John Leguizamo
John Leguizamo
John Alberto Leguizamo is a Colombian-American actor, voice actor, producer, stand-up comedian, playwright and screenwriter. As of 2009, Leguizamo has appeared in over 75 films, produced over 10 films, starred on Broadway in several productions, made over a dozen television appearances, and has produced or starred in many other television shows...
NationalityColombian
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth22 July 1964
CountryColombia
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I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.
breaking rules script
There are just so many intellectual things with the script that aren't normal, ... breaking all the rules, and it still works.
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Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.
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a ton of research -- more than I've ever done before for anything. I've hit this point in my career where I just love doing research. It's what feeds me -- going and living the life of my character -- so for this I went to Ecuador a month or two ahead to work on my Spanish and get the feel for the place. I also traveled around with this local TV reporter who was doing the same thing Manolo does, and every morning we'd go to the morgue to cover murders.
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My parents talked to me in Spanish and I answered in English,
came early mother
My mother came in early in the process,
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If I was in Hollywood and I got bitten by a zombie, I would want to stay a zombie and then take down as many people as I could,
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He was like twitching and frothing and it was my father, ... I went like all pale. I felt all the blood leave my body. And then my father was like, 'How dare you?' And he stormed out of the theater and I followed him and we fought and argued and hugged and he cried and we made up.
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He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.
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Guys who have tons of power, who're charming, but at the same time incredibly Machiavellian.
crying
Well, look at me for crying out loud,
type work
When you're that type of personality and come into any work environment,
came crew encouraged night
Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk.
He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he's always operating.