“I love him,” Leguizamo prefaced his feedback, sooner than opening up about his revel in running with Swayze on ‘To Wong Foo.’
John Leguizamo is opening up about running with the overdue Patrick Swayze at the 1995 movie, To Wong Foo, Thank you for The whole lot! Julie Newmar.
All through an look on Thursday’s episode of SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Are living, the actor graphic his “difficult” dating with Swayze, sharing why he didn’t have a wholly delightful revel in starring along overdue actor at the street travel comedy, wherein they performed drag queens along Wesley Snipes.
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“AlI I hear about Patrick Swayze is just what an absolute angel he was,” Andy Cohen mentioned, later citing To Wong Fo, to which Leguizamo answered, “That’s different than what I experienced.”
“He was just, rest in peace. I love him,” Leguizamo mentioned of Swayze, who died of pancreatic most cancers in 2009. “He was just neurotic … I’m neurotic too, but I don’t know. He was just, it was difficult working with him.”
When Cohen requested if Swayze used to be a “perfectionist,” Leguizamo mentioned, “I don’t know. Just neurotic. I think maybe a tiny bit insecure.”
“Wesley [Snipes] and I … we vibed because, you know, we’re people of color, and you know, we got each other,” he persisted. “I’m also an improviser and he didn’t like that. He couldn’t keep up with it and it would make him mad and upset sometimes.”
“He’d be like, ‘Are you gonna say a line like that?’ I’d go, ‘You know me. I’m gonna do me. I’m gonna just keep making up lines,'” Leguizamo added. “He goes, ‘Well, can you just say the line the way it is?’ I go, ‘I can’t,’ and the director didn’t want me to.”
Next Cohen famous that it gave the impression that Leguizamo and Swayze “approached the work differently,” Leguizamo yes. “Way differently,” he mentioned. “I invented my role. I rewrote that role. I expanded that role because that role was nothing.”
Within the comedy, Leguizamo, Swayze, and Snipes, celebrity as drag queens who embark on a cross-country street travel from Unused York to Los Angeles.
Leguizamo shared that the movie used to be a “very important” film, to which Cohen yes, pronouncing To Wong Foo used to be “before its time.”
“It was very important because a lot of transgender kids, LGBTQ+ kids, come up to me who are now, I guess, a little older, but they said because of that [movie] and my character, they felt confident to come out to their parents,” Leguizamo recalled. “And I felt like, Wow … that’s what art’s supposed to do. Art’s supposed to give people courage. Art is supposed to teach people empathy. That’s what art — that’s what I got in the business for.”
The film is streaming now on Tubi.
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