John Leguizamo
Appearances
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Yes, I'm so happy to hear that. We're about to do Ice Age 6.
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Yeah, because I did like 50 voices for the director, Chris Wedge, and he said, I just want you to do your voice. I go, I don't want to do my voice. I want to do a voice. I'm an actor. So I did, you know, Southern Boys for the Sloth because he's slow. Then I went a little more ghetto on it. Come on. What you want? What you want? And he goes, nah. So then I got Discovery Channel footage.
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And I saw that Sloth stored food in their cheek pouches. And it would ferment and they'd get drunk. And so I started eating a sandwich. And I put it in my cheek pouches, and I walked around the house waiting for it to ferment, and it didn't, but it happened. Then I got slushy, slushy in my mouth, and I called the doctor, Chris, guess who this is? And he was like, I have no idea.
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It's Sid the Sloth. I found myself, and that's how I did it.
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Yes, of course. I mean, when I was much younger, it was great, because people, you know, when the school would complain, they would call my house, and I would answer as my mom, and I'd go, oh, he, what? No, he's fantastic. Oh, you want to expel him? Well, expel it for me. And I would mess with them for hours, and they wouldn't be able to expel me. Really? They tried to expel me, yeah.
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No. No. Well, now she knows now, because she blabbered.
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Yeah, my mom's very judgmental. And I think I get it from her a little bit. We both watch PBS too much.
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And she does. She comes to every show and she sits front row. And then she comes afterwards. Oh, Joan, that was fantastic. But I didn't really like the punchline. It didn't really hit the way I thought it would hit. It didn't murder. And I was like, Mom, please stop criticizing. You're just my mom. Just be unconditionally loving for once.
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That's the only way to keep her away.
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It's sort of the sexual, all the sexual. Yes, I know, yes.
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Wait, no, I meant B, I meant B. Oh, he meant B, he meant B, Bill.
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I'm brilliant. I belong on PBS.
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Yes, an overnight success after 40 years.
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Yes, you know, it was based on Latino, Latin history from morons because I learned my son was being bullied and I wanted to give him, weaponize his knowledge and his history of his people. You know, I didn't know we finished building the railroads. I didn't realize we were the first fighters to create unions in the 1930s.
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And then, you know, we've been persecuted, but we've also contributed so much. We just reached a milestone last year. We contributed $3.2 trillion to the GDP yearly as a Latino culture.