Can't wait for Ministers

[big, big john fan]

Hi All - I've never posted here before but I just love Johnny legz and am so psyched for The Ministers - 2 times the johnny legz screen time! Just read an article on some site called 30ninjas and they have a really long article with john:

http://30ninjas.com/blog/exclusive-interview-john-leguizamo-part-1

30 NINJAS: Franc Reyes said it was your idea to make the two brothers, Dante and Perfecto Mendoza, identical twins, with both parts performed by you. Tell me how that developed.
JOHN LEGUIZAMO: Isn’t it always an actor’s idea, the ultimate narcissism? (laughs) The script was written for two brothers, and I just thought that making them twins would add so much more tension and so much more gravitas to what he was doing. Because he’s a fascinating individual, Franc, and he always writes these fantastic stories about his growing up [in the South Bronx] and then he takes them to more operatic kind of storytelling. Twin brothers — it doesn’t always work out; I’ve seen it fail more than it succeeds — but I thought in this situation if we did it right, it could be incredible. And I think Franc did his due diligence and really studied the situation of how to make the illusion of two people with one person. It’s incredibly believable when you see it on film.
30 NINJAS: You’re no stranger to playing multiple characters. But playing identical twins must really require a far finer sense of nuance than any other two characters you might play. The trick, I would think, would be how to make them the same yet different. How did you go about differentiating them, physically and otherwise?
JL: You want to make sure you do it sophisticatedly enough so it’s incredibly believable so the audience isn’t lost, and at the same time you believe that two identical twins can be different or the same played by the same actor. So we had to work really hard to figure out what was subtle and what wasn’t and extract all the unsubtleties.