Danny Trejo reveals what being on the set of the cult action classic Con Air was really like — and it's about what you'd expect. 'Con Air is funny, because they wanted to put all the wannabe tough guys in a plane in Hollywood.'
Keeping in line with the very nature of the film, Danny Trejo has revealed what being on the Con Air set was really like. The 1997 action blockbuster starred Nicolas Cage as an honorably discharged U.S. Army Ranger who is nearing the end of his 10-year prison sentence after accidentally killing a man in self-defense during a group assault on him and his wife.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY While speaking with GQ to reflect on his iconic characters, Danny Trejo opened up about the production on the action cult classic, Con Air. The actor recalled the sheer testosterone flowing through the set of the film, including he and his co-stars engaging in various competitions between takes to prove who had "the biggest huevos.
Con Air is funny, because they want to put all the wannabe tough guys in a plane in Hollywood. Lunch turned into a big “Who’s got the biggest huevos?” If somebody spit, somebody else would, it was a spitting contest, if you did a push-up, everybody tried to do more push-ups, it became a big contest. They tried to bait you into things.
Paired with this was the action itself in Con Air, which featured some of the most grandiose practical explosions of the time, outside of a Michael Bay movie. Additionally, much like Speed before it, director Simon West, whom Cage would later reunite with for 2012's Stolen, and writer Scott Rosenberg found a way to keep audiences on the edge of their seats on a vehicle with no clear end destination, only with far fewer and safer means of escape than the Keanu Reeves-led thriller.
What Trejo Has Done Since Con Air In addition to being peak '90s macho action, Con Air came in the early stages of Trejo's rise in popularity, with the actor fresh off the heels of Michael Mann's Heat and his first Robert Rodriguez collaboration, Desperado.
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