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.It s definitely a return to an older, premethod styleof acting.It s more Greta Garbo than Marlon Brando.Baz has this Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends 161*idea that emotionally it makes things more real than your average realistic movie.You can see in all three films that Baz has a hyperactively fertileimagination.He has a million ideas.Yet it s wonderful how he letsyou be a part of the whole process; from the costumes to the setsto the scenery, you re involved.He just opens up everything to you.Even though he wasn t exactly mentoring me, I took him as inspira-tion for the kind of artist I wanted to be. We have a theatrical contract, he would say. Don t censor your-self.Don t edit.Let me be the safety net.Look at Mister Camera.Bemore theatrical.Bigger. We went to shoot in Mexico City and Vera Cruz.And while I mdown there, I hear from Evelyn that she wants to leave me.Says sheneeds to find her own path and follow it her own way.Says that s whyshe didn t come with me to Mexico, because she didn t want to betagging along behind me.I was done arguing with her.She d wornme out.We d had one of our big fights right before I left.I d been outlate hanging with some of my friends, and when I got home she waswaiting up and spoiling for a fight.And at the height of it she squeals, I m gonna sew up my pussyso you can t fuck me no more.And then your dick ll wither and falloff and then you ll have a pussy and then maybe one of your friends llwanna fuck you. She actually said that.I couldn t write a line like that.So she calls me in Mexico and tells me, I m leaving cuz you makeme miserable.You make me feel like your name s always in capitalletters and my life s in lowercase. And I say, That s not true, baby.I want you to do well And she hangs up. 162 JOHN LEGUIZAMO*So I was bumming.Leo DiCaprio saw it, and decided he had tocheer me up.He was really good about it, even if the way he wentabout it was really.bad.Oh man, we went crazy.Crazy crazy.Madcrazy.The wildest parties, strippers, hookers, getting into fights inclubs.I thought Casualties of War was a crazy shoot, but this was cra-zier.And because the majority of the cast was younger than I was,I felt challenged to act even crazier than they were.A lot of stupidmale nonsense.We would have parties, just the guys playing pokerand talking shit, while strippers danced on our table.And there weresome adventures with the hookers that were videotaped, two on one,voyeurism, all that.Thank God for certain people s careers thosetapes were erased.I was with this stripper/hooker, and I asked her, You ever make itwith another woman? Why don t you work on satisfying one woman first, she says. Then we ll graduate. It wasn t easy dragging myself onto the set the next morning, I lltell you.But we were all supposed to be rough and ready youth in thefilm anyway, so I suppose it was method whoring.The locals got pretty wild themselves sometimes.At one point agang of banditos kidnapped our makeup man, Aldo Signoretti, who dworked with Fellini.They sent Baz a ransom note demanding $300,which is a lot of money in Mexico.It was surreal.Here we were, mak-ing this gangsta-style version of Romeo and Juliet, and real gangstersare fucking with us.Baz had to send a crew member to meet withthem on the street.They drove up in a car, he handed over the money,and they threw Aldo out as they drove away.You know the old theatersaying, Break a leg ? Aldo did.Leo was amazing.I was really impressed by the type of guy Leo is.He s such a pretty boy, and you always have some disdain for prettyboys.You never think they merit their success, because so many non- Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends 163*talents get their jobs in the business just on looks.But he was cool.Iwas amazed to find out what a down white boy he is rapping, hip-hopping, and he could breakdance, too.Leo DiCaprio popping andlocking.I was like, Damn! And he likes hanging out with a roughcrowd.He s not a prissy kid at all.He looks so delicate, but he s ananimal.Girls know about the sweet-faced pretty boys.We re the onesyou gotta look out for, right mami?Brian Dennehy, on the other hand, is exactly the tough cookieyou d expect.I think he was drying out at the time, so that made hima little edgy.He d have long waiting periods in his trailer, and thenthey d send some hapless production assistant to get him.One timethey sent the PA for him and he was like, If you knock on my doorone more time, you re gonna have to get an ambulance, cuz they regonna have to dig so far up your ass to remove my foot. Miriam Margolyes, who played Juliet s nurse, is a funny-ass lady.Funny, Cockney, crazy broad.She farted once just to make us alllaugh. There, that ll teach ya! A raunchy, crazy broad.I tried to ad-lib some.And believe me, it s hard to ad-lib in iam-bic pentameter.Baz let me do it.He filmed it all and then he cut itall out.You just don t ad-lib Shakespeare.It s like the eleventh com-mandment.Thou shalt not fuck around with Shakespeare.But Icame up with some good lines anyway.I went through a lot of Shake-speare, found some really funny lines and some really serious ones,and I figured I could just throw them in, just to embellish a little.Why not? What the fuck? Baz was cutting lines out why couldn t Iadd some back?All the young American actors had problems with their speeches.You can definitely see it in the movie.The British ones, of course,rocked it.They re the only ones who can do Shakespeare correctly.They re schooled in it, they grow up with it.You should have seen the looks on their faces when I was doing 164 JOHN LEGUIZAMO*some of my ad-libs
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