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Danny Trejo’s Rise From Incarcerated Boxer to Hollywood Star

There’s a scene in Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo where the subject remembers when he was a teenager, high on heroin and robbing an electronics store with a hand grenade. Another memory focuses on his time in San Quentin prison, when he reenacted the entire script from The Wizard of Oz in solitary confinement just so he would keep his own sanity. Or how about that time when he heard his mother had just died. He was on the set of Muppets Most Wanted and sitting next to him was Kermit the Frog.