John Leguizamo

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 31 October 2021

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John Leguizamo immigrated to the United States from Colombia when he was 4 years old and since then he’s made his way to some of the biggest screens and stages in America, starring in films like Carlito’s Way, Super Mario Bros and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. In this week’s Sunday Sitdown, Willie Geist gets together with the Tony and Emmy-winning actor to talk about his prolific career and his latest groundbreaking project in the superhero universe.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.1	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:09.3	Got a great one for you today with truly a great guy and one of the most talented people
0:14.1	in Hollywood are on Broadway.
0:15.6	John Leguizamo, he's the Emmy and Tony winning actor who you may know from his one-man
0:21.8	shows like Freak or Latin History for Morons or for his long list of films going back
0:28.8	to Carlitos Way, the Mario Brothers.
0:33.2	Come on guys, he was in Super Mario Brothers.
0:35.2	How great is that?
0:36.2	He was Luigi, two-wong-fu.
0:39.2	Let's not forget the Bosnian film.
0:40.8	He did Romeo and Juliet, Mulan Rouge, the list goes on and on and on.
0:45.9	We talk about a lot of them.
0:47.0	He was also the voice of a prehistoric sloth in Ice Age.
0:50.7	A little something for everybody in here and also just a great personal story.
0:54.6	He immigrated to the United States with his family from Columbia when he was three years
0:59.0	old, moved to Jackson Heights, Queens.
1:01.4	He is a New Yorker through and through.
1:03.6	And as you'll hear, use performance and comedy to get by in his neighborhood and has
1:08.9	gone on to do just incredible things.
1:11.0	His latest project is a comic book series.
1:14.9	It's an actual comic book, not an animated film.
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