Danny Trejo
Maltin on Movies
Leonard Maltin
4.2 • 662 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The meanest-looking man on screen, the star of Robert Rodriguez’s Machete and its sequels, is perhaps better known Trejo’s Cantina and other food emporiums have revealed the truth: despite his violent background he has reinvented himself as a good guy and plays that role extremely well, onscreen and off. (He also headlines a new streaming movie, Seven Cemeteries.) Leonard and Jessie enjoyed meeting him (via Zoom) and hearing the story of how he accidentally broke into movies and wound up working with some of the biggest names in the business.
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| 0:33.4 | Hi everybody. I'm Leonard Malton. And I'm Jesse Malton. |
| 0:38.4 | You're listening to Malton on movies. |
| 0:40.7 | I don't know, other than Paul Newman, that anyone has branded themselves quite so beautifully as our guest today. |
| 0:51.5 | I asked my dad, if he remembered the first time he met him and you said it was at the |
| 0:55.3 | E.T. As an E.T. the extraterrestrial. They were doing like an anniversary. You met him there. My daughter |
| 1:03.6 | is obsessed with Big City Greens so she gets to listen to you. My husband is from the UK and |
| 1:09.9 | when he moved here, one of the greatest |
| 1:11.2 | joys of his life was that you were just starting to open up Trejo's tacos, Trejo's Donuts. He |
| 1:15.8 | loves your Cervaisa. So it's like every member of the family has you in some way, shape, |
| 1:22.9 | or form. And I think that's pretty incredible. And our guest is Danny Trejo, which if you can't guess, he's done everything. |
| 1:31.6 | Where do you guys live? |
| 1:33.8 | In Sherman Oaks? |
| 1:35.0 | Exotic. |
| 1:35.2 | I don't lie. |
| 1:36.0 | Dinner's on me. |
| 1:38.8 | That's great. |
| 1:40.5 | That's great. |
| 1:42.3 | From a life that has encompassed everything, from prison to donuts. |
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