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18 November 2010 2:29 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

From junkie thief to innumerable character roles, the man with the most striking mug in Hollywood is finally getting, with Machete, his chance to star

Danny Trejo is firmly established in his second life as a movie actor, and is currently digging into "the best eggs Benedict in town" in a booth at Musso & Frank on Hollywood Boulevard. Meanwhile, he is regaling me with tales from his first life, as a junkie, professional thief and hardcore inmate of some of the worst prisons in 1960s California. Trejo, 17 years before he had any idea about his next career, nearly blew it for good. Fate, dumb luck, and the law had other ideas, though.

"I cleaned up on Cinco de Mayo, 1968. I went to the hole after a prison riot at Soledad prison. There was a visiting baseball team in the yard that day and Ray Pacheco, one of my friends, had come down from Atascadero, »

- John Patterson

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