Robert Rodriguez

But he's not doing it for the money. It turns out he has to get this guy that escaped Mexico, and that's the twist. So that was the original story I had. I said, we're going to do this someday. And we talked about it for years and never did it. Never got around to doing it.

But he's not doing it for the money. It turns out he has to get this guy that escaped Mexico, and that's the twist. So that was the original story I had. I said, we're going to do this someday. And we talked about it for years and never did it. Never got around to doing it.

So when I did Spy Kids, I put him in Spy Kids, and I said, hey, let's pay tribute to that character we never got to make, and you'll be Uncle Machete. He's a gadget guy, but he's got a mysterious past. But then a few years later, Quentin and I were doing Grindhouse. And he'd already done Dustal Domini. I was building my own Latin star system. Salmo showed up in a bunch of my movies.

So when I did Spy Kids, I put him in Spy Kids, and I said, hey, let's pay tribute to that character we never got to make, and you'll be Uncle Machete. He's a gadget guy, but he's got a mysterious past. But then a few years later, Quentin and I were doing Grindhouse. And he'd already done Dustal Domini. I was building my own Latin star system. Salmo showed up in a bunch of my movies.

So when I did Spy Kids, I put him in Spy Kids, and I said, hey, let's pay tribute to that character we never got to make, and you'll be Uncle Machete. He's a gadget guy, but he's got a mysterious past. But then a few years later, Quentin and I were doing Grindhouse. And he'd already done Dustal Domini. I was building my own Latin star system. Salmo showed up in a bunch of my movies.

Cheech shows up in every movie. Danny shows up. I brought Cheech out of retirement and put him in my movie. I needed to create my own Latin star system because all my scripts, because when you write in your own voice, you're going to write probably somebody that's Latin.

Cheech shows up in every movie. Danny shows up. I brought Cheech out of retirement and put him in my movie. I needed to create my own Latin star system because all my scripts, because when you write in your own voice, you're going to write probably somebody that's Latin.

Cheech shows up in every movie. Danny shows up. I brought Cheech out of retirement and put him in my movie. I needed to create my own Latin star system because all my scripts, because when you write in your own voice, you're going to write probably somebody that's Latin.

So you need to have a star system that matches that so that you don't have trouble casting and people are like, well, you can't hire this person. So I built up my own star system. So Danny was one of my stars. So after we're doing Grindhouse, we had to do fake trailers for Grindhouse. And I told Quentin, I know what trailer I'm going to do for the movie I never got to make with Danny Cole Machete.

So you need to have a star system that matches that so that you don't have trouble casting and people are like, well, you can't hire this person. So I built up my own star system. So Danny was one of my stars. So after we're doing Grindhouse, we had to do fake trailers for Grindhouse. And I told Quentin, I know what trailer I'm going to do for the movie I never got to make with Danny Cole Machete.

So you need to have a star system that matches that so that you don't have trouble casting and people are like, well, you can't hire this person. So I built up my own star system. So Danny was one of my stars. So after we're doing Grindhouse, we had to do fake trailers for Grindhouse. And I told Quentin, I know what trailer I'm going to do for the movie I never got to make with Danny Cole Machete.

That'll be so fun. Finally get that out of our system. And doing a trailer is so fun. It's two days of shooting. Just still being that resourceful guy. We asked this company that had a digital camera we wanted to use. Can you let us send it to us for a couple of day screen test? I mean, camera test. Instead of shooting a camera test, we shot the trailer.

That'll be so fun. Finally get that out of our system. And doing a trailer is so fun. It's two days of shooting. Just still being that resourceful guy. We asked this company that had a digital camera we wanted to use. Can you let us send it to us for a couple of day screen test? I mean, camera test. Instead of shooting a camera test, we shot the trailer.

That'll be so fun. Finally get that out of our system. And doing a trailer is so fun. It's two days of shooting. Just still being that resourceful guy. We asked this company that had a digital camera we wanted to use. Can you let us send it to us for a couple of day screen test? I mean, camera test. Instead of shooting a camera test, we shot the trailer.

So we got a free camera, shot the trailer with him. And it's just the money shots, him opening his vest full of machetes, you know, him aiming that gun, him in a waterfall with two gals. And I just came up with this really funny trailer. and we shot it, people were screaming at the premiere. You couldn't even hear it.

So we got a free camera, shot the trailer with him. And it's just the money shots, him opening his vest full of machetes, you know, him aiming that gun, him in a waterfall with two gals. And I just came up with this really funny trailer. and we shot it, people were screaming at the premiere. You couldn't even hear it.

So we got a free camera, shot the trailer with him. And it's just the money shots, him opening his vest full of machetes, you know, him aiming that gun, him in a waterfall with two gals. And I just came up with this really funny trailer. and we shot it, people were screaming at the premiere. You couldn't even hear it.

They just wanted that movie so badly, because there was blaxploitation in the 70s. There was never mexploitation. It felt like this should have existed, but it didn't. It's Mexican superhero. They just never seen anything like that. You know, now you know. But like, even his mom calls him Machete. Like, he just became this guy.

They just wanted that movie so badly, because there was blaxploitation in the 70s. There was never mexploitation. It felt like this should have existed, but it didn't. It's Mexican superhero. They just never seen anything like that. You know, now you know. But like, even his mom calls him Machete. Like, he just became this guy.

They just wanted that movie so badly, because there was blaxploitation in the 70s. There was never mexploitation. It felt like this should have existed, but it didn't. It's Mexican superhero. They just never seen anything like that. You know, now you know. But like, even his mom calls him Machete. Like, he just became this guy.