Heat (1995)—“Trejo”
Danny Trejo: Yeah, that was the shit. That was unreal. Me and Eddie Bunker walked on that set as armed-robbery consultants. What a job. [Laughs.] I ran into Michael Mann, and he knew me from a movie called Drug Wars: The Camarena Story that me and him did years ago. Then he also knew my uncle who’s in Folsom, because he did a movie called The Jericho Mile. So Michael Mann says, “Come on, Danny, I want you to meet a couple of guys you’re going to be working with.” I walk into a room with Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight. I just said, “Wow.” [Laughs.] I could not believe it. And then he says, “Here,” and that’s where I got that role.
AV Club: What does an armed-robbery consultant do?
DT: You just make it look real. You show somebody how to hold a gun. You show somebody how to walk into a bank. You show somebody how to take control. Everybody has an idea of what an armed robbery is supposed to be, and the reality is, you have to scare people up until a point. If you scare them too much, you will lose control, because they will freak out. That’s the last thing you want. So some people will come in, “All right, you motherfuckers! Everybody get up against the fucking…” and it’s like, “Dude, they’re going to blow. You understand what I’m saying?” But if you walk up to somebody and say, “Look, I’ve got a gun, and if you make one move, I’ll kill you.” All of a sudden, they take that in, okay, they’ve taken that into their senses, and they’re saying, “I better not move.” It’s like a horse. If you run up to a horse, you’re going to scare it. It’s going to jump. So you just walk up to him real slow and then put a saddle on him or whatever you want.
full interview here.
Danny Trejo: Yeah, that was the shit. That was unreal. Me and Eddie Bunker walked on that set as armed-robbery consultants. What a job. [Laughs.] I ran into Michael Mann, and he knew me from a movie called Drug Wars: The Camarena Story that me and him did years ago. Then he also knew my uncle who’s in Folsom, because he did a movie called The Jericho Mile. So Michael Mann says, “Come on, Danny, I want you to meet a couple of guys you’re going to be working with.” I walk into a room with Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight. I just said, “Wow.” [Laughs.] I could not believe it. And then he says, “Here,” and that’s where I got that role.
AV Club: What does an armed-robbery consultant do?
DT: You just make it look real. You show somebody how to hold a gun. You show somebody how to walk into a bank. You show somebody how to take control. Everybody has an idea of what an armed robbery is supposed to be, and the reality is, you have to scare people up until a point. If you scare them too much, you will lose control, because they will freak out. That’s the last thing you want. So some people will come in, “All right, you motherfuckers! Everybody get up against the fucking…” and it’s like, “Dude, they’re going to blow. You understand what I’m saying?” But if you walk up to somebody and say, “Look, I’ve got a gun, and if you make one move, I’ll kill you.” All of a sudden, they take that in, okay, they’ve taken that into their senses, and they’re saying, “I better not move.” It’s like a horse. If you run up to a horse, you’re going to scare it. It’s going to jump. So you just walk up to him real slow and then put a saddle on him or whatever you want.
full interview here.
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