![]() In addition to encouraging a bit of friendly competition among local shops, the Bike Mechanic Challenge celebrates the people that keep everyone in Portland rolling. The whole evening was a fundraiser for the Community Cycling Center, but the event focused more broadly on showcasing the skills of bike mechanics that are a vital part of Portland’s bicycle ecosystem. Of course, it was really fun winning,” noted James Emond after The Missing Link took the lead. “We have done this two years in a row and it is extremely fun for us. They bested their competition-including last year’s returning champions, Bike Gallery-in four technical challenges to take home the grand prize of an engraved “Lefty Accidentally” Right Arm Repair Clamp from Efficient Velo Tools. – The Missing Link bike shop mechanics James Emond and Matt Glynn emerged victorious as the winners of the 2nd Annual Bike Mechanic Challenge last Saturday at Velo Cult Bike Shop. ![]() Saldaña returns to the screen later this month for Marvel’s highly anticipated Avengers: Endgame reprising her part as Gamora.News Release: The Missing Link Wins 2nd Annual Bike Mechanic ChallengeĮvent raises over $9,000 for the non-profit Community Cycling Center In this movie, she is rightly credited as Zoe Saldaña, in a rare appearance for the “ñ” in her last name (her IMDb page and most roles leave it out). To date, Saldaña’s sole role fully in Spanish was in the 2005 Dominican comedy La Maldición del Padre Cardona ( The Curse of Father Cardona) directed by Félix German, where she plays a girl from a small town whose sights are set on seducing a young priest visiting to solve a supernatural mystery. Her choice to enhance her interpretation of Adelina with Spanish-language dialogue for her most visceral scenes signals the importance it has for her personally as a way to connect to something more intimate. She brought some of that into the character too.” “I think it was informed by her family as well, certain conversations with her grandma and her mother. “I would ask Zoe, ‘If you were really that angry at this guy, what would you say?’ All I asked for was no swearing, and so she’d just come up with a few different versions,” said Butler. Rather than just being the token romantic interest, I wanted Adelina to have a richer backstory,” he said.īutler also revealed it was Saldaña who chose to speak in Spanish for the scene where is fuming. In an interview with Remezcla, director Chris Butler explained he always wanted Adelina to have a unique identity and a subplot of her own unrelated to her partner’s quest. The character is heard expressing her anger in that language following an argument with Lionel, and sporadically during the rest of their outing. Though we never learn her maiden name or other specifics about her origins, Adelina is suggested to have Latin American roots, as she lives in Santa Ana, California, and is bilingual, though we only hear her speak in Spanish a handful of times. Throughout the movie, as the clip shows, she stands her ground and expertly evades Lionel’s (voice by Hugh Jackman) romantic advances, because her journey is not about finding love, but about self-discovery. At first, her journey’s purpose is to fulfill what her late husband couldn’t achieve, but as she overcomes countless hurdles, the global trek transforms into a personal turning point for her. “ I love about Adelina is that she is curious, she is firm, and she is very independent,” says the actress in a featurette about the movie. In the newest film from Laika, the Portland-based stop motion studio, Saldaña debunks the outdated notion of the damsel in distress and acts as her own heroine in a movie that takes her across the globe with a British cryptozoologist and a cuddly sasquatch. ![]() As Adelina Fortnight, Dominican-American actress Zoe Saldaña simultaneously added a feminist edge and cultural diversity to the animated adventure Missing Link.
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