Curious to see what the consensus opinion on here is.

He's been in a ton of movies.

Unfortunately, the role he plays is always the same.

A lot of work he does suffers from bad writing. He does a good job, but his best work was back in late 90s before he got famous.

C+

Doesn't he always play a variation of the same character? Not sure I would call that acting. But he seems like a nice guy and happy he's found a niche.

He's a fine looking man!

Best movie is Heat

I read that somewhere that he writes into his contracts that his character is to always die in a bad way. That he doesn't want to glorify the thug life that he always gets cast in. He wants to get the point across that it is a dead end. If true, then that earns my respect.

Just given his background on how good of a man he is now, he gets an A from me.

aTmAg said:

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I read that somewhere that he writes into his contracts that his character is to always die in a bad way. That he doesn't want to glorify the thug life that he always gets cast in. He wants to get the point across that it is a dead end. If true, then that earns my respect.

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A bad character has to die.
Machete never dies.
Up next: Machete Kills in Space!

This:



And then this:



Academy Award winning stuff! Not sure why the snub.

I don't rate him as an actor. He's just always Danny Trejo when the script calls for Danny Trejo.

He's exactly who he is and great at it.

always comes up a little bit short

I just saw the Monk episode with him in it.

It's shocking he's never played the love interest in a romcom.

Not unlike many, many, others in the entertainment industry, he's very smart.

He figured out how to make a great living, doing fun stuff, and stay in his lane.

I applaud the F out of the man.

He was great as Enrique in King of the Hill, though - oddly enough - he did not voice Octavio.

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

His wiki is nuts if you have never read it. Dude was knocking on the door of the death penalty when he completely flipped his life around, almost by accident. He wasn't even trying to become an actor when he started scoring parts as extras, he was trying to help get people off drugs.

He seems like a cool dude to hang out with, honestly. Not an amazing actor, but I don't think he tries to. I think he just has fun playing the kind of characters only someone like him could play.

He's an example of how an interesting or unique individual can be used in a movie regardless of acting chops. Like Jaws in James Bond.

Not much of an actor. More like a set piece with lines.

When I discovered randomly that he does the voice of Vasquez in Big City Greens I found just one more reason to love on this dude

I think he won a Cambodian Oscar for dramatically portraying "Severed Head Riding on Turtle."

I just realized I didn't watch "Harold and Kumar Christmas" this year

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Trejo described 1997's Con Air as a "macho fest from the start" and the cast were often pulling pranks on one another. He remembers Nicolas Cage as being "cool as hell" and John Cusack as a "kickboxing badass". Trejo met many of his longtime friends on set, including: John Malkovich, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, and Dave Chappelle.

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that sounds like it was a hell of a lot of fun

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Trejo described 1997's Con Air as a "macho fest from the start" and the cast were often pulling pranks on one another. He remembers Nicolas Cage as being "cool as hell" and John Cusack as a "kickboxing badass". Trejo met many of his longtime friends on set, including: John Malkovich, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, and Dave Chappelle.

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that sounds like it was a hell of a lot of fun

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You know, I never thought about it. But yeah, I bet putting that cast together was an absolute hoot. Thinking "hold my beer" was a daily thing.

He was born to play the niche character he is always cast as. He was never gonna be a leading man but damn he is perfect for the roles he is in and they are usually pretty impactful supporting roles, in my opinion. Always love his characters.

Times are changing man, women can do stuff now

What? I'm sorry, I don't speak Spanish

Send Machete to Space@elonmusk pic.twitter.com/RLx4hkDY70

— Danny Trejo (@officialDannyT) December 31, 2023

Space!

Documentary about his life was pretty good. Tells one story about his gang banger brother giving him a hand grenade.

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He was never gonna be a leading man

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He did have a swimming pool make out scene with some big TD'd blonde hookers in some movie, but I've somehow forgotten the name.

DustysLineup said:

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bam02 said:

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He was never gonna be a leading man

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He did have a swimming pool make out scene with some big TD'd blonde hookers in some movie, but I've somehow forgotten the name.

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"Machete"

In "Spy Kids", Uncle Machete was his "debut". Robert Rodriguez wrote the character and just expanded to its own franchise.

Lord have mercy!

Vatos Locos forever!

Proposition Joe said:

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Vatos Locos forever!

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I mean, I wanna know more about the guy who knocked down Trejo and his best friend in the course of 5 seconds.