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John Leguizamo's earnings from the 'Ice Age' franchise paid for two new homes. The actor voiced Sid the ground sloth in the 2002 movie and its four sequels and he's now admitted he made millions from the films which allowed him to buy a coveted brownstone property in New York as well as a beachfront mansion in the Hamptons. He told New York Post column PageSix: "It got me a brownstone. It got me two extra homes, it got me a beachfront house in the Hamptons, it got me two pools!" John explained he was paid to scale for the first film - which gave him a basic wage - but the cast ended up asking ...
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John Leguizamo has branded Patrick Swayze "insecure" and "neurotic" and admitted the late actor was "difficult" to work with. The pair starred as drag queens in 1995 movie 'To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar' and Leguizamo has admitted he can't understand Swayze's reputation as an "angel" because they struggled to get along. During an appearance on SiriusXM's 'Andy Cohen Live', the host said: "All I hear about Patrick Swayze was just what an absolute angel he was" and Leguizamo replied: "Hmm, that’s different than what I experienced ... Rest in peace, I love him. He was just neur...
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More than 3,600 SAG-AFTRA members have signed an open letter declaring they would rather stay on strike than “cave” to a bad deal. The hardline group, which calls itself Members in Solidarity, includes actors Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jon Hamm, Maya Hawke, Marisa Tomei, John Leguizamo and Bryan Cranston, among many other famous names. Their letter expresses support for the SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee and says that it speaks for the majority of the guild who “are still standing in solidarity, ready to strike as long as it takes and to endure whatever we must in order to win a deal that is worthy...
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Michael Imperioli met a witch to get the film 'Summer of Sam' made. 'The Sopranos' star was living at the notoriously haunted Chelsea Hotel in New York City and explained how he took supernatural steps to get the 1999 crime thriller – which he co-wrote with director Spike Lee and Victor Colicchio – through development. Speaking in the documentary 'Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel', Michael said: "I had just begun writing 'Summer of Sam' with Victor Colicchio – we wrote that script together. "I really wanted to get it made. So I met somebody who was living here who was a witch, who said he could hel...
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John Leguizamo will not be watching 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie'. The 62-year-old actor played Luigi in the panned 1993 live-action film 'Super Mario Bros.' and revealed that he has no plans to see the new animated flick due to a lack of "inclusion" in the casting. Chris Pratt and Charlie Day star as Mario and Luigi respectively but the decision not to put Latin actors in the roles has been criticised by Leguizamo. Asked if he plans to see the movie, the Colombian-born actor told TMZ: "Hell no! No I will not (be watching). They could've included a Latin character. "Like I was groundbreaking a...
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'Alina of Cuba' producer John Martinez O’Felan hit back at John Leguizamo over his criticism of James Franco’s casting as Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro. After James' casting was announced, John, 62, fumed on Instagram: "How is this still going on? How is Hollywood excluding us but stealing our narratives as well? "No more appropriation Hollywood and streamers! Boycott! This F’d up! Plus seriously difficult story to tell without aggrandizement which would b wrong! “I don’t got a prob with Franco but he ain’t Latino!” However, producer John Martinez hit back, calling Leguizamo “culturally une...
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John Leguizamo is calling for “no more appropriation” after James Franco was cast as Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro in an upcoming film. He hit out after it was revealed earlier this week the 44-year-old Californian will be playing Castro in indie project ‘Alina of Cuba’. Colombian-born John, 62, vented on his Instagram on Friday (06.08.22): “How is this still going on? How is Hollywood excluding us but stealing our narratives as well?'? His post quickly racked up almost 10,000 likes. It went on: “No more appropriation Hollywood and streamers! Boycott! This F’d up! Plus seriously difficult s...
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Ariana DeBose believes Hollywood’s attempts at increasing diversity has not “achieved” everything it should. The ‘West Side Story’ star - who played Anita in the Steven Spielberg 2021 remake - thinks there is “still massive amounts of work to do” despite the work already done in the movie and TV industry to improve representation, particularly of the Afro-Latinx community. Speaking after being nominated for the 2022 EE BAFTA Rising Star Award, the 30-year-old actress exclusively BANG Showbiz: I applaud forward motion but do not claim to feel like we’ve achieved all that we can achieve. There’s...
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'Encanto' co-writer Jared Bush has revealed the movie had a scrapped post-credits scene. Bush - who also co-directed the Disney animated favourite, which starred the likes of Stephanie Beatriz and John Leguizamo - admitted the team had a scene ready to go which showed capybara Chispi get water poured on his head from the magical house Casita after trying to urinate on one of the walls. The writer shared a clip of the funny moment on Twitter and explained they decided not to include it because of the "emotion and joy" of the film's ending. He wrote: "We considered an after credit joke to end th...
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John Leguizamo used to stay out of the sun to stay "light-skinned" for acting roles. The 57-year-old actor - who played Bruno in Disney's animated blockbuster 'Encanto' and has appeared in the likes of 'John Wick', 'Romeo + Juliet' and 'ER' over the years - has opened up about the challenges of breaking into Hollywood as a Latino performer. The Colombian-born star told the Academy Awards' Seen series: "I definitely would not go in the sun for years. It was a conscious thing because I could work. "And all the Latinos that made it so far, a lot of them were all light-skinned. What happened to al...
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