Danny Trejo despises method actors
Danny Trejo - who was released from prison in 1969 after stints for crimes including armed robbery and drug dealing - is known for playing tough guys on screen and insisted he doesn't have to go method because he has lived that life before.
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00:27show up.
00:30I you know what it's like people that stay in character annoying me.
00:36I can't be around them.
00:37I hate being at lunch.
00:39It's come on man.
00:45You know you you went to Juilliard.
00:47So I don't stay around you because I was that guy.
00:57Do you understand?
00:58The director once asked me because I had to I had to hit this guy with a gun and shoot
01:11this lady and push this other guy and then I had this guy on the floor saying I'll blow
01:16your head off and he said cut and then I went play with my kids.
01:20How do you do that daddy?
01:23I was that guy.
01:25I don't want to be that guy.
01:27That guy goes to prison and almost dies.
01:30So I don't like going there.
01:32I'll do it because they pay me a good money for it.
01:35You know but uh turn it on turn it off.
01:39Yeah you know it's like you know I have to and I understand you know some people can't
01:44you know and there's there are there are people that that will know they can't so they go
01:49off by themselves because they don't want to offend anybody.
01:52But then there's some you know ****** that like you know hey you're not tough okay.
01:59Absolutely.
02:20I sponsor quite a few people in narcotics and alcoholism and we still speak it at high
02:28schools and junior highs and prisons.
02:31Yes.
02:32If I'm not doing this that's what I'm doing.
02:33I think one of the gifts that the good Lord has given us is with the fact that I've been
02:41in prison did all that stuff and now the fact that I'm doing all these movies and stuff
02:45it gives me an unbelievable platform because the minute I walk on campus I have everybody's
02:54attention.
02:55I mean not Danny Trill but the guy from Heat, Desperado, Con Air, any movie you've seen
03:01oh wait there's that guy.
03:03I've been that guy for a long time.
03:06So it gives me that platform you know and like teachers have told me that hey all the
03:11kids that don't come to these things are here right now you know and that's because of the
03:16film so it's a great platform.
03:25you.