20 Questions: John Leguizamo

May, 1992

Actor and monologist John Leguizamo's one-man show "Mambo Mouth" introduced New Yorkers and, later, cable and video audiences to a collection of wildly entertaining but disturbed Hispanic street characters recalled from his youth in New York City's borough of Queens. For his performance in "Hangin' with the Homeboys," Leguizamo was described by one critic as a "Latino version of Brando."Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Leguizamo moved to New York at the age of five. He adm...

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