Interview: Danny Trejo Talks Seven Cemeteries, His Positive Outlook on Life By ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to Seven Cemeteries star Danny Trejo about the . The icon discussed his appreciation for life, filming Seven Cemeteries, and working with co-stars like . From Quiver Distribution, it is now available on digital and on demand.
“A recent parolee (Danny Trejo) gets a Mexican witch to resurrect his old posse so that they can help him save a woman’s ranch from a ruthless drug lord,” says the synopsis for Seven Cemeteries. : He comes out of the joint, and he dies, getting set for revenge. Then him and that bruja, that witch, they plot to get even.
It’s an exciting movie. I loved it because there was enough laughter to kind of meld together with the scary stuff, you know what I mean? So it wasn’t just an Exorcist movie. There was some comedy in it.
There were some funny parts in it. It was cool. Everybody, the whole cast, kind of gelled together.
I’ve worked with him before. I’ve worked with Lew [Temple] before, and it was kind of a friendly old homie. My son Gilbert, he played me as a young kid, and it was funny because I got that big tattoo on my chest, right? So they put it on him and he was like, “You are an idiot,” because the tattoo covered my whole chest.
“You are an idiot, Dad.” I’d been taking him to movie sets, I’m a single dad, so I was taking him anytime I couldn’t find a sitter. My daughter, same thing.
She’s in produ.