‘Seven Cemeteries’ star Danny Trejo joins Condé Nast Traveler to test his movie location knowledge. From Spy Kids to Anaconda, can Trejo remember locations from some of his most famous movies?
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00:00I'm Danny Drejo, and I've filmed in a lot of places.
00:03♪♪
00:07All right, let's go.
00:08This is a Catholic cathedral in Austin, Texas.
00:12This one is from Machete.
00:15Here's where Cheech Marin gets tortured,
00:18and I come in with Jessica Alba,
00:21and it's so funny.
00:24My favorite line is when people say,
00:27God, I thought you were taller.
00:29Now, while I was tall enough to kiss Jessica Alba,
00:31I was...
00:33Hey, shut up real quick.
00:35So, anyway, this movie, I really enjoyed this movie.
00:38Machete Don't Text came out then.
00:41You could have at least texted me.
00:44Machete Don't Text.
00:46That saying came from me and Robert Rodriguez.
00:50When we were at the San Diego Comic-Con,
00:52I jacked him up.
00:53Hey, I keep calling you, man.
00:55Answer your damn phone.
00:56He says, every time you call me, Danny,
00:58I'm in a meeting or I'm discussing something, text me.
01:02And I just said, Machete Don't Text.
01:04So he put that in the movie, so.
01:07All right, okay, and here's the next one.
01:08I see a boat on a river.
01:10This here is from Anaconda.
01:12This is my boat,
01:14and my character gets attacked by a giant anaconda.
01:18You see the floorboards going up,
01:21and there's kind of an iconic scene
01:23where the nails that are in the floor,
01:26they come jumping up,
01:27and you see me kind of great acting that I do.
01:30Ah.
01:31Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
01:33Still waiting for the Oscar on that one.
01:35This was filmed in Brazil on the Amazon River.
01:38I had a fourth grade teacher named Mrs. Finley
01:42who was crazy about the Amazon River.
01:46Now, I'm sitting in East Los Angeles,
01:48and this crazy lady,
01:50she's talking about the Amazon, who cares?
01:53You know what I mean?
01:54Hey, lady, we got a river, the L.A. River.
01:57And so it was just like crazy to me.
02:0050 years later, I'm on the damn Amazon River,
02:04and Ice Cube and J-Lo and Erik Stoltz and John Wayne,
02:09they're all asking questions.
02:11So I was answering them.
02:13He said, when did you learn all that?
02:15I thought you were a gangster.
02:17Gangsters don't know nothing.
02:19And you can't tell Ice Cube.
02:20I learned it in the fourth grade.
02:22So I said, when I was in the joint,
02:23and I read a lot.
02:25And I swear to God,
02:27Mrs. Finley used to always talk about
02:30the stars on the Amazon River.
02:33The stars are overwhelming.
02:36And I'd never been, she had never been there.
02:39So my scene was shot twilight.
02:42So I'm sitting at the front of the ship
02:44and I have nobody with me
02:46but the captain and the deckhands.
02:49I'm looking, I look up, I see all these doors,
02:51and I screamed it.
02:52Hey, Mrs. Finley, the stars are overwhelming.
02:57All the crew came running out thinking I was nuts.
03:00I said, the stars.
03:03There it is, all right.
03:04What I see in this picture is a little plane.
03:08This is actually from Spy Kids.
03:11This is the plane that the two kids,
03:15Daryl and Alexa, them two,
03:18I showed them this plane.
03:20I go to sleep and they steal it from me
03:23and go off to where the parents are being held.
03:27And what's that Spanish guy's name?
03:29He's not real.
03:30Oh, Antonio Banderas.
03:32He's like their dad and I'm his brother.
03:35It's funny because Alexa and Daryl
03:38cost everybody a lot of money
03:40because this is Sharp Kids.
03:42They had a cuss jar.
03:45And every time somebody cussed,
03:47you had to put a dollar in the thing,
03:50but you didn't want to be bugged.
03:51So everybody just put a 10 or a 20.
03:54Just leave me alone.
03:55Them kids were making $250, $300 every day.
04:02Sharp Kids, it's all right.
04:03Next stop.
04:04I see a robbery taking place.
04:07Big green truck was what we knocked over
04:10the armored car with.
04:12Yeah, that's the movie Heat.
04:13I was one of the armed robbers in the De Niro gang.
04:16This was shot in Los Angeles, downtown LA.
04:19I can't remember the exact location,
04:21but it was in between the two freeways.
04:23Michael Mann was the director
04:25and he accidentally called me Gilbert Trejo
04:28because he knew my uncle in Folsom.
04:31Michael Mann did a movie called The Jericho Mile
04:34in Folsom with my uncle
04:36and they were actually became friends.
04:38And so when he called me Gilbert,
04:40I said, I'm Danny.
04:41And we started talking and Gilbert had passed away.
04:43So finally he just came and said,
04:45can I call you Gilbert?
04:46Because every time I look at you,
04:47I think of Gilbert, yeah.
04:48So in that movie, it's Danny Trejo playing Gilbert Trejo.
04:52So that was kind of a homage to my uncle.
04:56All right, next one.
04:57Okay, this picture is,
04:59you're going into a bar called the Tarasco.
05:03This picture is,
05:06I know this.
05:07Okay, this is actually from Desperado.
05:10This was filmed in Acuna, Mexico.
05:13Funny story about that.
05:15I didn't say a word in this movie
05:17and I kept telling Robert,
05:18hey Robert, come on, give me a line.
05:21And he goes, no, no, no, no.
05:23Kept arguing with him.
05:24So after the movie aired
05:25and all the big wigs were screened,
05:29they asked me, you know, Q&A,
05:31Danny, you didn't say a word,
05:33yet that character was so powerful.
05:35Was that an actor's decision?
05:38Absolutely.
05:39I think Robert gave me the finger.
05:42This was Antonio's,
05:44one of Antonio Banderas' first movies.
05:47So nobody really knew him.
05:49And I'm walking around in a vest with no shirt.
05:51So everybody's asking me for autographs and pictures.
05:54Robert says, hey,
05:55they think you're the star of the movie.
05:57And I says, you mean I'm not?
05:58I thought I was too.
06:01All right, what I see in this picture is,
06:05whoa, I think this is also Machete.
06:09No.
06:11Uh.
06:14Hey, we stumped the stars.
06:15I have no idea what this picture.
06:18This is Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
06:21Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
06:22That was a lot of fun.
06:24Oh, this was the big fight in the courtyard
06:25where we were shooting and killing everybody, yeah.
06:28And Antonio blasts me
06:30and we hear all these watermelons
06:32and I'm searching myself,
06:34make sure I didn't get hit.
06:36We actually filmed it
06:37where the Mexican Revolution started,
06:40which was San Miguel Allende.
06:43El grito, the yell,
06:45that was there, you know, in Viva Mexico.
06:48One of the things about this movie
06:52was the way that when Selma would walk somewhere,
06:55it's funny to watch like a sea of heads,
06:58like just turning, everybody, it could help.
07:02I see a ocean and a cave.
07:06And this is from Six Days, Seven Nights,
07:10with Harrison Ford and Ann Heche.
07:13Kind of got about five weeks in Hawaii.
07:16It was a tough shoot
07:17because we're doing a lot of running,
07:19attacking, a lot of swimming,
07:20and Harrison Ford is cool.
07:22You know, he's one of them guys
07:23that just stands there and looks cool.
07:26We had a lot of fun.
07:26Everybody just got along really, really well.
07:30Wow.
07:31This is me in Gone with the Wind.
07:33I thought it looked like,
07:35you know that last scene where,
07:37I'll return to Terra.
07:39I see a tree
07:41with a beautiful kind of bronze sunset,
07:46a cemetery.
07:47I have no idea.
07:49This is from Seven Cemeteries.
07:51Ha!
07:52Well, I haven't, I didn't,
07:55I haven't seen it yet.
07:57Right after the bruja, the witch,
08:00has revived me,
08:01and I'm going around to different cemeteries
08:04and reviving my old gang.
08:06There's seven of them,
08:08so everything about it,
08:09it's just a fun, fun movie.
08:12We used this house,
08:13old abandoned house,
08:15that I swear to God,
08:16had these beautiful spiders,
08:18but they were that big.
08:20You know what I mean?
08:21And when you got near their nest,
08:23they would start like moving.
08:26This was filmed outside of Oklahoma City.
08:29In fact, I went into one of the casinos there,
08:32and they want me to put Trejo's tacos there.
08:37So, I might be going back there to do that.
08:40Hey, this is Danny Trejo.
08:42I did pretty good.
08:43The only reason I didn't get Seven Cemeteries,
08:46because I just did it.