Thanks For Everything, John Leguizamo

October 02, 2006

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Actor John Leguizamo has a new memoir coming out called "Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and all the Rest of My Hollywood Friends: A Life." It’s filled with delightfully dishy anecdotes about his life in show biz. I interviewed him recently for the Big Gay Following page of The Advocate. The mag didn’t have room for some of my favorite stuff -- the “earrings in the dog poop” story, for example -- so I’m going to share them with you!

DENNIS HENSLEY: Your book’s very honest. Did you struggle with how much to reveal?

JOHN LEGUIZAMO: When you’re writing at home, you’re like, “I’m going to tell the truth.” Then, when you start letting it out of your hands, the panic hits. Still, I hope people get some laughs out of it and that they can understand me in a deeper way and not just in an “E! True Hollywood Story” kind of cheesy, sleazy way.

DH: You write that on the film Regarding Henry, some crew members took out their frustrations with director Mike Nichols by peeing in his cappuccino machine.

JL: I hope Mike finds that kind of humorous because I like him, he’s a friend of mine. That was a lesson for me that you gotta learn how to deal with all kinds of political things in making a movie.

DH: Then there’s the story about how you were going to give your girlfriend at the time, Samantha Mathis, an expensive pair of earrings but your dog ate them and so you had to follow the dog around until he pooped them out.

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