While we were there shooting one night, there was a shooting.
We were made to close down the set at gunpoint but we talked them down.
“These kids are what you could call nerds,” he explains.
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I’m really proud of the cast that we assembled, they were incredible."
“Ramses got injured during the fight scene really bad!
He had to be rushed to the emergency room,” Leguizamo states.
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“But he came back the next day and shot with stitches in like a total trooper.”
“Mentors are everything, especially to kids from underserved and underprivileged communities.
There’s only one secret about how to fund schools in our neighborhoods, it’s money.
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Give them more money so they can have more teachers, smaller classes, supplies, and clean schools.
They just needed someone to tell them that they’re special and that they matter.
How do you see yourself as a hero?
And further, how do other people see you as a hero?
This is why I wroteLatin History for Morons[currently streaming on Netflix], we do have heroes.
One hundred and twenty thousand of us fought in WWI, 500,000 of us fought in WWII.
Where’s the movie on that?
Where’s the History or Discovery Channel special about that?
It’s not even in our textbooks.
It does such a huge disservice to us and to this country by this psychosocial erasure.”
And Leguizamo is doing his part so that these stories aren’t left on the cutting room floor.
He admits he enjoyed lensingCritical Thinkingand hopes to find more stories like that to share.
You know how that is!
[Laughs] My comic bookPhenomXfeatures Latinos and Latinas as superheroes is being published by Image Comics in Oct. Watch an exclusive clip fromCritical Thinkingabove.
This interview has been edited and condensed for length andclarity.
Critical Thinkingdebuts in select theaters and on demand Sept. 4.
