Danny Trejo despises method actors

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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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00:00I

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.

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