{"id":877106,"date":"2026-10-10T05:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T05:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/877106\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T05:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T05:02:07","slug":"danny-trejo-on-his-role-in-pawn-shop-movie-i-am-not-pro-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/877106\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Trejo on His Role in &#8216;Pawn Shop&#8217; Movie: &#8216;I Am Not Pro-ICE&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/danny-trejo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_danny-trejo\" data-tag=\"danny-trejo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Danny Trejo<\/a> has issued his first statement since facing backlash for starring in the pro-ICE Daily Wire movie \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/pawn-shop\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pawn-shop\" data-tag=\"pawn-shop\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pawn Shop<\/a>\u201d from <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/ben-shapiro\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ben-shapiro\" data-tag=\"ben-shapiro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Shapiro<\/a>\u2018s production company. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI am a proud Mexican who has always been and will always be a supporter of my community. I am also obviously pro-immigrant. I am not pro-ICE,\u201d the \u201cSpy Kids\u201d actor told <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/10\/09\/danny-trejo-speaks-out-on-ben-shapiro-movie-backlash\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\">TMZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI know where I come from and I know our struggles,\u201d he added, \u201cI am an actor. My job is to tell a story.\u201d TMZ reported that Trejo had told people on set that he was attracted to the role because it was a positive depiction of a Latino who is also a veteran. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe production was shut down in Livingston, Montana last Saturday when locals complained about the production\u2019s impact on the Livingston food bank and improper warnings about hazardous stunts. Production <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/ben-shapiro-pro-ice-movie-restarts-production-shutdown-1236903589\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resumed Monday<\/a>, with political commentator Shapiro slamming the shutdown as  \u201ccontent discrimination\u201d and \u201ca violation of the First Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOne scene that was captured on video by TMZ appeared to recreate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good. Harvey Keitel co-stars as a fellow veteran hired by Trejo\u2019s character to work at the pawn shop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe logline for the film reads: \u201cWhen a Minneapolis riot forces a young ICE officer to complete a high-stakes arrest alone after his partner is killed, he is hunted through the streets by a furious mob intent on freeing the prisoner and punishing anyone who still upholds the law. Barricaded inside a neighborhood pawn shop with a hard-edged Hispanic veteran and the man\u2019s progressive college-age grandson, ordinary men must choose between the rule of law and the chaos that wants to burn it all down in a modern siege of honor and defiance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTrejo\u2019s rep confirmed his statements but had no further comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danny Trejo has issued his first statement since facing backlash for starring in the pro-ICE Daily Wire movie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[94251,236,368967,88,21021],"class_list":["post-877106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ben-shapiro","tag-celebrities","tag-danny-trejo","tag-entertainment","tag-pawn-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}