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“They were never going to pick me”: John Leguizamo on how rejection made him (www.salon.com)
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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 37 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

leguizamo has always been gold to me. the guy seems to put everything into his performances. hes always popping up where i least expect him.

[-] thejoker954@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Same. I can't recall any role of his where I thought he was bad. Even in bad movies he's a bright spot.

[-] karashta@lemm.ee 24 points 6 months ago

He was even, by far, the best thing about the terrible Spawn movie from the 90s. Absolutely love him

[-] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

I don't remember much from that movie. Only that it was amazing and John Leguizamo was the best part of it.

[-] karashta@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

Trust me. That's all you really need to remember haha.

If you want to see good Spawn from that era, watch the cartoon. That was well done.

[-] livus@kbin.social 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Fantastic interview! He's smart as well as a great actor. This bit stands out to me:

Because the content — Native American, Latino. They keep saying that they want to be inclusive and have us on board, but they don't green-light. They don't green-light our stories. We’re 30% of the box office in America — Latin people — 30% of subscribers on streaming, 30% of the sports fans, and you're not going to have our stories.

It's crazy, man. They're taxing us without representation. We have to do it ourselves. Tyler Perry said it. They're not going to give us a seat to the table. We got to make our own table. I agree.

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

To wong foo. Legend

[-] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Little Latin boy in drag, why are you crying?

[-] KAYDUBELL@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago

One of my favorite “b list” actors. I’ll watch most anything he’s in

[-] livus@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago

Me too. Fantastic actor and underrated.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 6 months ago

My head canon on Leguizamo is that he's so dedicated to his craft, when he was Clown in Spawn, he actually took a bite of a real maggot pizza.

[-] Dangdoggo@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

Lmfao underrated comment right here

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

He’s great in The Menu.

[-] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 6 points 6 months ago

Nothing but love for my Tybalt.

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

He was absolutely incredible in that role. Perfect casting.

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