John Leguizamo: From The Ice Age To The Odyssey

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

Dana Carvey, David Spade, & Audacy

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 11.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The guys sit down with the unstoppable John Leguizamo and dive into everything from getting in fights as a kid to then voicing Sid in Ice Age and getting revenge at the sequel negotiation table, then being typecast in Hollywood, and what it’s like working with Nolan, DiCaprio, and Schwarzenegger. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Because I was the flavor that they were looking for, sort of like a ghetto hood. Yeah. You know, I had to be working against that because, you know, my acting teachers when I was 17, they were all like, no one can understand you with that accent. Do you really speak that way? And I was like, you know, I was like, I was like, hey, yo man, what you want? What you need to me? I'll be right there for you, well, what's up? You know, I would talk like that.
0:01.7	It was so dope. Good God. I was like, you know, I was like, hey, yo man, what you want? What you need to me?
0:20.9	I'm going to be right there for you, well, what's up?
0:22.6	You know, I used to talk like that.
0:24.2	It was so dope because they thought it was going to be a bomb.
0:27.3	They thought Ice H was going to be a serious bomb.
0:30.4	They had closed down Fox animation because they thought it was over.
0:34.4	Like, I'm not joking.
0:35.8	They thought it was over. Like, I'm not joking. They thought it was over. There was no merchandise, no advertising.
0:38.8	This shit.
0:39.5	It was blew up.
0:42.1	Cup the balls.
0:43.6	Work the shaft.
0:44.8	Cut the ball.
0:47.5	That's right out of my playbook.
0:51.1	All right.
0:51.6	We have a gentleman on here, Dan.
0:54.7	You're a gentleman, but so is our guest.
0:59.0	Yeah, I'm a gent.
1:00.0	Mm-hmm.
1:01.0	I was in a club in high school called Gents.
1:05.0	Would you like to be referred to as a gent or a class act?
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