A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay. Not just because of us, but because the entire Spanish-speaking community is occupying all types of social positions-from congressmen all the way down to the people who take out the garbage cans. |
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself. |
Basically he's sharp, vicious and amoral character and also very, I wanted to make him very unpredictable. |
Broadway is not about money. It's about performing. I love that possibility of independence. I have to use it. Money was an issue when I didn't have it. Now that I do, the good thing is I don't have to think about it. The rest of my life has to be focusing on what I love. |
But at the same time he's more elegant, ... You've got a sly thing going with him that I like. He's imperfect, a little bit clumsy, and jealous and drunk. All of that humanizes the character and makes him very approachable. Everybody in the audience can recognize a little bit of themselves in him; and then everybody roots for you to be the guy he's supposed to be. That's the part of the movie I enjoy the most, all the comedy. |
For me it is beautiful that because there is a character in the film that speaks with a Spanish accent, the Spanish-speakers answer to that. The studios know that there is an audience there that shouldn't be misused. They are part of the American melting pot. |
He fights with the traditional Spanish weapon, the sword, and disdains the impersonal Anglo-Saxon weapon, the gun. |
Hey, boss. Let's shave him. |
Hey, boss. Let's shave him. |
I admired Melanie before I loved her. |
I can do the horse and the sword, it's all me in the movie, ... I feel very comfortable with horses. The sword thing is tough because you have to train a lot. It's just repetition after repetition after repetition. |
I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film .. which honestly reflects what I have in my head. |
I don't think I'm a dancer. I'm just an actor who tries to make people believe that I do the activity. |
I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid. |
I hate Mondays. |