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Majandra Delfino wants out of 'Roswell'Date published: 2/14/2002
She isn't Maria. Majandra Delfino dearly wants you to know that. No, she's nothing like the air-headed teen character on "Roswell," the UPN show about adolescent aliens. She doesn't even like the show that's landed her on the cover of Seventeen and gotten her a sexy layout in FHM men's entertainment magazine. As a matter of fact, she despises the TV program that's brought her fame. The 20-year-old Delfino thinks of herself not as an actress, but a musician--and she wants to go back to music as soon as possible. The problem is that just about everyone else thinks of her as a TV actress. "Which makes me laugh," she said in a telephone interview with The Free Lance-Star from Los Angeles. "I've never taken an acting lesson or been in a play." Delfino, the daughter of Venezuelan and Cuban-American parents, was born in Caracas, began playing piano She wants to go back to that and sees no redeeming social value in being on "Roswell"--not even as a vehicle to launch her music career. "It could have been a vehicle, but if anything, I see it as kind of like a hindrance," Delfino said. "People think I'm my character. Unfortunately, I play this really peppy, ditzy character," she said. Her music couldn't be less peppy. She's self-released a debut six-song EP titled "The Sicks" on her own Dripfeed Records label. The music, which is dark, melodic electronica, is available through majandra.com on the Web. The darkness reflected in "The Sicks" comes from personal experience, she said. The EP and the song "Bruises" deals with struggling to handle emotional wounds. "This is definitely not an album where we looked at it and thought, 'What would make me look cool? Let's go dark,'" Delfino said. It's the real Majandra, she said. She wants to go on tour to promote "The Sicks" but "Roswell" is holding her back, she said. She's hoping the show, which has low ratings, is dropped by UPN.
Date published: 2/14/2002
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