John Leguizamo says he tips waiters and valets with $100 bills: ‘I’m not a cheapskate’
If you’re a waiter or clerk, you have to hope to get John Leguizamo as a customer.
In an interview on Good morning AmericaThe Power star, 62, revealed that he tips waiters and clerks with $100 bills.
“Come on, this isn’t the 1970s,” Leguizamo said. “You can’t tip with $20 bills. People are going to throw you back at that.’
“You have to give back,” he said. “When people give you their best and you don’t tip them? Come on, who are you?
“I’m not a cheapskate,” added The Menu star – who is boycotting the new Super Mario Bros. movie.
Big tipper: If you’re a waiter or clerk, you should hope to get John Leguizamo as a client, as he revealed that he tips waiters and clerks with $100 bills; seen in 2023
Leguizamo also talked about his new Amazon Prime series, The Power, which is based on Naomi Alderman’s 2016 bestseller of the same name.
“Can you imagine a world where women are taking over? It would be a great place. So that’s what this series is,” Leguizamo said.
“Teenage girls through evolution develop an organ to protect themselves, and it gives them electricity.”
“Static shock for some girls, nuclear explosions for other girls – and men are scared.”
“It’s a great, scary, powerful series,” he added, noting that men are not so easily willing to give up their power.
And while the Leguizamo Does America star loves the concept of The Power, he’s less than thrilled with the new Super Mario Bros. movie.
He starred in the 1993 Mario Bros. movie, but won’t see the latest movie due to the lack of a Latin character.
“They could have used a Latin character. I was groundbreaking, and then they stopped groundbreaking,” he said.
Not a cheapskate: “Come on, this isn’t the 1970s,” Leguizamo said. “You can’t tip with $20 bills. That’s what people are going to give you back’; Seen 2023
Respect: “You have to give back,” he said. “When people give you their best and you don’t tip them? Come on, who are you?’
The Power: Leguizamo also talked about his new Amazon Prime series, The Power, which is based on Naomi Alderman’s 2016 bestseller of the same name
“They screwed up the recording. They have withdrawn,’ Leguizamo continued. “I just cast some Latin folk. We’re 20 percent of the population — the largest group of people of color, and we’re underrepresented. Overrepresented in the worst jobs.’
While Mario and Luigi are portrayed as Italians in several games, the characters were created by Japanese game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi.
Leguizamo may have meant Latin actors, since he still played Italian in the 1993 film.
However, the new Super Mario Bros. movie does have some Latin American actors, but not in the lead roles.
Back in November, he told IndieWire that it “sucks” that the new movie had white actors Chris Pratt and Charlie Day as Mario and Luigi, respectively.
New World: “It’s a great, scary, powerful series,” he added, noting that men don’t want to give up their power so easily
‘I’m OG. Many people like the original,” said the Bogotá, Colombia-born star. “I did Comic-Con in New York and in Baltimore, and everyone was like, ‘No, no, we like the old, the original.’ They don’t feel the new one. I’m not bitter. It’s unfortunate.’
About the 1993 film, he added, “The directors Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton fought really hard for me to play the lead because I was a Hispanic man, and [the studio] didn’t want me to be the lead. They fought really hard and it was such a breakthrough.”
He added, ‘for them to back off and not cast another [actor of color] kinda sucks.’