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Machete Movie Review
Sep 2nd
Mr. Knife Guy
It’s a widely-held (and entirely accurate) belief that 2007′s “Grindhouse” – the Quentin Tarantino-Robert Rodriguez ode to the ‘sploitation movies of their youth – was memorable not for the feature-length entries of its two directors, but for the faux-previews that were interspersed throughout. Each short vignette, shot in the style of a preview for a real “Grindhouse” film, touted a movie that didn’t really exist. I say “didn’t” because now one of them does. The preview for “Machete” was helmed by Mr. Rodriguez himself and featured brief glimpses of a story about a Mexican vigilante played by Danny Trejo as the titular knife-wielding anti-hero. You can imagine the tequila-soaked idea-session that spawned the idea. It’s really a no-brainer. And Mr. Rodriguez is just the man to make it happen.
Mr. Trejo, a burly character actor with a face like a relief-map, is forever playing the “heavy”. He’s the guy you see in a movie and say, “oh, it’s that guy”. But now Mr. Trejo is “second banana” no longer. In “Machete” he’s put front-and-center, in an ass-kicking, tough-guy leading role that was tailored specifically for him. Mr. Trejo owes Mr. Rodriguez big time.
Machete, the character, is nothing new. He’s a killing machine out for justice after his wife and daughter are brutally murdered. It’s been done before. But Mr. Rodriguez does it with the type of campy glee that the hacks behind “Piranha 3D” could only dream of achieving. Plus, he wraps it all in a fairly clever plot involving drug lords, political intrigue, and a border-fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Yes, Mr. Rodriguez aims to give illegal immigrants their hero. And whatever you think of his sense of humor or politics, you can’t deny his Hollywood clout. Among his cast are: Cheech Marin as a gun-toting priest, Jessica Alba as a immigration officer, Steven Seagal (!) as a drug lord named Torrez, and Robert De Niro (double !) as a Senator. And that’s to say nothing of Jeff Fahey, Don Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez and Lindsey Lohan (who acquits herself nicely – in the movie, at least).
The whole cast is in on the joke (yes, even Mr. Seagal) and they all manage to hit the right balance of sneer and wink. And Mr. Rodriguez – working from a script that he co-wrote with his cousin Álvaro Rodriguez and co-directed with Ethan Maniquis – gives his cast and his audience exactly what they want. Witness the shoot-out in a church to the tune of “Ave Maria”, or the parade of hydraulically tricked-out cars riding to the final showdown, or any number of mini-skirted, gun-toting nurses/nuns/female cops. Yes, Mr. Rodriguez knows his audience; he’s one of them.
In the end, it all starts to fizzle under the weight of its many characters, subplots, and shoot-outs. But along the way, “Machete” is good for a laugh, and it finally delivers on the promise of 2007′s “Grindhouse”. But more than anything else, it’s one of the few movies (Grindhouse or otherwise) that actually delivers on its preview.
Goofy ‘Machete’ teems with blood, gore and illegal immigrants
Sep 2nd
In “Machete,” blades flash and body parts are sliced. Heads roll, along with hands, torsos, legs and other limbs.
Robert De Niro drawls, wears a cowboy hat and guns down illegal immigrants with a hunting rifle.
Steven Seagal is a Mexican drug lord with samurai sword skills.
Jessica Alba showers. Lindsay Lohan skinny-dips. Cheech Marin wears a clerical collar as a priest with an ear for profanity.
And Danny Trejo, whose 10-miles-of-bad-road face and tattooed body have made him one of the screen’s most recognizable bad guys, plays the hero, a lawman named Machete.
The Robert Rodriguez movie that began life as a howled-for trailer-within-the-movie in the 2007 exploitation spoof “Grindhouse” is a cutting-edge send-up of ’70s B-flicks. It’s a Latino version of a blaxploitation film from the “Super Fly” school, with bloody action, titillating nudity and a catchphrase-riddled script.
And like the ’70s movies it borrows from, there’s a blast of tongue-in-cheek politics built around a they-messed-with- the-wrong-Mexican message. This likely won’t play well in Arizona.
We meet Machete as he crashes in on drug dealers south of the border, getting his partner, wife and child killed in the process. The bad guy, Torrez (Seagal), has too much power, too much reach. Machete barely escapes with his life.
Years later, he’s in Texas, struggling to survive as an illegal immigrant despite the help of the Network, an underground railroad for illegals run by Luz (Michelle Rodriguez) out of her taco truck. They’re all on the lookout for the Latina immigration cop (Jessica Alba) who is quick to deport her “brothers and sisters.”
A well-heeled politico named Booth (Jeff Fahey) hires Machete to assassinate an immigrant-bashing state senator (De Niro). Soon the cops, immigration and Booth’s henchman (led by Shea Whigham) are after the migrant worker they don’t realize is a slicing-and-shooting killing machine.
“I don’t know how you know what you know, but I’m glad I know you,” Luz purrs.
Our hero is on the run from a vast conspiracy that wants tougher immigration laws, higher fences and vigilantes (Don Johnson) who have declared open season on Mexicans.
Trejo, now well into his 60s, is only so-so in his first leading role and never gets really comfortable with being center stage. Rodriguez (he takes only a codirecting credit) surrounds him with actors in his thrall — which helps. Fahey, Seagal, De Niro and Johnson take things way over the top. The ladies — Alba, Michelle Rodriguez and even Lindsay Lohan — all melt in his presence.
In the end, the movie is a gory goof. Veteran horror movie makeup guy and actor Tom Savini turns up as a hit man. A John Woo-style shootout and torture scene takes place in a church. Lohan dons a nun’s habit.
Silliness like that makes it hard to take the movie’s pro-immigration message seriously. But if it makes people think twice about “messing with the wrong Mexican,” the “Machete” cast and crew will probably consider it a win.
Robert Rodriguez “Machete” Plays Tough Themes For Laughs
Sep 1st
A tale of illegal Mexican immigrants, corrupt U.S. politicians, nasty drug lords and vigilantes turns pulp movie in Robert Rodriguez’s “Machete,” which had the audience laughing out loud at the Venice festival.
The unlikely action hero of the blood-filled film is a long-haired, tattooed and aging former Mexican cop, nicknamed Machete after his favorite weapon — which he uses time and again to get revenge against the killers of his family.
Set on the barren border between Texas and Mexico, Machete has an eclectic cast including Robert De Niro as an anti-immigrant U.S. senator, Jessica Alba as a law enforcement agent, veteran action film actor Steven Seagal, “Miami Vice” star Don Johnson and Lindsay Lohan.
Born and raised in Texas, Rodriguez said the idea for Machete came from a fake trailer that he inserted in his and Quentin Tarantino’s tribute to B-movies, “Grindhouse,” released in 2007.
“That trailer fed the audience’s appetite and for years after that people asked whether I would make Machete into a feature. They kept coming and asking for it,” Rodriguez said after a press screening of his film, which is being presented out of competition at the Venice festival.
Several of Rodriguez’s previous films, including “El Mariachi,” “Desperado” and “From Dusk Till Dawn” deal with Mexico, but he said this time he wanted to make a movie starring a Mexican action hero that could appeal to a wider audience.
“This is not just for Latinos, I wanted someone with a violent background, an incorruptible guy that would not take a step backwards, and I wanted to do something that people had not seen before” he said.
ALL ABOUT KNIVES
To play Machete, Rodriguez picked Danny Trejo, a veteran actor of Mexican descent with a criminal past who is cast here in his first starring role.
Trejo mused that his characters in previous films by Rodriguez always had something to do with sharp objects — in From Dusk Till Dawn he was Razor Charlie, and in Desperado he was called Navajas, which means knives.
“Now I just graduated as a bigger knife which is Machete,” he said.
Alba, who had already worked with Rodriguez in “Sin City,” called Machete “awesome and crazy” and said at first she never thought Rodriguez would get away with such an unorthodox script.
“I think it’s courageous because it talks about socially and politically relevant issues in a smart way. It has all the stigmas and the stereotypes against Latinos and mashes it all up and explodes it against the screen,” she said.
“You are laughing from the beginning to the end, we are talking about serious issues but in a very clever way.”
Rodriguez said he had thought about the immigration theme for the film some 15 years ago but acknowledged that “the current climate makes it feel more relevant. The timing is perfect.”
The film ends with a promise of more to come, “Machete Kills” and “Machete Kills Again.” Rodriguez said that is meant as a joke but added he already had enough material for at least another film.
“If people now see this and come to ask for more Machete movies, we will have to make it a reality,” he said.
(Editing by Paul Casciato)
Robert Rodriguez unleashes edgy ‘Machete’
Sep 1st
One of the deciding moments in the making of the neo-exploitation, ultra-violent-comedy thriller “Machete” came when star-to-be Danny Trejo was doing an autograph signing in England. “These guys came up and they had pictures of ’Machete’ tattooed on their backs,” Trejo said. “Talk about responsibility.”
“He took pictures and e-mailed them to me,” laughed director Robert Rodriguez. “I said, ’That’s insane.’ Danny said, ’We’ve got to make the movie now.”
Up until then, “Machete” — which opens Friday and co-stars Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan, Robert De Niro, Don Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Jeff Fahey, Cheech Marin and Steven Seagal — was just a counterfeit trailer tacked onto another exploitation movie, “Grindhouse” (2007), the Rodriguez-Quentin Tarantino homage to trashy ’70s drive-in movies. In between the two “features” that made up “Grindhouse” — “Death Proof” and “Planet Terror” — were trailers for equally cheesy-albeit-imaginary features, including “Werewolf Women of the SS,” ”Hobo With a Shotgun” and “Machete,” the story of a Mexican federale who becomes embroiled in the cross-border drug trade.
Except “Machete,” for which Ethan Maniquis is credited as co-director, wasn’t entirely a pipe dream.
“Robert Rodriguez told me about ’Machete’ when we were doing ’Desperado’ 15 years ago,” said Trejo, referring to the Salma Hayek-Antonio Banderas film. “And it was funny, no one knew who Antonio Banderas was in Mexico — he was from Spain and he talked funny. So when I showed up on the set all the people on the set gravitated toward me because they’d seen me in 80 movies. That’s when Robert came up and said, ’I have this idea for this movie. It’s called ’Machete,’ kind of in the Clint Eastwood-Charles Bronson genre.”
Which it is, except with a level of cartoon violence that’s only palatable because it’s funny. (Rodriguez said that when they showed their soon-to-be-infamous scene involving a bad guy’s large intestine at July’s Comic-Con in San Diego, “It was like a rock concert. People were screaming.”) But Machete is also a hero, one who finds himself at the center of a criminal/political conspiracy involving an immigrant-baiting Texas state senator (De Niro), his malevolent aide (Fahey), the aide’s licentious daughter (Lohan), a border vigilante (Johnson), a taco-flipping insurrectionist (Michelle Rodriguez), an Immigration agent (Alba), and Machete’s brother, a radical priest (Marin). The timing of the film, in terms of current events, couldn’t be more on-the-money.
“It’s amazing how sometimes the stars align for a project and make it feel really timely,” said director Rodriguez. “Because in the exploitation days, that’s what they would have done, move really quickly with a low-budget production and done the whole ’ripped from today’s headlines’ thing. This happened in reverse: We shot ’Machete’ over a year ago, the first trailer was five years ago and the script was 15 years ago.”
For Trejo, his first starring role came with some perks. “I love to work with women who God worked overtime on,” he said of his three female co-stars. “But they weren’t Sally-come-lately’s — they were strong ladies. Even Lindsay, the nun with a gun.”
Lohan, who’s presence in the film will bring it a little extra notoriety, does in fact use a nun’s habit and some automatic weaponry. (Her character’s nude scene makes pretty obvious use of a body double). In terms of screen time, though, she takes a backseat to Alba and Michelle Rodriguez.
“He called me up,” Michelle Rodriguez said of her director, “and said, ’I have this project, it’s insane but I think you might be good for it” and I said, ’That’s awesome. As long as I don’t have to rip my clothes off and die at the end, I’m a happy camper.” He said “We’ll see about that.”
One of the things that attracted Michelle Rodriguez and, presumably, the rest of a very-high-profile cast to a deliberately low-rent movie, was the director’s irreverent attitude, something that’s been at the heart of everything from “El Mariachi” to the “Spy Kids” franchise. “There’s not a lot of people who do what he does,” she said. “I just think when you play that joker card, you can get away with murder.” The ’joker card,’ she said, is about making films that are “too crazy to be taken seriously in any way, shape or form.” And thus being able to say whatever you want without getting in trouble.
“Machete” is brewing with trouble, political and otherwise. But Michelle Rodriguez said she had other motives for getting involved with “Machete.” ”Robert has an innate ability to make everybody in his movies look sexy. Even the 60-year-old (he’s 66) Danny Trejo. There are moments in the movie where he actually looks great!” She laughs. “Robert makes everything look pretty.”
A LATINO SUPERHERO
Danny Trejo, the star of “Machete,” has more film and video credits than almost anyone in Hollywood — partly because he’ll apparently do anything for anybody. “I just did a film called ’Blacktino,’” he said from Los Angeles. “They gave me $100. But I like to do as many student films and first-time directors as I can.”
Still, the actor with the indelible face has never played the lead, not until “Machete,” the title character of which is arguably the first Latino superhero. “It feels pretty cool,” he says, “because we haven’t really had one. And I don’t have to wear tights. And I get to kill Steven Seagal.”
He has played a Machete before — namely, the kindly uncle in the “Spy Kids” series directed by his second cousin, Robert Rodriguez. “I have heard, ’Look Mom, its Uncle Machete’ in 40 different languages all over the world,” Trejo said. “And the funny part is, I always know which parents monitor what their kids are watching, because when the kids go crazy and the parents don’t know who I am, I say, “Aha, you just let them sit in front of the TV and watch whatever they want …”
‘Machete’ was 15 years in the making
Aug 31st
Danny Trejo, the craggy-faced, tough-guy character actor who has appeared in almost 200 movies and TV shows, was in the middle of an autograph session in London in 2007 with director Robert Rodriguez to promote the release of “Grindhouse” when he encountered an unusually devoted fan.
“This guy came up to me and lifted his shirt, and he had a huge tattoo of (me as) Machete on his back,” recalls Trejo, who usually plays villains in movie who get blown away by the hero. “He asked me to autograph it and then said he was going to have my signature permanently tattooed. That’s when I turned to Robert and said ‘You better make this movie, and you better make it good.’”
At that time, “Machete” – the story of a Mexican Federale who fights corruption and drug dealers with the eponymous blade – wasn’t a real film. Rodriguez had directed a fake trailer for the movie that was shown during the three-hour “Grindhouse,” an epic homage to 1970s exploitation pictures.
“Grindhouse” was a disappointment at the box office, grossing $25 million worldwide. But the “Machete” clip – replete with preposterous action, gratuitous nudity, tongue-in-cheek acting and a groovy vibe – made such an impression on audiences that they began clamoring for a real movie to match what the trailer promised.
On Friday, their wish will be granted when the feature-length “Machete” opens in theaters. The movie is a cheerfully gory, hyper-violent and grandly funny satire in which the taciturn hero must avenge the bloody murder of his family by a drug kingpin (Steven Seagal) and bring down a corrupt senator (Robert De Niro) who wants to build an electrified fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Instead of a mere over-the-top spoof, though, “Machete” is also a “real” movie, with characters who aren’t necessarily aware of the film’s comedic undertone, such as Jessica Alba’s U.S. immigration agent or Michelle Rodriguez as a lunch-truck vendor with a secret side job. The movie deftly straddles the line between exploitation and straightforward storytelling, because Rodriguez had originally conceived of the project 15 years ago, long before the idea for “Grindhouse” existed.
“We were shooting ‘Desperado’ in Acuna, Mexico, with Antonio Banderas, but nobody knew who he was there,” the director says during a recent promotional visit to Miami. “Instead, people kept coming up to Danny and taking pictures with him. They thought he was the star of the movie. That’s when I told him ‘I have the perfect role for you, a starring role: the first Latino-accented action hero.’”
Over the next few years, Rodriguez continued to cast Trejo in supporting roles, his characters always named after sharp objects: He plays Navajas (blades) in “Desperado,” Razor Charlie in “From Dusk Til Dawn” and Cuchillo (knife) in this summer’s “Predators,” which Rodriguez produced. In “Spy Kids,” Trejo’s character was even named “Machete.”
By the time the cameras rolled on “Machete,” he and Rodriguez had worked together so often they had developed a shorthand language that made life on the set a breeze.
“I know what Robert wants, and he knows what I want,” Trejo says. “He has a ‘Damn it, you better do it’ look!’ that I can recognize right away. Sometimes I’ll try a certain approach in a scene, and he’ll say ‘Stop acting! It’s a movie! Don’t act!’”
“Sometimes I will ask Danny to imitate me imitating him, because I know him better than he does,” Rodriguez says. “We were at Comic-Con one time, and he kept trying to reach me on my cellphone. I finally answered and said, ‘Stop calling me, man! Just send me a text message!’ And Danny said ‘Machete don’t text.’ So when we were making the movie, I incorporated that line into the script and told him ‘Just say it exactly the way you said it to me five years ago.’”
Much as with “Sin City,” in which he rounded up an all-star cast on the basis of a scene he had shot that conveyed what the finished film would look and feel like, Rodriguez used the fake “Machete” trailer to lure the likes of De Niro, Seagal, Don Johnson (as a vicious border patrol agent) and Lindsay Lohan.
“By being able to show them the trailer along with the script, they knew the tone and the kind of movie it was going to be, so it was easier to get them to sign on,” he says. “I love ensemble casts, and you always start at the top of your dream list and work your way down until someone says yes. But ‘Machete’ was easy, because a lot of these actors had worked with Danny before and wanted to support him. Robert De Niro put a bullet in Danny’s head in ‘Heat.’ Steven Seagal had killed him a couple of times.”
The 15-year gestation period of “Machete” has paid off in an unexpected way. The film’s pointed satire of U.S. immigration policy suddenly seems insanely timely – and not all that far-fetched – after the controversial new Arizona law that allows police officers to question people they suspect of having crossed the border illegally.
“Whenever we screen the movie, everybody looks at each other and thinks ‘This (stuff) is real!’” Rodriguez says. “We’ve been thinking about this movie and putting it together for so long, it’s really freaky for it to come out now. The timing feels so right. It’s the only project I’ve ever had that took on a life of its own. This thing just willed itself into existence.”
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Machete’ was 15 years in the making
Aug 31st
Danny Trejo, the craggy-faced, tough-guy character actor who has appeared in almost 200 movies and TV shows, was in the middle of an autograph session in London in 2007 with director Robert Rodriguez to promote the release of “Grindhouse” when he encountered an unusually devoted fan.
“This guy came up to me and lifted his shirt, and he had a huge tattoo of (me as) Machete on his back,” recalls Trejo, who usually plays villains in movie who get blown away by the hero. “He asked me to autograph it and then said he was going to have my signature permanently tattooed. That’s when I turned to Robert and said ‘You better make this movie, and you better make it good.’”
At that time, “Machete” – the story of a Mexican Federale who fights corruption and drug dealers with the eponymous blade – wasn’t a real film. Rodriguez had directed a fake trailer for the movie that was shown during the three-hour “Grindhouse,” an epic homage to 1970s exploitation pictures.
“Grindhouse” was a disappointment at the box office, grossing $25 million worldwide. But the “Machete” clip – replete with preposterous action, gratuitous nudity, tongue-in-cheek acting and a groovy vibe – made such an impression on audiences that they began clamoring for a real movie to match what the trailer promised.
On Friday, their wish will be granted when the feature-length “Machete” opens in theaters. The movie is a cheerfully gory, hyper-violent and grandly funny satire in which the taciturn hero must avenge the bloody murder of his family by a drug kingpin (Steven Seagal) and bring down a corrupt senator (Robert De Niro) who wants to build an electrified fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Instead of a mere over-the-top spoof, though, “Machete” is also a “real” movie, with characters who aren’t necessarily aware of the film’s comedic undertone, such as Jessica Alba’s U.S. immigration agent or Michelle Rodriguez as a lunch-truck vendor with a secret side job. The movie deftly straddles the line between exploitation and straightforward storytelling, because Rodriguez had originally conceived of the project 15 years ago, long before the idea for “Grindhouse” existed.
“We were shooting ‘Desperado’ in Acuna, Mexico, with Antonio Banderas, but nobody knew who he was there,” the director says during a recent promotional visit to Miami. “Instead, people kept coming up to Danny and taking pictures with him. They thought he was the star of the movie. That’s when I told him ‘I have the perfect role for you, a starring role: the first Latino-accented action hero.’”
Over the next few years, Rodriguez continued to cast Trejo in supporting roles, his characters always named after sharp objects: He plays Navajas (blades) in “Desperado,” Razor Charlie in “From Dusk Til Dawn” and Cuchillo (knife) in this summer’s “Predators,” which Rodriguez produced. In “Spy Kids,” Trejo’s character was even named “Machete.”
By the time the cameras rolled on “Machete,” he and Rodriguez had worked together so often they had developed a shorthand language that made life on the set a breeze.
“I know what Robert wants, and he knows what I want,” Trejo says. “He has a ‘Damn it, you better do it’ look!’ that I can recognize right away. Sometimes I’ll try a certain approach in a scene, and he’ll say ‘Stop acting! It’s a movie! Don’t act!’”
“Sometimes I will ask Danny to imitate me imitating him, because I know him better than he does,” Rodriguez says. “We were at Comic-Con one time, and he kept trying to reach me on my cellphone. I finally answered and said, ‘Stop calling me, man! Just send me a text message!’ And Danny said ‘Machete don’t text.’ So when we were making the movie, I incorporated that line into the script and told him ‘Just say it exactly the way you said it to me five years ago.’”
Much as with “Sin City,” in which he rounded up an all-star cast on the basis of a scene he had shot that conveyed what the finished film would look and feel like, Rodriguez used the fake “Machete” trailer to lure the likes of De Niro, Seagal, Don Johnson (as a vicious border patrol agent) and Lindsay Lohan.
“By being able to show them the trailer along with the script, they knew the tone and the kind of movie it was going to be, so it was easier to get them to sign on,” he says. “I love ensemble casts, and you always start at the top of your dream list and work your way down until someone says yes. But ‘Machete’ was easy, because a lot of these actors had worked with Danny before and wanted to support him. Robert De Niro put a bullet in Danny’s head in ‘Heat.’ Steven Seagal had killed him a couple of times.”
The 15-year gestation period of “Machete” has paid off in an unexpected way. The film’s pointed satire of U.S. immigration policy suddenly seems insanely timely – and not all that far-fetched – after the controversial new Arizona law that allows police officers to question people they suspect of having crossed the border illegally.
“Whenever we screen the movie, everybody looks at each other and thinks ‘This (stuff) is real!’” Rodriguez says. “We’ve been thinking about this movie and putting it together for so long, it’s really freaky for it to come out now. The timing feels so right. It’s the only project I’ve ever had that took on a life of its own. This thing just willed itself into existence.”
‘Machete’s’ Danny Trejo will kill again
Aug 29th
Fans of Danny Trejo get their full dose of the Latino baddie in this weekend’s “Machete.” We’ll have more later in the week from the character actor, who has had smaller parts in dozens of movies but is finally getting his close-up, playing a part he and Robert Rodriguez describe as the “first Latino superhero.”
In the meantime,one interesting tidbit to emerge from our conversation with Trejo: The actor will reunite with “Machete” costar Michelle Rodriguez in a new indie called “Skinny Dip.”
The movie is a revenge picture involving a young woman who kills a policeman, and Trejo is keeping it in the family: His son Gilbert will produce and likely co-direct. In case there wasn’t enough of the ethnic pride/campiness that Trejo is known for in his work, the other director is a young filmmaker with the perfect name of Frankie Latina.
(No word yet, incidentally, on sequel plans for “Machete,” though it’s likely Rodriguez, who actually wrote the film back in the early ’90s, has some ideas. Certainly, the movie, which got a jolt in development when a fake trailer for it ran in the 2007 movie “Grindhouse,” plays on our sequel expectations, with a credit sequence that touts fictitious followups “Machete Kills” and “Machete Kills Again.”)
The 22-year-old Gilbert Trejo grew up on movie sets and around movie stars — Trejo the Elder likes to recall the time his son met Robert De Niro and did a “You talkin’ to me” impression (Gilbert was 9). The younger Trejo also occupies one of the low-riders in the climactic scene of “Machete” (firing missiles from a rooftop turret, of course).
Danny Trejo quips that he hopes his son makes it as a filmmaker “so he can give me a job.” With the mustachioed one currently booking 10 to 13 gigs per year, we suspect getting a job is no real problem.
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Photo: Danny Trejo in “Machete.” Credit: 20th Century Fox
