John Leguizamo, Still In Search Of John Leguizamo

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4.6 • 14.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This week, Gene welcomes NPR's Audie Cornish to talk about multi-talented writer, producer and comedian John Leguizamo. As a performer, he's mined his Latino identity through his own family and old New York neighborhoods for decades. Audie interviewed Leguizamo in New York during the current run of his latest one-man show, Latin History For Morons. Now a father, Leguizamo struggles with what he knows and what he can teach his son and daughter about being Latino in the U.S., while challenging himself to be the dad he'd always wanted his own father to be.

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0:00.0	I'm embarrassed that I did not know enough about my,
0:03.2	about my ancestry to pass on to my kids.
0:05.9	I mean, I, I, I kind of sort of knew about our,
0:09.6	about our land timeline.
0:10.7	What is that?
0:11.9	Everybody knows that, right?
0:12.8	1000 BC, we had Mayans, and then we have now.
0:17.9	And what is this?
0:21.4	The age of pit bull?
0:24.0	Oh, pit bull.
0:24.9	What's good, this is Co-switch.
0:26.8	I'm Gene.
0:27.3	And then we, that voice you just heard was John Legosamo,
0:29.8	the multi-hyphenic actor, comedian, playwright, producer.
0:33.5	He was in Carlitos Way and two-wong-fu.
0:35.8	All those Ice Age movies, he's got all the jobs, basically.
0:39.3	But in his job as a playwright,
0:40.3	he's consistently taken on what it means to be Latino,
0:42.4	particularly in New York City, as a child of immigrants.
0:44.6	He's Colombian American, by the way,
0:46.0	but more than that a little bit later.
0:47.3	Legosamo's latest is his fifth one-man show
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