TS: Wes Studi vs. Danny Trejo

Wait, it was Studi. I could have sworn it was Trejo.

Trejo, no contest

I remember more Danny Trejo movies so Danny Trejo. The doc about him was not interesting as I hoped though.

I remember the first time I saw Danny Trejo in Desperado I thought, "why the fuck isn't this movie about him?!?!?"

wes studi all the way, even though it sometimes feels like every film in which native americans are present are bound by law to give him a role.

still, Magua is awes. when the grey hair is dead, that motherfucker promised to eat his heart, and dammit if he didn't rip that shit out.

also, he was the Sphinx!!!

both were in 'heat'!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Studi

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0836071/

http://www.mohicanpress.com/images/s_willis_magua1.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Trejo

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001803/

http://www.ramasscreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/machete.jpg

haha i was really thinking of starting this poll a while back

magua always wins btw

i mean, fukkin MAGUA

MACHETE.

> magua always wins btw

Not how I remember it, actually.

http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/image_film/MysteryMen_37.jpg

Dangit, can't find a screencap of Octavio.

for the daytime posters

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last chance!

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A narrow, and of course bloody - almost pyrrhyic in fact - victory.

Danny Trejo, hero:

The Expendables (2010)—no actual role

DT: Let me tell you about The Expendables. (Writer-director Sylvester) Stallone said I was in The Expendables so he could raise his money, you know what I mean? (Laughs.) Because I bring in the Latin audience. So I was in The Expendables all the way up until the time they started casting. I’m not in The Expendables. That’s one of Hollywood’s ploys to… how do you say it? They have this huge cast, and then all of a sudden, when it comes time to cast, the people that actually raised the money aren’t in it.

AVC: Forest Whitaker and 50 Cent were also supposedly in it at some point. Do you feel like Sylvester Stallone used you?

DT: Of course. Come on, man. (Laughs.) All them guys—supplements are making them nuts.

Breaking Bad (2009-2010)—“Tortuga”

DT: Tortuga. “The Turtle.” That was funny. My head ends up on top of a turtle, so people try to tease me. They say, “Hey! We saw your head on top of a turtle!” I tell them, “Yeah, well, my body was at the bank.” (Laughs.)

That Trejo interview is all kinds of awesome. Go read it now!

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)—“Prison Inmate”

DT: You know what? I did a movie with Charles Bronson before that, Death Wish 4. I met him, and one of the guys on the movie, one of the young guys, got shitty with an old character actor named Perry Lopez, who was like 80 years old and had emphysema. He couldn’t even blow out a candle on a cake. He’s been in the movies since like the ’30s. He was trying to set up our little scene, and then all of the sudden, out of the clear blue sky, this guy who thought he was cute says, “Who the fuck nominated you director?” And I laughed; I thought he was joking. This guy’s 80 years old. Perry says, “No, no, I’m trying to set up this little scene so we all won’t be standing here.”

So this punk comes up, he says, “I went to blah blah,” just some, I don’t know what the hell it is, Lee Strasberg or some bullshit training, “and I don’t need no has-been actor to give me direction.” Then I realized this guy wasn’t kidding. I’m thinking, “This guy’s 80. Anybody over 40 is an older person. You better give them some respect.” So I just jacked this punk up and told him, “You know what, bitch? I’ll beat your ass. I nominated him director. Now fuck you. Do whatever he says.” This guy looks at me, almost starts crying, and says, “Hey, I’m trying to stay in character.” I was, “Well, your character’s about to get his ass beat.”

So then I turn around. Charles Bronson is standing right behind me, and he’s watching this. And the last thing you want anybody to see is that you could be violent on a movie set. I look at Charlie, and he saw what I was doing. But he says, “You know, Danny. I like the way you deal with people.” [Laughs.] And then he walked away. Then, about two months later, he called me and said, “Danny, I’ve got this little movie, Forbidden Subjects. You want a little role in it?” I go, “Yeah, sure.” I’ll never forget that. We had a long talk. Charlie was cool. He was awesome.

thankin u Ned this is fantastic

he sounds like the least pretentious actor imaginable.

<3 Trejo

That interview was really good! Trejo is the man.

This guy asked me if I wanted to be in a movie, and I said, “What do I gotta do?” And he said, “Do you want to be an extra?” And I said, “An extra what?” And he said, “Can you act like a convict?” I thought it was the funniest thing I had ever heard. I’d been in every penitentiary in the state. I looked at him and I said, “Well, I’ll give it a shot.” He gave me a blue shirt, and I took off my shirt, and I have that big tattoo on my chest. He said “Leave your shirt off.” Then this other guy comes over and says, “Hey, you’re Danny Trejo. I saw you win the lightweight and welterweight title up in San Quentin.” And I go, “Yeah. You’re Eddie Bunker.” I had been in prison with him. And he was a writer. We started talking, and he asked, “Are you still boxing?” And I go, “Well, I still train.” And he said, “Do you want a job? We need someone to train one of the actors how to box.” And I said, “I got a job. They’re going to give me 15 bucks for acting like a convict. What’s this pay?” He said, “It pays $320 a day.” So I said, “How bad do you want this guy beat up? Shit, for 320 bucks—” And he goes, “No, you have to be really careful, this actor’s really high-strung. He’s already socked a couple of people.” I said, “For $320, man, give him a stick. I’ll fight Godzilla for 320 bucks.” I started training Eric Roberts how to box.

<3

also lol at him being hired as "armed-robbery consultant"!

Trejo, to me, is the kind of dude who you really, really cheer for. He made a ton of mistakes early in his life, but he has come around and tries to do good by everyone in his life now. My favorite thing about that interview is finding out that he still - after having done damn near 200 movies - he still does drug counseling for kids.

Dude is just great.

danny trejo is the fuckin' best

#BREAKING Actor Danny Trejo helps save baby trapped in overturned car in Sylmarhttps://t.co/WVikBdUB2r

— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) August 8, 2019

Both great of course. Anyway, enjoy

https://www.gq.com/story/wes-studi-tommy-orange-profile

When Wes was five, he was sent away to school in Muskogee, 30 miles southwest of Tahlequah, where he learned to speak English so fluently that when he returned home for the summer, he had to relearn Cherokee. “There I am in my grandmother's house,” he recalls, “and my grandmother looked at me after I said something in English and said, ‘Oh, no, we don't speak that. Not in my house.’ ”

Also I never knew he was married to Jack Albertson's daughter!

I've never seen The Last of the Mohicans, and I wouldn't watch Avatar if you paid me $100 an hour, but he's been great in a lot of stuff. And that story he tells about calling Michael Mann to say "I hear you're making a movie with Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and me" is amazing.