John Leguizamo stops to chat with THR at the 2024 Emmys red carpet and reveals that he is rooting for 'Shōgun,' 'Baby Reindeer' and 'The Bear' tonight. Plus, he teases his new project 'VOCES American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos' on PBS.
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00:00You know you look amazing tonight.
00:02Thank you, so do you. You look very glamorous.
00:04Thank you. We're trying to give glamour.
00:06You're giving it all the way.
00:08Second time around this year for the Emmys, which is rare.
00:10You know, Hollywood is
00:12bouncing back in a new way.
00:14What are you excited to see, especially
00:16with this year in Hollywood that
00:18maybe we hadn't seen before?
00:20I think it is the most diverse
00:22Emmys list
00:24of nominees in its history.
00:26After 76 years,
00:28B-Line and Black B-Line have been here forever
00:30and not gotten our due.
00:32I think we're starting getting closer to parody.
00:34So I'm happy about that.
00:36I like a little progress.
00:38We all like a little progress.
00:40And speaking of progress,
00:42so many shows are making history.
00:44So many people are literally
00:46first-time nominees, which we also love to see.
00:48The newbies. We love the newbies.
00:50What shows are you rooting
00:52for the most tonight?
00:54Shogun.
00:56Baby Reindeer.
00:58The Bear.
01:00I mean, there's so much stuff, man.
01:02I can't even...
01:04Can't keep up. It's impossible.
01:06Well, tonight, obviously,
01:08you are here with...
01:10There's so many people that are coming right now
01:12that I love this. But what are you
01:14most looking forward to with this Emmys?
01:16Other than the history that's being made
01:18with the first-time nominees,
01:20what are you most looking forward to tonight?
01:22Well, Christopher Brago is a friend of mine
01:24and he's the new chair, the first Latin chair
01:26of the Emmys Awards.
01:28And I'm presenting him tonight.
01:30So I'm really looking forward to that moment.
01:32They gave me a really beautiful spotlight moment,
01:34so I'm going to seize it.
01:36Do you think you'll make your friend cry?
01:38I'm going to make a lot of people cry.
01:40Carpe diem.
01:42Here we go. I'm ready to see it.
01:44So I hear you have a new project coming
01:46that you've got to tell us about.
01:48Yes. It's on PBS. It's called
01:50American Historia, the Untold History of Latinos.
01:52It took me five years to get this on air.
01:54And it's the thing I'm most proud of.
01:56I think this is the cultural corrective
01:58my people have been waiting for their whole lives.
02:00Because John Hopkins University
02:02did a study and 87% of Latin
02:04contributions to making of the U.S.
02:06are not in history textbooks.
02:08And this is the antidote to that.
02:10That is amazing.
02:12What is the biggest thing
02:14that you learned during that time
02:16on the show that you were just shocked by?
02:18Even you as a person who's a part
02:20of the community, a leader and a representative
02:22of the community, what were you like?
02:24Oh, I didn't even know that.
02:26Well, I didn't realize
02:28how much oppression we had experienced.
02:30I was not aware.
02:32After black people were the second most lynched people
02:34in America, but we were burnt
02:36alive, shot,
02:38experimented on, sterilized,
02:40segregated.
02:42The first young
02:44boy lynched in America
02:46was a Latin boy, 1911,
02:48before Edgar Mevers,
02:50who's the second.
02:52And he was 14 years old because he disrespected
02:54a white man in 1911, Antonio Gomez.
02:56So that fact was like chilling.
02:58Wow.
03:00Crossed out, deleted, erased.
03:02And now we're putting it back into the world.
03:04And when does this project come out?
03:06September 27th on PBS at 9pm.