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He began appearing in American films in the early nineties; some of his earlier roles there included the film, The Mambo Kings , as well as a supporting role in the Oscar-winning film, Philadelphia.

He appeared in several major Hollywood releases in , including a starring role in the Robert Rodriguez-directed film, Desperado. In , he starred alongside Madonna in Evita , an adaptation of the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice in which he played the narrator, Che, a role originally played on Broadway by Mandy Patinkin.

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He's so cute". Before, it was, "I loved you in [ The Mask of Zorro ]. And sometimes you think, "Is she saying that because she has some other They love the cat, and they hate me.

To be married in our profession is not an easy thing. There's too many beautiful people around, very interesting people. It's just a matter of really having-being patient and probably having the capacity and the faith of falling in love with your own wife again.

That happens to me. Melanie [wife Melanie Griffith ] is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me. I admired [wife Melanie Griffith ] before I loved her. I get more attention as "the pussycat" in Shrek the Third than I ever did as Zorro. I don't believe in careers, I just picture myself always as one of those old actors from the 19th century who go from village to village in their repertoire.

When you see actors on the red carpet, they seem to know each other but really it's like a wax museum. Los Angeles is probably one of the fakest cities in the world. For me, it is a working place. You have to be, in this professional world; otherwise you would spend your whole life in a psychiatric ward!

Going up and down continuously, "I am great! But the way that you work and the things that you do, for me it's very important in my mind to have clear that my professional life starts at "action! The work is what you do when you are acting.

And I understand that they're going to open in like 25 countries also, theatrically. But in America, no -- there were offers from studios, I am aware of that because I talked to [Nu Image and Millenium Pictures head] Avi Lerner , but they didn't want to give the money necessary to compete in a theatrical environment in terms of publicity and promotion.

But that's the way it goes! That is our world. For me, I joined [the project] very late in the movie; almost 15 days before they started, they called me. And so I had to travel to New York very fast The possibility of working with an actor that I really admire. He's got a tremendous personality. He's one of those guys that it doesn't matter what he does in front of the camera, he's always interesting because he's got this aura. And then, Mimi Leder became one of my attractions to the project, because she's a woman that has inside more than I have seen in the movies.

A couple of movies of hers I really like, and when I saw her working, she's very powerful. There's also a sensitivity coming from women that I love, and I've been directed by women three or four times, in terms of directing actors and managing the entire set. It's very interesting. So all of those elements made it for me.

Then, the results are something that you never know what's going to happen, especially in a movie like this -- a genre movie made by an independent company.

That is the problem. Because it's a genre movie, and those are movies that normally are supposed to be done by studios. It's very rare -- this is an independent company, but they emulate the studios in a way. You know, "Thick as Thieves" is a movie that probably, if it would have been presented in the '70s or the '80s, would have been a very successful movie.

You can do movies like that if you go in the independent world. In fact, last year, for example, Slumdog Millionaire is a movie that comes from that world, and it breaks structures because they are more daring. But coming from the studios, it's very difficult to find that. I'm not criticizing the studios; they have to do what they have to do. They're looking for commercial movies, and that's fantastic and it keeps alive the industry and I think that's absolutely fine.

But if you want to find those types of risks, you have to go to another structure. I think movies serve many purposes; one can be purely entertainment, another can be a reflection of the human spirit, and another goes in another direction, experimental All of them are good. I am not criticizing specifically one way of making movies; this just is the way it is.

There is nothing in the world that cannot be cured by love. That is the most thing. Sometimes, it even bothers me just to see my name built up more than it actually is. I never believe anything that is happening to me, probably because I am very insecure. Everything is concerned with image, the box office, stars.