For decades, Hollywood actor Danny Trejo’s bread and butter was playing gangsters, prison inmates and other assorted criminals.
\n\nSo when he was offered the chance to play a hardworking, peace-loving Mexican shop owner in a thriller with a working title of “Pawn Shop,” Trejo, 82, “jumped at the idea of playing a good guy,” his son, Gilbert Trejo, said on social media.
\n\nNow Trejo is catching flak for taking part in what has been described as a pro-ICE movie that is being produced by the conservative media outfit The Daily Wire, which was founded by political commentator Ben Shapiro.
\n\n“I am a proud Mexican who has always been and will always be a supporter of my community,” Trejo wrote Friday on Instagram. “I am also obviously pro immigrant. I am not pro ice.”
\n\nTrejo gave no indication in the post whether he knew who was producing the movie when he signed on to it, and he closed by declaring: “I am an actor. My job is to tell a story.”
\n\nHis son, however, insisted that Trejo did not know Shapiro was involved in the movie until two weeks into the shooting.
\n\n“My 82-year-old dad has never heard of Ben Shapiro,”…
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