Danny Trejo reflects on life, prison and Hollywood: "Movie stars are d**ks, OK? They suck"

Salon, August 7, 2021: Danny Trejo reflects on life, prison and Hollywood: "Movie stars are d**ks, OK? They suck"

“If I had a dollar for every time a producer, director or actor tried to use my reckless background as a tool to add validity to their film or television show about ‘the ghetto,’ I would be a very rich man. The problem is that I have too much integrity to sell out my neighborhood, my family and myself, which is a rarity. I know that in America, everybody with money thinks that everything is always about money—and it's not. If my community knew that I was a part of a project that didn't honor our neighborhoods in the right way, I would not be able to come back home. Legendary actor Danny Trejo writes about the same kind of community loyalty in his new memoir, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption and Hollywood.”

Additional reading:

Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood on bookshop.org

GQ, June 22, 2021: When Danny Trejo Negotiated Between Hollywood and Mexican Prison Gangs

San Quentin News, March 23, 2018: Actor Danny Trejo escaped the death penalty