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About the John Leguizamo
John Alberto Leguizamo Pelaezis an American stand-up comedian, actor, and film producer. He has appeared in over 100 films, produced over 20 films and documentaries, made over 30 television appearances, and has produced various television projects. He has also written and performed for the Broadway stage receiving four Tony Award nominations for Freak in 1998, Sexaholix in 2002, and Latin History for Morons in 2018. He received a Special Tony Award in 2018.
Leguizamo began his career as a stand-up comedian in New York City. After several years of doing supporting roles in film and television, he rose to fame with major roles in the fantasy adventure Super Mario Bros. portraying Luigi and the crime drama Carlito’s Way portraying Benny Blancoand played Sid the Sloth in the Ice Age franchise and Bruno Madrigal in Encantofor which he received the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. This was a historic win, making Leguizamo was the first ever Latino to win this award in Emmy history. He received further Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the Paramount miniseries Wacoand the Netflix limited series When They See Us (2019). He has also appeared on ER, The Kill Point, Bloodline, and The Mandalorian. In 2023, he hosted the MSNBC series Leguizamo Does America.
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I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That’s what I really love the most.
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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.
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Latins for Republicans – it’s like roaches for Raid.
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He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he’s always operating.
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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.
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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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