TV Tattler: Celebrity Interviews
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It must also be especially satisfying when it's one of your one-man shows, something you've written for yourself.
Oh, it's incredibly satisfying. When you're doing it, you've feel like you've reinvented the wheel. It just feels very powerful to create it yourself. I mean, it's exhausting, but you feel like, "Damn, I've accomplished something!"
And they're so personal, too.
Oh yeah. Free therapy.
You're also starring as Lorenzo in the upcoming movie version of 'Love in the Time of Cholera,' which is a book so many people love. What was it like to go back to Colombia to film that?
Oh, it was so amazing. Because I'm Columbian and Puerto Rican, so it was great to be home, and the people are awesome, the food, the music, the hot weather. And it was cool to do another period piece, after 'Moulin Rouge.' I enjoyed the hell out of it. The costumes, I finally learned how to ride a horse ... And I brought my kids, and I bought a house down there.
Okay, one more thing: Your book, 'Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends,' is a fun read, and you weren't shy about sharing your opinions on various celebs you've worked with. What's been the feedback on that?
Haha! I've gotten a lot of positive reaction from people in the industry, and people wanting to be in the industry, [saying], "It's so realistic, man, you really tell it like it is. You show all the scars and bruises, and it's uplifting." And then I've heard also from some of the people I talk about that they want to beat me up, punch me, that they're going to knock me out if they see me.
But it's all true stuff, so ...
It is all true, but people don't want to be talked about in any kind of unflattering way. But, you know, f*** it.
Have you had second thoughts about anything you included?
You know, it took me three years, and I really thought about everything a lot, so no, I'm not sorry about anything I put in it. I thought about everything really, really deeply before I put it out. And then the lawyers looked at it, and told me what they would and wouldn't back me up on, and that helped me make my decision, too. I was trying to make it sort of a cross genre of autobiography and anecdotes, and to be moving at the same time.
It was. It feels like a book version of one of your one-man shows.
That's it, that's what I wanted.
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