For a performer who been in the biz since she was 16 and a Telemundo veteran to boot, Génesis was pretty awkward in acting and line delivery (not helped by the shitty script). Maybe English being her second language but still.....
The vivacious Génesis was also embroiled in sex scandal at tender age of 16 in 2004 when filming Prisionera for Telemundo. She developed a crush on the lead actor Mauricio Islas. The 30-years old married Mauricio was dumb enough to encourage the flirtation between the two. Under the pretense of mentoring the young teen, the Latin hero was soon boning the virginal Génesis.
But the May-December couple was caught in the act during a network party. Let’s just say Génesis mouth was busy choking on something. Mauriciowas quick to claim it was consensual; was experiencing psychological issues that led him to sleep with a teenager. He was eventually sacked from the show and wife left him. To avoid lengthy jail time for statutory rape - settles out of court with Génesis and her family with millions of dollars exchanging hands including generous payout by Telemundo. Mauricio was also spared getting ass-fucked in jail thanks to Génesis insistence she initiated the relationship. It was huge scandal among Miami Hispanic communities and Latin America.
Later the young millionaires claimed she was manipulated into sleeping with Mauricio and kept on swallowing his jism out of fear and confusion. The incident was psychologically damaging in many ways to Génesis as you expect with teen rape victims. She prefers to date older men (much to her family chagrin), developed low self-esteem issues with her appearance (plastic tits was the byproduct).
To be the fair NBC (Telemundo owners) was very protective of their teen star (also making sure she don’t blabbered too much about the sexual assault). Génesis become a fixture on couple of subsequent Telemundo telenovelas.
Hungering for success on big screen and with help of respectable ICM and De Paz Management, Génesis was soon acing the auditions (ignore the nasty rumors) with pivotal roles in Man on a Ledge and Will Ferrell’s Casa de mi Padre.
So far no news if Génesis is in Paz de la Huerta camp or Sofia Vergara’s when it comes to nudity by Latinas. We can only hope she will have a nude scene in upcoming The Last Stand directed by Jee-woon Kim who made the harrowing masterpiece I Saw the Devil.
Génesis plays Agent Ellen Richards and according to film synopsis:
Sheriff Owens is a man who has resigned himself to a life of fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction after leaving his LAPD post following a bungled operation that left him wracked with failure and defeat after his partner was crippled. After a spectacular escape from an FBI prisoner convoy, the most notorious, wanted drug kingpin in the hemisphere is hurtling toward the border at 200 mph in a specially outfitted car with a hostage and a fierce army of gang members. He is headed, it turns out, straight for Summerton Junction, where the whole of U.S. law enforcement will have their last opportunity to make a stand and intercept him before he slips across the border forever. At first reluctant to become involved, and then counted out because of the perceived ineptitude of his small town force, Owens ultimately accepts responsibility for the face off.
Just pray the ‘hostage’ is a female and he snatched the female agent during the breakout. With Jee-woon eye for detail when it comes to sexual violence……….