropriate that a multitude of distinct moments from past lives remains vividly with the 33-year-old actress.
There was the childhood spent in Washington, D.C., and neighboring Hyattsville, Md., eating Peruvian food at her grandmother's home and listening to her sing in Quechua.
The legal emancipation, at 15, that got Salazar out of foster care and instilled in her the kind of independence that can't be taught.
The Nomadic teen years spent wandering across America, hungrily amassing an unorthodox education in a spectrum of human experience from Puget Sound to St. Augustine, Fla.
The wild times bartending and living behind a Washington, D.C., punk bar, feeling the growing
