Extra: The Craft of John Leguizamo’s Theatrical Schizophrenia
Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
PRX
4.6 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
John Leguizamo has a long and successful film and TV career. Early on he had recurring roles on Miami Vice and ER and worked with directors like Brian DePalma, Spike Lee, and Baz Lurhman. And he also provided a voice in the endless animated franchise Ice Age, playing Sid the sloth.
But alongside this life on screen, Leguizamo has also built a singularly successful theater career based on a form he helped pioneer — the funny autobiographical one-man play.
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| 0:00.0 | from PRX |
| 0:03.4 | I'm Kurt Anderson and this is the Studio 360 podcast |
| 0:10.4 | John Leguizamo has a long and successful career in film and television. |
| 0:28.7 | Very early on in his career in his 20s, he had recurring roles on Miami Vice and ER, |
| 0:34.4 | and he worked with film directors like Brian De Palma and Spike Lee and Bos |
| 0:38.7 | Lerman. And for years, he's been a regular character voice in the endless animated franchise |
| 0:45.0 | Ice Age, playing cute little Sid the Sloth. |
| 0:48.2 | They left without me. They do this every year. Why? |
| 0:55.0 | Doesn't anyone love me? |
| 0:58.0 | Isn't there anyone who cares about shit that's lost? |
| 1:02.0 | But alongside this TV and movie career, Leguizamo has also built this singularly successful theater career |
| 1:11.7 | based on a form that he helped pioneer, the funny autobiographical one-man play. |
| 1:18.4 | Starting in 1991 with Mambo Mouth, which was a collection of vignettes, each around a different |
| 1:26.6 | Latin character, all of them played by Leguizamo, including |
| 1:29.6 | this one, a witty trans prostitute called Manny the Fannie. |
| 1:33.7 | But until I day, they don't live on dreams, because there are no Prince Charmings coming |
| 1:41.1 | to save you, just a lot of frogs. |
| 1:45.7 | So you know what you do? |
| 1:46.2 | You know what you do? |
| 1:48.5 | You take your frog by his little green dick and you make them do what you want to do. |
| 1:51.2 | Because you are a Latina the 90s gay with a program, miha. |
| 1:59.1 | Because if it wasn't for a Spanish woman, Columbus would have never discovered America. |
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