Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption and Hollywood

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Danny Trejo". IMDb. Archived from the original on September 13, 2011 . Retrieved November 19, 2019. Danny's story will stay with me for a long time and I can't think of anyone who wouldn't get something out of this book and his story. Danny Trejo is one of Hollywood’s most recognizable, prolific, and beloved character actors. Famed for his ultra-baddie roles in series like AMC’s Breaking Bad, FX’s Sons of Anarchy, and director Robert Rodriguez’s global, billion-dollar Spy Kids and Machete film franchises, Danny is also a successful restauranteur. He owns seven locations of Trejo’s Tacos, Trejo’s Cantina, and Trejo’s Coffee & Donuts in the Los Angeles area, and is expanding his Trejo’s Tacos franchise nationwide. Visit DannyTrejo.com to learn more.

Throughout the 2000s Trejo appeared in productions including: XXX; Once Upon a Time in Mexico; Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy; The Devil's Rejects; Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror; Delta Farce; Grindhouse; Rob Zombie's Halloween; Urban Justice (alongside Steven Seagal); and Valley of Angels. He also made a number of television appearances, including: Monk, Desperate Housewives, Stargate: Atlantis, and Breaking Bad. Trejo also voiced the characters Enrique and Octavio on King of the Hill. His life is documented in the independent biographical film, Champion, featuring some of Trejo's close friends: Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Steve Buscemi, and Robert Rodriguez. [58] Trejo also shared his tumultuous journey from convict to film star with KTTV in Los Angeles, 2013, in a segment filmed in Trejo's home. [59] 2010s: Becoming a lead actor [ edit ] Trejo on the set of The Bill Collector, 2010 Strauss, Bob (September 11, 2003). "ROBERT RODRIGUEZ WEARS A HOST OF HATS, STAYS AWAY FROM TINSELTOWN AND EMBRACES DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY WITH GRITTY END TO 'MARIACHI' TRILOGY". Daily News (Los Angeles, CA). Archived from the original on June 29, 2019 . Retrieved August 30, 2010. Too many people in the San Fernando Valley knew me for all the wrong reasons," Danny Trejo writes of his hometown.

Trejo, Danny and Logue, Donal. (2021) Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood. United Kingdom: John Blake Publishing. ISBN 9781789465426. Discover the full, fascinating, and inspirational true story of Danny Trejo’s journey from crime, prison, addiction, and loss—it’s “enough to make you believe in the possibility of a Hollywood ending” ( The New York Times Book Review). For Trejo, 77, revisiting the dark chapters of his life was an emotional experience. “Those memories are very, very painful," Trejo told NBC News. "Thinking and talking about some of them brought tears to my eyes, but the purging of them and seeing them on paper was really redeeming.” I fight food hard, too. I get it. I think bagels and cream cheese at 3:00 in the morning with peanut butter on them or something, it's as strong as anything... I heard this person sharing about how they had this secretive thing, where after work, they'd go to the grocery and buy a bunch of Häagen-Dazs. Like, tons of it. And they were hurt. Their father had hurt them really badly and all this stuff. They'd go home and they were wallowing in that hurt, and they just couldn't stop, just eating spoonful after spoonful, gallon after gallon of Häagen-Dazs. And it made me cry, because it's not a p**** thing. It's a human thing. Right? That bulls*** thing... I will say this about certain heroin addicts or something. They were the ones pretending like they're the only ones who understand addiction because they did heroin. That's bulls***. The thing is, as it turns out, we're all p***ies. Because that's what makes us human. If we walk around talking like we're the baddest-assed dude in the world, and we've never been scared of anything, and no memory from our childhood has ever hurt us, that's a big lie. That's what bonds us as human beings. Danny talks about it so much, that's the thing that allows us communication with each other, because that's what we relate to in each other's stories. I can't relate to the prison stories. That is dramatic. That is different. But Danny understands that, as human beings, we all share this commonality of being hurt children or whatever it was. That's what sets us on this path for the rest of our lives, unless we recognize it and look at it and uncover it and realize, number one: we're not to blame for a lot of this stuff. And secondly, there's something we can do about it. But we can't necessarily do it alone, right Danny? Donal Logue: You know what I mean? You never know where people are at. Even if you're in a bad spot, help someone else out. It'll immediately make you feel better.Exclusive: Danny Trejo joins 'American Gods' season 3 with Julia Sweeney, rapper Wale". EW.com. Archived from the original on December 15, 2019 . Retrieved May 23, 2021. Trejo battled liver cancer in 2010. [109] In 2011, he moved to the San Fernando Valley to be closer to his mother after she sustained a knee injury; she died in 2013. [96] Prior to this, he lived in Venice, a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. [13] [110] In August 2019, he witnessed a car colliding with an SUV at an intersection and helped extract a five-year-old trapped in a child safety seat inside the overturned SUV. In reference to the incident, he was quoted saying: "Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else. Everything." [111] Trejo, who was born in Maywood in 1944, spent time in juvenile camps before eventually landing in Soledad and San Quentin state prisons. Loc, Tim (January 30, 2017). "Danny Trejo Is Setting Up Shop At The Former Donut Time Space In Hollywood". LAist. Archived from the original on June 21, 2017 . Retrieved May 5, 2017. Over time, Trejo became one of the world’s most recognizable character actors, in movies like “Desperado," “Heat” and “Blood In, Blood Out.” In the latter film, a crime drama, Trejo returned to San Quentin as an actor — and actually filmed scenes inside his old cell.