John Leguizamo Teases New Project 'The Untold History of Latinos' | Emmys 2024 - video Dailymotion

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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.

00:01Thank you, so do you. You look very glamorous.

00:03Thank you. We're trying to give glamour, and now the Emmys...

00:06You're giving it all the way.

00:07Thank you. I mean, second time around this year for the Emmys, which is rare.

00:10You know, Hollywood is bouncing back in a new way.

00:13What are you excited to see, especially with this year in Hollywood,

00:17that maybe we hadn't seen before?

00:19I think it is the most diverse Emmys list of nominees in its history.

00:25After 76 years, you know, We Latin and Black People have been here forever,

00:29and not gotten our due.

00:31So, you know, I think we're starting getting closer to parody.

00:34So I'm happy about that, really happy.

00:36I like a little progress.

00:38We all like a little progress.

00:40And speaking of progress, I mean, so many shows are making history.

00:43So many people are literally first-time nominees, which we also love to see.

00:48Yeah, the newbies. We love the newbies.

00:50Yes, what shows are you rooting for the most tonight?

00:54Shogun, Baby Reindeer.

00:57Shogun, Baby Reindeer, The Bear.

01:00I mean, there's so much stuff, man.

01:02I can't even.

01:03Can't keep up.

01:04Can't keep up. It's impossible.

01:06Well, tonight, obviously, you are here with, there's so, oh my goodness,

01:10there's so many people that are coming right now that I love this.

01:12But what are you most looking forward to with this Emmys,

01:16other than the history that's being made with the first-time nominees?

01:19What are you most looking forward to tonight?

01:21Well, Chris Obrego is a friend of mine, and he's the new chair,

01:24the first Latin chair of the Emmys Awards, and I'm presenting him tonight.

01:29So I'm really looking forward to that moment.

01:31They gave me a really beautiful spotlight moment, so I'm going to seize it.

01:35Do you think you'll make your friend cry?

01:37I'm going to make a lot of people cry.

01:39Carpe diem.

01:40Uh-oh.

01:40Here we go. I'm ready to see it.

01:42So I hear you have a new project coming that you've got to tell us about.

01:46Yes, it's called, it's on PBS, it's called American Historia, the Untold History of Latinos.

01:51It took me five years to get this on air, and I'm so, it's the thing I'm most proud.

01:56I think this is the cultural corrective my people have been waiting for their whole lives.

02:00Because John Hopkins University did a study, and 87% of Latin contributions to making of the U.S.

02:05are not in history textbooks, and this is the antidote to that.

02:09Wow.

02:10That is amazing.

02:11What is the biggest thing that you learned during that time on the show that you were just shocked by?

02:18Even you, as a person who's a part of the community, a leader and a representative in the community,

02:22what were you like, oh, I didn't even know that?

02:24Well, I didn't realize how much oppression we had experienced.

02:30I was not aware.

02:30After black people were the second most lynched people in America, we were burnt alive, shot, experimented on, sterilized, segregated.

02:41The first young boy lynched in America was a Latin boy, 1911, before Edgar Mevers, who was the second.

02:50And he was 14 years old because he dispected a white man in 1911, Antonio Gomez.

02:56So that fact was, like, chilling.

02:58Wow.

02:59History textbooks crossed out, deleted, erased.

03:01And now we're putting it back into the world.

03:04And when does this project come out?

03:05September 27th on PBS at 9 p.m.

03:07October 27th on PBS at 9 p.m.

03:10October 28th on PBS at 14 p.m.

03:14Sorry.

03:35So that podcast of any otherск relaxing presents won't be.

John Leguizamo Teases New Project 'The Untold History of Latinos' | Emmys 2024

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