Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption and Hollywood

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Really glad he choose to do blood in blood out. If you haven't seen it yet its probably one of the best prison movies out there even after all this time I highly recommend it and this book. Trejo began attending 12-step programs while still serving time and eventually became sober and later worked a a drug counselor. This led to a call in 1985 to the set of the film “Runaway Train” to counsel one of the actors.

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. SD007595 CROMMIE MAEVE VS TREJO DANNY". Trellis. Archived from the original on November 15, 2022 . Retrieved August 13, 2021.

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Couch, A. (2020) "Danny Trejo Recalls How He Got His Hollywood Break", The Hollywood Reporter, June 29. Retrieved August 6, 2021.

About The Ex-Girlfriends". The Ex-Girlfriends. Archived from the original on November 14, 2012 . Retrieved December 14, 2012. Trejo's book pulls no punches when it comes to his past. He was twelve years old when he first took heroin, and he spent too much of his youth in prison for an endless variety of felonies. Eventually, he maintained his sobriety and became a drug counselor more than a decade before he took his first Hollywood acting gig. As of this writing, Trejo has been clean and sober for 52 years, and he's helped countless others achieve sobriety and improve their lives. Trejo, Danny and Logue, Donal. (2021) Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood. United Kingdom: John Blake Publishing. ISBN 9781789465426.

Avila, Pamela (July 8, 2021). "Danny Trejo on his new memoir, toxic masculinity and how his daughter 'helped me change my life' ". USA Today. Archived from the original on July 20, 2021 . Retrieved July 21, 2021. Donal Logue: Yeah. How much love must it take for a parent to do that? People don't see it as the other side of... You know, we share an Earth together. Believe me, man, I did living in the United States. In 2014, Trejo produced his first film, titled Ambition, and produced his second film, the action film Bad Asses. What a life! Or should I say many lives, because if it is said that a cat has nine lives, Trejo is mighty close to that cat. I knew who he was, having five sons, the movies he was in appealed to them more than I. Violent movies of which I'm not a fan. But, what made me want to read his story, was a recent episode of Bear Grylls in which Trejo participated. The determination of this 77 year old man to complete the mission with Bear, which was not easy, was impressive. They talked during periodic rests about Trejos life and my interest was piqued.

Donal Logue: And they don't really make movies about that, which is unfortunate, sometimes. The kid who comes up from the barrio or the hood or whatever, and he goes, "I went to college and I'm a CPA now." His road to redemption, however, wasn't linear.In and out of prison for over a decade, three things were constant in Trejo's life:his UncleGilbert (who, the actorwrites, introduced him to a life of crime at a young age), the drugs and the women. I think from this book people are going to find out that I’m just a regular guy that had a lot of secrets and woke up one day in the movies,” he said. Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood discussion It's an incredible trajectory you have. I have the book. I haven't finished it yet, but I've been reading it, and it's incredible. I know that you two bonded as actors and in recovery, but what made you, Danny, trust Donal to help tell your story?Donal Logue: It's weird because it talks about Hollywood. We look at it through this light, where, man, it's such a weird thing. We do glamorize. Our world glamorizes bad guys and anti-heroes. But that was...

Danny Trejo". IMDb. Archived from the original on September 13, 2011 . Retrieved November 19, 2019. I’ve called a few people to the side and told them, 'Look, holmes, you don’t disrespect me because you don’t want to know what happens," Trejo says."And people understand, they’re like, 'Oh wait, this is a real person. This isn’t a movie star.' I hate being called a movie star." Far Cry 6 unveils free post-launch content including Danny Trejo, Rambo and Stranger Things". VideoGamer.com. September 10, 2021. Archived from the original on October 9, 2021 . Retrieved October 9, 2021. In 2023, Trejo was revealed as a celebrity star in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth depicting a Hawaiian mob boss. [77] Music videos [ edit ]In 2011, he appeared in the action film Recoil as Drayke Selgado, with WWE wrestler and actor Steve Austin and played the role of the Ripper in Cross. Big-Screen Badass Danny Trejo Wants to Sell You a Doughnut". August 4, 2017. Archived from the original on October 7, 2018 . Retrieved October 6, 2018. Watch Slayer and Danny Trejo Film Gory Video at L.A. Prison". Rolling Stone. September 3, 2015. Archived from the original on January 9, 2016 . Retrieved September 8, 2016. In July 1969, Trejo was released from custody for the final time and returned to Pacoima, Los Angeles, having served five years of a 10-year prison sentence. [30] [6] That same year, he appeared in season six of Running Wild with Bear Grylls on the episode "Danny Trejo in the Moab Desert" [68] and portrayed one of the many forms of Mr. World in the first two episodes of the third and final season of American Gods. [69] In 2021, Trejo portrayed the Ghost of Huet in the Disney+ puppet comedy Halloween special Muppets Haunted Mansion. [ citation needed]