Anecdotes Luis Guzmán, the actor who has been confused for 30 years with another for a role he never played
Hollywood Patrick Swayze's wife reveals the actor's last words before he died
Following the statements of Luis Guzmán (66), protagonist of the series
Oz
and
Narcos
, on
The Rich Eisen Show
where he confessed that on many occasions
he is confused
with Rick Avilés,
the interpreter who gave life to
Willie López,
in charge of murdering
Patrick Swayze
in
Ghost
(1990), LOC recovers the figure of Rick who, five years after the film's premiere,
died of AIDS
due to his heroin addiction.
He was also Puerto Rican
, the second of the three children
of a humble-class couple who lived in
Manhattan
.
Born in 1952, Richard Anthony Avilés soon
got into trouble
due to the large number of
street gangs
that were on the streets of New York, especially in the Hell's Kitchen area, which today is one of the most sought-after neighborhoods in the Big Apple. .
Little by little, he
worked his way
up from him to becoming a comical
street performer
on the Greenwich Village nightclub circuit in New York.
Also,
his monologues
in Central Park or Washington Square were so good that he often earned
$200 a day
by passing the hat.
Aware that he served to entertain people, he left his job as
a salesman
to perfect his style in comedy.
He had a great facility for
incorporating different accents
into his sketches, which were mostly based on imitations. He played different characters and observed people in their day-to-day lives.
In 1981 he got
his first important role
in
Los locos del Cannonball
(1981) but, without a doubt,
Ghost
marked him forever.
In an interview for
the Los Angeles Times
he stated "I can't believe they gave me the role of a murderer.
But I'm a comedian!"
and after reading the script he said: "You mean I
'm going to kill Patrick Swayze
and slap Demi Moore? Let me see that."
The same year that
Ghost
was released, he also
participated in another blockbuster,
The Godfather III.
The comedian, during one of his monologues.
Of
Puerto Rican
descent on his father's side and
Venezuelan
on his mother's side, those who knew him intimately say that he was a
really funny guy
with an unusual sense of humor.
Hence, he soon made his way into show business.
His shows on the New York subway are memorable, according to what some travelers explained following his
early death
in Los Angeles in 1995
at the age of 42.
His sentimental life was a disaster.
Due to her
addiction
, it was practically impossible for her to find a stable partner to help her leave that underworld.
On stage she used to joke that she had
experimented with drugs
on a couple of occasions.
However, her reality was very different.
The fame acquired by certain roles that, although very brief, have been remembered by the public - see that of Willie López in
Ghost
- was not of great help to straighten out his life.
He died without issue.
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