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Gomez Addams. Show all 8 episodes. Rodrigo Smalls voice. Rodrigo Smalls credit only. Show all 6 episodes. Mikey O'Shea. Mikey O'Shea as Luis Guzman. Alejandro 'El Guapo' Villabuena. Hector Contreras as Luis Guzman. For me, it was absolutely a learning experience, so I benefited from that, because when I show up on set, I know what my attitude is.
It's not something I have to make up. I experienced it, I lived it. That for me was such a great movie, because it captured that quote-unquote "criminal element" of someone just trying to make it [who] gets sucked right back into it, and you can't trust nobody. Johnny Leguizamo was in there too, and it was a great story about a guy from the neighborhood who just couldn't get out of it.
I don't think it was nowhere near the level that Carlito's Way was. But for me, anyway, it was just one of those roles where I saturated myself with it and just went for it.
It's like jumping off a building without a parachute, but I'm having enough confidence that I'm going to land. On The Brave You know, that movie was never released. It was Johnny [Depp]'s first stab at directing. I play his main nemesis in that movie. I love Johnny. Johnny's a great guy. I had fun working side-by-side with him. It's a struggle, man. It's a struggle to be as young as he was and be directing a movie like that and just trying to make it all work.
He was trying his own path to it. But just knowing I got to work on a movie with one of my idols was awesome. It was work, you know? I just put myself into that role, being the most badass motherfucker that I could be. That's how I approach it. The thing about some of these characters, it's like you've got to really fucking go for it.
You have to strip yourself of everything and just go for it. Whether it's being a cop, whether it's being somebody's sidekick, there are certain elements to those characters that you've got to bring all this stuff to the table. It's something I'm really proud of. I don't think I've played the same role twice in a movie. When I show up it's, "Okay, it's a fresh slate. Where I grew up, it looked like a bomb hit that neighborhood.
I grew up with every single element, good and bad-you want to talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly, I got all of that, so my life was always my reference to different characters that I've played. So when I did that movie with Johnny, The Brave, it was a guy [who] just didn't give a fuck who he was.
He just went for it, "I'm badder than you. It sat in my office for six months. One day I walk in and I go, "I've got to clean this place up, what a mess. I got to the bottom of the pile and I said, "Oh, wow, Boogie Nights. All right, let me check it out. I sat down and I started to read the script. I kept reading it, and I read the whole thing in one reading. I was blown away at how well the story was written, how eloquent it was. It was an incredible story.
I called him up, and I said, "Dude, I just read your script. Blew me away! So I had this conversation with him, and I think I was in my mids, so I ask him, "Dude, how old are you? Oh, okay. You okay? It was probably one of the most amazing experiences, shooting that movie, especially that whole opening sequence.
It's just one long camera take. Just seeing Paul's passion for it and everything, and all the cats who were involved in it. Of course, I didn't know who half of the people were that I was working with, I might have seen this guy or this girl, but for the most part, I was just blended into this awesome group of people. For information about our guidelines, and access to the letter form, please click here.
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